by Dreamer » Mon Feb 10, 2003 2:15 am
One Groaner deserves another
An Irishman went to London for a visit to the circus. While
there, he saw a man with an elephant act. The man claimed
the elephant could look at a person and tell that person's
age.
The Irishman was very skeptical and said so, in no uncertain
terms.
The man had the elephant look at a small boy and the
elephant stamped its foot 9 times.
"Is that right?" he asked the boy.
"Yes, I'm nine!" the boy said.
The Irishman continued his loud heckling, still not believing
that this was true. The man asked the elephant to tell the
ages of several other people, and each time the elephant
stamped his foot and the people said he was correct.
The Irishman got even louder and more abusive toward the
man. Finally the man could take it no longer and wagered the
Irishman that the elephant could look at him and tell him his
age. The Irishman took him up on the wager.
The elephant looked real close at the Irishman, turned
around, raised his tail and cut wind like you wouldn't believe.
Then he turned back around, knocked the Irishman to the
ground with his trunk and then stomped on him twice.
The Irishman, crumpled and bleeding, staggered back to his
feet and with a sound of disbelief in his voice cried,
"Mother of Mary, he's right! Farty-two!"
"I can't be in your shoes, But I can be by your side.. and hold your hand in friendship."
-Scott Goober, (Boston Public)