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Subject: The farmer's sick horse
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 20:34:44 EST
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This may be offensive to farmers and veternarians.

You HAVE been warned!!!



	Seems there was this farmer who owned the most reliable plow horse
in his whole county.  One day, the horse was acting very listless and just
simply did not pull the plow.  This worried the farmer, who immediately 
called the vet.

	The vet, appraising the situation carefully, came to the conclusion
that the horse was afflicted with a rare, but curable, disease.  He went to
his car, got a bottle of pills and a short piece of tubing.

	"Now, Mr. Dimble," said the vet, " all you have to do is give 
the horse one of these pills every morning, and he should be okay in a coupla 
weeks.  Here's how to do it."

	The vet put one end of the tubing in the horse's bum, placed a pill
in the other end, and blew.  The medicine was to be thusly given.

	"Okay, Mr. Dimble, do you understand this?" asked the vet.  The farmer
nodded and put the equipment in a safe place.

	The next morning, the farmer went to give his horse the medicine.  He
put the tubing in the horse's bum, placed the pill in the other end and blew.
He looked into the tube and, lo and behold, the pill was still there.  He tried
again and again, but to no avail, the pill simply refused to go to its 
designated place.

	All out of breath, he called to his farmhand Zeb.  "Zeb, c'mere and
hep me give this 'ere horse his med'sin."  The farmer showed Zeb the procedure
and he figured Zeb, being a big, strapping [whatever that means] young man,
could adequately do the job.

	Zeb carefully studied the situation, walked around to the front of the 
horse and studied the situation some more.  Then he walked around to the back
of the horse.  He gazed into the tube for a long while.  Then, grasping the
situation fully, Zeb pulled out the tube, turned it around, put it back in
the horse and blew.  He then looked up the tube and said, "Okay, boss, the 
pill's gone."

	The farmer, who was just about gagging up his corn flakes, yelled.
"Dam burnit, Zeb!  What the hell did you turn it around fer?!?"

	Zeb looked calmly at the farmer and replied, "Well, you didn't want
me to get your germs, did ya?"


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Disclaimer:  The perons in this joke were fictitious.  Any similarity to actual
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