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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: State troopers
Message-ID: <735@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 14:33:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  6 14:33:52 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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[Did I hear this story on net.jokes?  Or is it one that my old CS 427 buddy
Glenn Currie told me?  Oh well, here goes...]

This is a supposedly true story:

A pretty young thing was stopped for speeding by the Texas Highway Patrol.
When the cowboy-hatted and -booted trooper approached her car, she decided
to try to get out of a ticket by the judicious use of her eyelashes.  Putting
on her best East Texas cute-little-girl drawl, she said to the patrolman
before he could open his mouth, "Oh, officer, I'll bet you just stopped me
because you wanted to sell me tickets to the Highway Patrolmen's Ball."  Not
being taken in, the trooper answered with a sneer, "Lady, highway patrolmen
don't have any balls!"  As the realization of what he had just said slowly
dawned on him, a pink color rose from the collar of his khaki shirt, crept
up his face, around his mirrored sunglasses and disappeared into his hat.
Without another word he turned on his heel, strode to his vehicle and drove
away.
----
Prentiss Riddle
("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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