The legislative body of people are all sleeping in a bed as someone is speaking. They are not taking what the speaker is saying seriously.
Having beds to sleep on in a government building is absurd.
Why are the legislators in bed with each other?
O.K., counsellor, we heard your argument. Now tell us a story.
scene: a courtroom description: The legislative body of people are all sleeping in a bed as someone is speaking. They are not taking what the speaker is saying seriously. uncanny: Having beds to sleep on in a government building is absurd. entities: Corruption, Legislation. caption: O.K., counsellor, we heard your argument. Now tell us a story.
If the supreme court justices were all trying to go to bed, they might request a bed-time story. This is funny in part because the lawyer, whose job it is to make precise legal arguments, is now being officially called upon to tell the justices a bedtime story. This implies that his argument wasn't really important, and that the justices just wanted to go to sleep.