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Sounds like Arkansas
Many many years ago
when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow
who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She's my grandmother too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!
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An Irishman went to London for a visit to the zoo.
While there, he saw a man with an elephant act. The man
claimed the elephant could look at person and tell that
person's age.
The Irishman was very skeptical and
said so, in no uncertain terms. The man had the
elephant look at a small boy and the elephant stamped
its foot 9 times. "Is that right?" he asked the boy.
"Oh yes." the boy said.
The Irishman was very loud, in his not believing that
this was true. The man asked the elephant to tell the
ages of several people, and each time the elephant
stamped his foot and the people said he was correct.
The Irishman got even louder and more abusive
toward the man. Finally the man could take it no longer
and wagered the Irishman that the elephant could look
at him and tell him his age. The Irishman took him up
on the wager.
The elephant looked real close at the
Irishman, turned around, raised his tail and cut wind
like you wouldn't believe, turned back around and
stomped his foot twice.
Where upon the Irishman stumbled back and with a
sound of disbelief in his voice
cried...................
"BeGabbers, He's Right...Farty-two!"
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