Tough Talking Cowboy

"Emotional Extremes"*

*The aspiring psychiatrists from various colleges
were attending their first class on emotional extremes.

"Just to establish some parameters," said the
professor, to the student from the University
of Houston, "What is the opposite of joy?"

"Sadness," said the UH student.

"And the opposite of depression?" he asked of
the young lady from the University of Texas.

"Elation," said she.

"And you sir," he said to the young man from
 Texas AM, "how about the opposite of woe?

"The Aggie replied, "Sir, I believe that would be giddy-up."

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"Tough Talking Cowboy"*

*A cowboy rode into town and stopped at the saloon
for a drink. Unfortunately, the locals always had a
habit of picking on newcomers. When he finished, he
found his horse had been stolen.

He comes back into the bar, handily flips his gun into
the air, catches it above his head without even looking
and fires a shot into the ceiling. "Who stole my horse?"
he yelled with surprising forcefulness.

No one answered.

"I'm gonna have another beer and if my horse ain't back
outside by the time I'm finished, I'm gonna do what I
dun back in Texas and I don't want to have to do what
I dun back in Texas!"

Some of the locals shifted restlessly.

He had another beer, walked outside, and his horse was
back! He saddled up and started to ride out of town.

The bartender wandered out of the bar and asked, "Say
partner, what happened in Texas?"

The cowboy turned back and said, "I had to walk home!"
Received on Sun Jan 24 15:33:29 2010