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A drink for my brothers
M Sneed
Jun 17, 2008

I just got a great joke sent to me by a friend. I had to share.
A cowboy, who is visiting Wyoming from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud. He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, “You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time.”
The cowboy replies, “Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona, the other is in Colorado. When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we’d drink this way to remember the days when we drank together. So I’m drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself.” The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. All the regulars take notice and fall silent. When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, “I don’t want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss.”
The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
“Oh, no, everybody’s just fine,” he explains, “It’s just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking. That hasn’t affected my brothers though.”

SPEAKING OF DRINKING: We’ve all heard the story of country music legend George Jones who was once so drunk and desperate that he took a riding lawnmower to get more booze when his wife hid his keys.
It seems the Possum, got busted for DUI on the mower. Well, not to be outdone, a teenager in England had the same idea. Check this out.

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Teenager-takes-tractor-to-buy.4192113.jp

SIGNS OF THE TIMES: I go into other offices all the time. It’s amazing to see what some people print and stick on the wall.
Here are a couple I spotted around Culpeper in recent days.
“Due to the recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
“A Memo from management: The daily beatings will continue until morale improves.”