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These are things people actually said in court.

Judge: "Well, sir, I have reviewed this case and I've decided to give your wife $775 a week"
Husband: "That's fair, your honor. I'll try to send her a few bucks myself.

Q. What is your date of birth?
A. July Fifteenth
Q. What year?
A. Every year.
Q. What gear were you in at moment of the impact?
A. Gucci sweats and Reeboks
Q. This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A. Yes.
Q. And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A. I forget.
Q. You forget. Can you give us an example of something you've forgotten?
Q. How old is your son, the one living with you?
A. Thirty eight or thirty five. I can't remember which.
Q. How long has he lived with you?
A. Fourty five years.
Q. What was teh first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?
A. He said "Where am I, cathy?"
Q. And why did that upset you?
A. My name is Susan.
Q. And where was the location of the accident?
A. Approximately milepost 499.
Q. And where is milepost 499.
A. Probably between 498 and 500.
Q. Sir, what is your IQ?
A. Well, I can see pretty well, I think.
Q. Did you blow your horn or anything?
A. After the incident?
Q. Before the incident.
A. Sure, I played for 10 years. I even went to school for it.
Q. Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
A. Would you repeat that question please?
Q. The youngest son, the 20 year old, how old is he?
Q. Were you present when your picture was taken?
Q. She had three children, right?
A. Yes.
Q. How many were boys?
A. None.
Q. Were there any girls?
Q. You say the stairs went down to the basement?
A. Yes.
Q. And these stairs, did the go up also?
Q. How was your first marriage terminated?
A. By death.
Q. And by whose death was it terminated?
Q. Can you describe the individual?
A. He was about a medium height and had a beard.
Q. Was this a male or female?
Q. Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition that I sent to your attorney?
A. No this is how I dress when I go to work.
Q. Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A. All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
Q. All your responses must be oral, OK?
A. OK.
Q. What school did you go to?
A. Oral.
Q. Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A. The autopsy started around 8:30 pm.
Q. And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A. No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him.
Q. Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
Q. Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for pulse?
A. No.
Q. Did you check for blood pressure?
A. No.
Q. Did you check for breathing?
A. No.
Q. So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A. No.
Q. How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A. Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q. But could the patient still have been alive nevertheless?
A. Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.