Jokes for the Day: Counting Sheep

[Shin]

A fire started in a pasture near a farm in eastern North Carolina. The fire department from a nearby city was called to put out the fire. The fire proved to be more than the city fire department could handle, so someone suggested that a rural volunteer fire department be called. Though there was doubt they could be of any assistance, the call was made.

Five minutes later, the volunteer fire department arrived in a dilapidated old fire truck.

They drove straight towards the fire and stopped in the middle of the flames! The volunteer firemen all jumped off the truck and frantically started spraying water in all directions. Soon, they had snuffed out the center of the fire, breaking the blaze into two, easily controllable parts.

The farmer was incredibly impressed with the volunteer fire department's work and so grateful that his farm had been spared. The next day he presented the volunteer fire department with a check for $1000.

A local news reporter asked the volunteer fire captain what the department planned to do with the funds. "That should be obvious," responded the captain. . . "The first thing we're gonna do is get the brakes fixed on that there fire truck!"

. . .

Two hunters were dragging their dead deer back to their car. Another hunter approached pulling his along too. "Hey, I don't want to tell you how to do something... but I can tell you that it's much easier if you drag the deer in the other direction. Then the antlers won't dig into the ground... After the third hunter left, the two decided to try it. A little while later one hunter said to the other, "You know, that guy was right. This is a lot easier!"

"Yeah, but we're getting farther from the truck," the other added.

. . .

"Johnnie."

"Yes, teacher."

"If there are twenty sheep in a field, and one gets out through a hole in the fence, how many sheep are left in the field?"

"None, teacher."

"Johnnie, there are still nineteen sheep left in the field. Obviously you need to know your arithmetic better."

"Sorry, teacher, but I'm not wrong now, because I do know sheep!"

                   

[Patricia]

Good ones!    Where is the sheep smilie?

[Maria Margaret]

Funny! I got the first two...would someone care to explain the last one to me? I can be a bit dense at times....  

[Patricia]

If one sheep does something the rest do the same. No mind of their own. Just follow the crowd. 

[Maria Margaret]

Oooooh! Ok, I get it! Thanks, Patricia! Now that joke is a whole lot funnier! 

[Shin]

I remember for a short while I stayed at a small farm, and the fellow there showed me the gates and his livestock. He kept horses.

He opened the gate then drove his tractor through, and asked me to close the gate. I moved to do it, but before I knew it, whoosh, a horse was out of the gate.

He had to go out and coax it back in.

Then he explained if I recall correctly, horses being prey animals whenever they see an opening, they instinctively have to take it. Opening -- out the horse goes. They will not let themselves be boxed in, if the opportunity is there.

With sheep, I expect it's the same, though I know nearly nothing about raising animals I wasn't on the far for too long. And also they instinctively all stay together, so as to be safest in numbers, and out they go. 

I looked up a bit to confirm my memories, it makes me want to read more about horses and sheep.

[Patricia]

Oh, so that is why Lilo is always going through open doors.    Now I understand him a little better.