April 09, 2004

Apr. 9, 2004

A cowboy walks into a bar and orders a whisky. When the bartender delivers the drink, the cowboy asks, "Where is everybody?"

The bartender replies, "They've gone to the hanging."

"Hanging? Who are they hanging?"

"Brown Paper Pete," the bartender replied.

"What kind of a name is that?" the cowboy asked.

"Well," says the bartender, "he wears a brown paper hat, brown paper shirt, brown paper trousers and brown paper shoes."

"How bizarre," said the cowboy. "What are they hanging him for?"

"Rustling," answered the bartender.

A bonus:

HISTORY of TELECOMMUNICATIONS After digging to a depth of 100m last year, Russian scientists found traces of copper wiring dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.

So as not to be outdone, in the weeks that followed, American scientists dug 200m, and headlines in the US newspapers read: "US scientists have found traces of 2000 year old optical fibres, and have concluded that their ancestors already had advanced high-tech digital telephone 1000 years earlier than the Russians."

One week later, the Irish press reported the following: "After digging as deep as 500m, Irish scientists have found absolutely nothing. They have concluded that 5000 years ago, their ancestors were already using mobile phones.

Posted by notGeorge at April 9, 2004 09:20 AM | TrackBack
Comments

That's just bad.

Posted by: Owen at April 9, 2004 10:10 AM

Ouch. Twice.

Posted by: Jim at April 9, 2004 01:46 PM

Heh. My mom e-mailed me that one right after 9/11 and I liked it so much I actually shared it around by e-mail. Right after 9/11.

I don't think even Letterman was back to telling jokes by then.

I did get flamed for it, but in fun.

I think.

Posted by: McGehee at April 10, 2004 10:16 AM

*groan*

Posted by: Susie at April 10, 2004 10:39 AM

good one! Hang 'em high! (Check out my audio experiment on my post!)

Posted by: OLDCATMAN at April 10, 2004 03:29 PM

Since he wears everything paper, burning him might be more appropriate. Ouch! and double Ouch!

Posted by: bayibhyap at April 11, 2004 04:33 AM

*Groaning*...Oh Gawd...
That was so bad, it was great!
lmao....

Posted by: Stevie at April 20, 2004 01:57 PM