> > > > Subject: Texan > > > A Texan is drinking in a New York bar, when he gets a call on his cell > phone. He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, and orders a round of drinks > for everybody in the bar because, he announces, his wife has just > produced a typical Texas baby boy weighing 25 pounds. > > Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the > Texan just shrugs, "That's about average down home, Folks. Like I said,"My > boy's a typical Texas baby boy." > > Congratulations showered him from all around, and many exclamations of > "WOW"! were heard. One woman actually faints due to sympathy pains. > > Two weeks later, he returns to the bar. The bartender says, "Say, you're the > father of that typical Texas baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth. > Everybody's been makin' bets about how big he'd be in two weeks. We > were gonna call you. So...how much does he weigh now?" > > The proud father answers, "Seventeen pounds." > > The bartender is puzzled, and concerned. "What happened? He already weighed > 25 pounds the day he was born." > > The Texas father takes a slow swig from his long-neck Lone Star beer, wipes > his lips on his says, "Had him circumcised." >
