A young cowboy from Wyoming goes off to college, but half way through the
> semester, he has foolishly squandered all his money.
>
> He calls home. 'Dad,' he says, 'You won't believe what modern education is
> developing! They actually have a program here in Laramie that will teach
> our dog, Ol' Blue how to talk!'
>
> 'That's amazing,' his Dad says. 'How do I get Ol' Blue in that program?'
>
> 'Just send him down here with $1,000' the young cowboy says. 'I'll get him
> in the course.'
>
> So, his father sends the dog and $1,000.
>
> About two-thirds through the semester, the money again runs out. The boy
> calls
>
> home.
>
> 'So how's Ol' Blue doing son,' his father asks.
>
> 'Awesome, Dad, he's talking up a storm,' he says, 'but you just won't
> believe this - they've had such good results they have started to teach
> the animals how to read!'
>
>
>
> 'Read!' says his father, 'No kidding! How do we get Blue in that
> program?'
>
> Just send $2,500, I'll get him in the class.'
>
>
>
> The money promptly arrives. But our hero has a problem. At the end of the
> year, his father will find out the dog can neither talk, nor read. So he
> shoots the dog.
>
> When he arrives home at the end of the year, his father is all excited.
> 'Where's Ol' Blue? I just can't wait to see him read something and talk!'
>
> 'Dad,' the boy says, 'I have some grim news. Yesterday morning, just
> before we left to drive home, Ol' Blue was in the living room, kicked back
> in the recliner, reading the Wall Street Journal, like he usually does.
>
>
>
> Then he turned to me and asked, 'So, is your daddy still messing' around
> with that little redhead who lives in town?'
>
> The father exclaimed, 'I hope you shot that son of a b***h before he talks
> to your Mother!'
>
> 'I sure did, Dad!'
>
> 'That's my boy!'
>
> The kid went on to be a successful lawyer ....... And then he went on to
> become a Congressman .