In one of his humor collections, H. Allen Smith told of an Oklahoma sociologist who maintained that the three things a Texan liked the most were: 1) Being seen in church. 2) Sexual gratification 3) Outwitting someone, preferably a close relative, in a business deal. This opinion was formed without the sociologist ever having visited the larger state to the south. After a good deal of work, his colleagues managed to get him to take a trip south for a few days. He did Amarillo, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antone. On the entire trip, he remained pretty quiet about the whole thing. He returned to the (relative) northlands, changed number two to "talking about sexual gratification" and thereafter described that big cowpasture to the south as Baja Oklahoma. _____________________________________________________________________________ A priest was walking down the street one day and he noticed a little boy playing around with battery acid. The priest walked up to the boy and said, "My son, you should not play with that. Battery acid is very dangerous!" The little boy replied, "But it's fun, it does alot of neat things!" The priest told the little boy to play with something more fun, like holy water. The little boy asked the priest, "What's so great about holy water?" "My son," the priest said,"I once rubbed holy water on a woman's stomach once and she passed a baby!" "Ya think that's so great?" the little boy asked. "I once rubbed battery acid on a cat's ass once and he passed a motorcycle." ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Memo To: All Personnel Fm: Headquarters Due to the fact that the two unions involved have been unable to agree upon who shall blow the trumpets, the end of the world has been postponed for another two weeks. GOD G:pn