by can't sit still » Tue May 04, 2010 7:06 pm
> A young
>cowboy from Wyoming goes off to college. Half way through
>the semester,
he has foolishly squandered
> all his money. He calls home.
>
> "Dad," he
> says, "You won't believe what modern education is
> developing! They actually
have a program here in Laramie
> that will teach our dog, Ol ' Blue how to talk!"
>
>"That's amazing," his Dad says. "How do I get Ol'
>Blue in that program?"
>
>"Just send him down here with $1,000" the young cowboy
>says. "I'll get him in the course."
>
>So, his father sends the dog and $1,000.
>
>About two-thirds of the way through the semester,
>the money again runs out.
The boy calls home.
>
>"So how's Ol' Blue doing son?" his father
> asks.
>
>"Awesome, Dad, he's talking up a storm," he says,
>"but you just won't believe this -
they've had such good
> results they have started to teach the animals how to
> read!"
>
>"Read!?" says his father, "No kidding! How do we
>get Blue in that program?"
>
> "Just send $2,500, I'll get him in
>the class."
>The money promptly arrives. But our hero has a problem.
>At the end of the year,
his father will find out the dog can
> neither talk, nor read. So he shoots the dog.
>
>When he arrives home at the end of the year, his
>father is all excited. "Where's Ol' Blue?
I just can't wait to see him read
> something and talk!"
>
>"Dad," the boy says, "I have some grim news. Yesterday
>morning, just before
we left to drive home, Ol' Blue
> was in the living room, kicked back in the recliner,
reading the Wall Street Journal, like he
> usually does. Then he turned to me and asked,
"So, is your daddy still messing around
> with that little redhead who lives down the
> street?"
>
>The father exclaimed, "I hope you shot that son of
>a bitch before he talks
to your Mother!"
>
>" I sure did, Dad!"
>
>"That's my boy!"
>
> The kid went on to law school, and now serves
>in Washington D.C. as a Congressman.
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