The Challenge

"At Least They Have Health"*

*Three Irishmen, Paddy, Sean and Shamus,
having left the pub a wee late one night,
found themselves on the road which led
past the old graveyard.

"Come have a look over here," says Paddy,
"it's Michael O'Grady's grave, God bless his soul.
He lived to the ripe old age of 87. Good blood,
those O'Grady's!"

"That's nothing," says Sean. "Here's one named
Patrick O'Toole, it says here that he was 95 when
he died. Aye, those O'Tooles are a hardy bunch, they are!"

Just then, Shamus yells out, "Forget him, here's
a fella that lived to be 145 years old!"

"What was his name?" ask Paddy & Sean.

Shamus stumbles around a bit, awkwardly lights
a match to see what else is written on the stone
marker, and exclaims, "Miles, to Dublin!"

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"The Challenge"*

*A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and clears
his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says,
"I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers.
I'll give $500 American dollars to anybody in here
who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back-to-back."

The room is quiet and no one takes up the Texan's offer.

One man even leaves. Thirty minutes later the same
gentleman who left shows back up and taps the
Texan on the shoulder.

"Is your bet still good?" asks the Irishman.

The Texan says yes and asks the bartender to line
up 10 pints of Guinness.

Immediately the Irishman tears into all 10 of the pint
glasses drinking them all back-to-back.

The other pub patrons cheer as the Texan sits in
amazement. The Texan gives the Irishman the
$500 and says, "If ya don't mind me askin', where
did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?"

The Irishman replies, "Oh... I had to go to the pub
down the street to see if I could do it first."
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