Mean Dog!

[Bob Wright]

P.S. this is not a true story.

There was a fellow down in southern Mississippi that claimed to have the meanest, toughest dog around. Bragged his dog could whip any dog in the county. Now one hot summer day in southern Mississippi, he and his dog were hanging out at the small store, the dog had a pan of water while the man had a big coke.

Directly a little boy came in for a cold drink, leading a short fat brown dog on a leash.

"What kind of dog is that, boy?" the man asked.

The boy shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know."

The man continued, "Is he tough?"

"I reckon," replied the boy.

"Think he could whup my dog?" the man continued.

The boy shrugged again. "I'll give you five dollars to let him fight," the man badgered.

The boy shrugged, took the five dollar bill and unleashed his dog. The man smugly unleashed his dog and sicced him on the boy's dog.

There was a terrible racket for a minute as the two dogs went at each other. Suddenly the belligerent owner hollered "Call your dog off!" and tugged his badly wounded dog from the fight.

"Boy, what kind of dog is that?!" demanded the stranger.

"Don't know. But before we painted him brown and cut off his tail, he was an alligator." calmly responded the boy.


Bob Wright


(P.S. the P.S. above stands for pre-script.)

 

[contender]

 

[don44]

:lol: :lol:

 

[hdxr750]

Another Good one Bob.

 

[ronto]

Heard the same joke on an episode of Adam-12 with the exception that the alligator was painted yellow and the dog fight was set up in a bar argument between 2 guys. Jim Reed told the joke but Pete Malloy didn't think it was funny...I thought it was and never forgot it. :lol:

 

[Bob Wright]

You just can picture that place: The flat land in piney wood country, a hot day at the intersection of two dirt roads. The store is a small flat roof building with double screen doors, with tin signs on the push plates of the screen doors that advertise "Drink Dr. Pepper" and the clock reading ten, two and four.

Been there!

Bob Wright

 

[whichwatch]

I sure am glad you out the disclaimer in there about this not being a true story.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

You just can picture that place: The flat land in piney wood country, a hot day at the intersection of two dirt roads. The store is a small flat roof building with double screen doors, with tin signs on the push plates of the screen doors that advertise "Drink Dr. Pepper" and the clock reading ten, two and four.

Been there!

Bob Wright

I been to that store, too, Bob! In fact, it was my grandaddy's store in Marion County, Alabama - except the push-pads on the door were Pepsi.

 

[bogus bill]

I was raised in a old general store in a small village in Wisconsin. We had loafer benches outside in summer and chairs around a pot bellied stove in the winter.
My uncle had come home from Washington state and was telling about a lumber camp he worked. Said the frying pan was so big the cook greased it by skating in it with two slabs of bacon tied to his feet. Then one day he fell down! One simple farmer sitting there said oh, ooooh, oooo! Then rest of the guys sitting there laughed at the guy taken in. He got up mad and embarrassed and stomped out. Dad got a little mad at uncle Eldon for losing a good customer.

 

[PAShooter]

My brother told me that joke when he came home from serving in the Air Force. That was in 1963.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

You just can picture that place: a hot day at the intersection of two dirt roads. The store is a small flat roof building with double screen doors, with tin signs on the push plates of the screen doors that advertise "Drink Dr. Pepper" and the clock reading ten, two and four.Bob Wright

This may be a universal memory. When I grew up in rural Iowa, these little stores were all over the place. Out in the middle of essentially nowhere, at the intersection of a couple of gravel roads (we were modern), surrounded on all four quadrants of the intersection with endless fields of corn or soybeans, a little store as mentioned, sometimes with a couple of pumps out front, one regular gasoline and one diesel. It wasn't unusual for these crossroads to have a name, as they very likely were the remains of a tiny hamlet from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Occasionally, there would be an abandoned grain elevator, and the obvious roadbed of a long-since-abandoned railroad spur. Perhaps the skeletal remains of a couple more buildings falling in on themselves. All gone now, plowed under and overgrown by the corn and/or beans. And I miss all that.

 

[Bob Wright]

You just can picture that place: a hot day at the intersection of two dirt roads. The store is a small flat roof building with double screen doors, with tin signs on the push plates of the screen doors that advertise "Drink Dr. Pepper" and the clock reading ten, two and four.Bob Wright

This may be a universal memory. When I grew up in rural Iowa, these little stores were all over the place. Out in the middle of essentially nowhere, at the intersection of a couple of gravel roads (we were modern), surrounded on all four quadrants of the intersection with endless fields of corn or soybeans, a little store as mentioned, sometimes with a couple of pumps out front, one regular gasoline and one diesel. It wasn't unusual for these crossroads to have a name, as they very likely were the remains of a tiny hamlet from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Occasionally, there would be an abandoned grain elevator, and the obvious roadbed of a long-since-abandoned railroad spur. Perhaps the skeletal remains of a couple more buildings falling in on themselves. All gone now, plowed under and overgrown by the corn and/or beans. And I miss all that.

Maybe sort of like this?



Bob Wright

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Bob, that store is way too new and well-kept to be the ones in my memories, and they never had any brick construction, even the front face like that . . . but the concept is the same.

 

[Bob Wright]

Bob, that store is way too new and well-kept to be the ones in my memories, and they never had any brick construction, even the front face like that . . . but the concept is the same.

O.K. no brick, a little older and not so well kept:



Bob Wright

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Yep . . . except perhaps a little better-kept and with all the usual expected advertising signs . . . and a gas pump.

Places had CHARACTER.

 

[Bob Wright]

Yep . . . except perhaps a little better-kept and with all the usual expected advertising signs . . . and a gas pump.

Places had CHARACTER.

............and characters!

Bob Wright

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Yep . . . except perhaps a little better-kept and with all the usual expected advertising signs . . . and a gas pump.

Places had CHARACTER.

............and characters!

Bob Wright

. . . sittin' on the porch, spittin' and whittlin' and gabbin' . . .