What's the difference between an epileptic corn farmer from Iowa and a prostitute with dysentery?
---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:25:16 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Question? > > Then the farmer got older & decided to make his will, leaving everything to > his 3 children. One child was very involved in raising the horses, so the > farmer left that child 1/2 the horses. Another child showed some interest in > the horses, so the farmer left that child 1/3 of the horses. The last > child showed no interest in the horses, but the farmer wanted to > encourage interest, so left that child 1/9 of the horses. > When the farmer died the children got together to divide up the horses > which by then numbered 17 beautiful horses. The children could not figure out > how to do this so they contacted the lawyer who wrote the will. He mounted > his old nag & rode over. When he arrived he added his nag to the others to > bring the total to 18. The first child took their 1/2 share which was 9 > horses, the second child took 6 horses & the last 2 horses. > Then the lawyer rode his nag home. > Craig > > > > > [Marsha] I like this Zen story... > > --- > > A farmer's horse ran away. His neighbors gathered upon hearing the > news and said sympathetically, "That's such bad luck." > > "Maybe," the farmer replied. > > The horse returned on his own the next morning, and brought seven > wild horses with it. "Look how many more horses you have now," the > neighbors exclaimed. "How lucky!" > > "Maybe," the farmer replied. > > The next day, the farmer's son attempted to ride one of the wild > horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. "How awful," the neighbors > said. "It looks like your luck has turned for the worse again." > > The farmer simply replied, "Maybe." > > The following day, military officers came to town to conscript young > men into the service. Seeing the son's broken leg, they rejected him. > The neighbors gathered round the farmer to tell him how fortunate he was. > > "Maybe," said the farmer. The farmer shucks between fits. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Groups: Create an online spot for your favorite groups to meet. http://windowslive.com/online/groups?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_groups_032009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
