There was this cowboy named Jerry who got himself fired from his job at
the ranch. He was out of
work for a while, then started to get hungry. So he swallowed his pride,
and went to the other ranch
in those parts to ask for work--it was a sheep ranch.
They hired him, of course, not too many cowboys wanted to herd sheep.
The first night he was
there, the other cowboys there woke him up. "Get up, boy," they said.
"It's time for your initiation!"
Initiation! But how bad could it be, he thought to himself. Afterall,
they were a bunch of sheep
tenders!
So they took him out back of the sheep-pen, and he saw all the other
guys lined up waiting. "Go on,"
they said, "Boy, it's time you showed you were a REAL man!"
"Huh?" he said.
"That's right," they said, pointing at the sheep, "Show us you're a real
man."
Oh, no, he thought, they couldn't possibly want him to...but then he
really needed the job. So he
squared his shoulders and went and picked out a sheep. He led it behind
the shed. After a moment,
the other were rewarded by the sounds of, "Baaaah BAAAAH..."
A couple of minutes later the cowboy came back out, buttoning his pants,
to see the other guys all
laughing at him.
Oh, great, he thought, now I've really been had. "So, what?" he said,
"Was I not supposed to screw
the sheep?"
"That's not it," they laughed. "It's just that you picked out an ugly
one."
