The scene would then be accompanied by a song, beginning " He used to be a caveman ...," showing Keyrock in animal skins beating a club against his hand, "... but now he's a lawyer!

The running gag was that Keyrock would speak in a highly articulate and smoothly self-assured manner to a jury or an audience about how things in the modern world supposedly " frighten and confuse " him.

The scenes would usually end with a small " outro " scene of " a sneak peek at the next episode " showing Keyrock making arguments.

One such scene diverted from the usual " caveman argument " when a tipsy Keyrock was aboard a plane, being told by a stewardess that the chief steward has declared no more Dewar's and water would be served to Keyrock.

Keyrock, known as " The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer ," was a recurring character created by Jack Handey and played by Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live from 1991 through 1996.

The jury or counsel is invariably swayed by Keyrock's argument, except every time the Judge announces the verdict in his favor, Keyrock is distracted by some other event like watching a Knicks game on his portable TV (" I'm sorry, Your Honor, I was distracted by the tiny people in this magic box "), or by a cell phone call, and the verdict has to be repeated.

" What happened afterward remained to be seen, but it was one of the few cases Keyrock did not have his way.

An enraged Keyrock then roared " Listen up, I will sue you and your whole crummy airline!

Keyrock became a defense and personal injury lawyer and, in a later sketch, a politician running for President on the platform of eliminating the capital gains tax.

knowing that its ageless mass would always dwarf the short span of time allotted to any man.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.

With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

Out of Saxony rode the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, one of the Czarina's cousins and a lieutenant general in her armies, a frank, sensitive, popular soldier whose kindnesses Littlepage would `` always recall with the sincerest gratitude ''.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

I would have liked the town and the busyness of its people but I always followed Lilly into the peace of the silent and unstaring road.

The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.

Perhaps the moralities of world law are not advanced by stealing American diplomatic papers and planes, but the Kennedy administration can always file a demurrer to the effect that, but for its own incompetence in protecting American interests, these things would not happen.

The three would never meet again, but for some reason or other Mr. Podger was sure he would always remember the incident.

She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Its elimination would result in the saving of interest costs, heavy when short-term money rates are high, and in freedom from dependence on credit which is not always available when needed most.

I am sure that the engineer who enters management is nearly always opening the door to greater possibilities than he would have as a technical specialist -- because of his wider accountability ''.

It was not always easy to develop theory and doctrine which would square the two conditions.

We always thought we would die with our boots on.

Overwhelming Russian naval power would always be within a few hundred miles of our coast.

The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.

And He laid down for him certain conditions: so that, if he kept the command of God, then he would always remain as he was, that is, immortal ; ;

But she was learning that so long as she was in this country, and wore civilian dress in the Club, there would always be transient young men who would approach her with broken English.

This deprived him of liberty in Hong Kong, but he told Boats McCafferty that Hong Kong was a book he had read before, and the Navy would always bring him there again, some day.

Once and for all he'd finish this marine who would not die.

After I would finish playing the songs, he'd just go away without a comment.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

He wondered if the audience would let him finish.

Sometimes they wanted a little alteration, sometimes none ; sometimes the lines needed in order to make a complete poem would come later, spontaneously or with ' a little coaxing '; sometimes he had to sit down and finish the poem with his head.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

The Orioles would finish second in the American League.

Interestingly, Kile would go on to finish fifth in voting for the Cy Young Award the following year, as he had in 1997 ( the year before he joined the Rockies ).

" We'd finish shooting at about 6 am and I'd just be going to sleep at 7 when the sun would be coming up.

Essendon would finish 2008 in 12th position on the AFL ladder with 8 wins and 14 losses.

Fulham's first season in Division Two turned out to be the highest that the club would finish for twenty-one years, until in 1927 – 28 when the club were relegated to the 3rd Division South, created in 1920.

Then, not long before the finish, the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ), organizers of the Le Mans event, informed Ford that the geographical difference in starting positions would be taken into account at a close finish – meaning that the McLaren / Amon vehicle, which had started perhaps behind the Hulme-Miles car, would have covered slightly more ground over the 24 hours and would therefore be the winner.

The " PFFT " would be done as " blowing a raspberry ", and occasionally, they would break up into laughter after the " PFFT ", unable to finish the song ( Who got spat upon during the " PFFT " would change each show.

Scott would finish the season with an 18 – 10 record and a Cy Young Award.

Behind an improved defense the team would finish 7 – 9 in 1983, but it would be their last season in Baltimore.

Sometimes an exaggerated finish, pulling the hands further up the chest than would be possible on water, is used.