“I’m a lawyer.” / “Honest?” / “No, the regular kind.”

“I’m a lawyer.” “Honest?” “No, the regular kind” is a lawyer joke that was posted on the newsgroup alt.bbs.wildcat on February 15, 1996. The joke is that the speaker had meant “Honest?” as in “Really?”, but that the lawyer understood the question to be if he/she is a rare honest lawyer.
     
The joke has also applied to politicians.  “I’m a Tory politician.” — “Honest?” — “No, the regular kind” was posted on Twitter by Redtildead on February 20, 2014. “I’m a Politician.”—“Honest?”—“No, the regular kind” was posted on Twitter by Rofl Republic #TeamKisan on March 8, 2014.
   
       
Google Groups: alt.bbs.wildcat 
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Scott Leighton
Feb 15, 1996, 3:00:00 AM
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* QMPro 1.53 * “I’m a lawyer.” “Honest?” “No, the regular kind.”
   
Google Groups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Boy am I glad I found this place… 😉
Jeff Mercer
Mar 13, 1996, 3:00:00 AM
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.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) : “I’m a lawyer.”
Jeff The Riffer : “Honest?”
Drifter… : “No, the regular kind.”
Homo Postmortemus :
 
Google Groups: alt.humor
Lawyers
Keith Sullivan
Dec 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM
to McHaw List Keith’s
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WHICH KIND?
Two small boys, not yet old enough to be in school, were overheard talking at the zoo one day.
“My name is Billy. What’s yours?” asked the first boy.
“Tommy,” replied the second.
“My Daddy’s an accountant. What does your Daddy do for a living?” asked Billy.
Tommy replied, “My Daddy’s a lawyer.”
“Honest?” asked Billy.
“No, just the regular kind,” replied Tommy.
 
Google Groups: rec.humor
Honest Lawyers & Duck Hunting
Jokes4You
Apr 26, 2000, 3:00:00 AM
URL: http://jokes4you.net/
AOL: Jokes4You
*** Honest Lawyer? ***
Two small boys were overheard talking at the zoo one day.
“My name is Billy. What’s yours?” asked the first boy.
“Tommy,” replied the second.
“My Daddy’s an accountant. What does your Daddy do for a living?” asked Billy.
Tommy replied, “My Daddy’s a lawyer.”
“Honest?” asked Billy.
“No, just the regular kind,” replied Tommy.
         
Twitter
Russell D. Mayer
@russmayer
“My dad’s an accountant,” says Billy. “What’s your dad do?”
“He’s a lawyer,” Tommy answers
“Honest?” says Billy
“No, just the regular kind.”
10:52 AM · Feb 24, 2009·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
ILL, Uninsured, IL
@illil
Boy: My daddy is a health-insurance executive. Girl: Honest? Boy: No, just the regular kind. #jokes
1:00 PM · Jul 6, 2009·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Douglas Reimann
@dgvreiman
Replying to @ThinBlueLine614 and @BigBobDC68
Like the old joke:  “What does your Dad do?”
“He’s a Dem Congressman.”
“Honest!”
“Naw, just the regular kind.”
2:25 AM · Nov 17, 2018·Twitter Web App
   
Twitter
Harsh Goenka
@hvgoenka
I: What do you do for a living?
Friend: I’m a politician?
I: Honest?
Friend: No, no, the regular kind.
10:34 AM · Mar 14, 2019·Twitter for iPad
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/superfuzzycat December 27, 2020
A man meets an attractive woman in a bar and tells her, “You know, I’m a lawyer.”
“Honest?” the woman asks.
“No, no. Just the regular kind,” he replied.