When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.'' So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room.' That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.'' I may have come up with a more acceptable solution, ' suggested Alex.'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?'' Something a little less drastic, ' said Alex. Jeffrey Archer
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When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives. So what are you recommending? That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.

Source: A Prisoner Of Birth

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