Pat and Mick were walking down the village street when they met the priest.

"Hello there boys", says the father.

"Hello father" they reply.

"Are you doing anythin today?"

"No father"

"I wonder if you could do a little job for me?"

'Sure we will father".

" The flagpople outside the church is rotted out could you measure it so we can order a new one?"

"We will that father"

Arriving at the churchyard they survey the pole trying to decide how to do the job.

"Ill tell you what Pat, I'll shin up the pole with a tape measure, and, when I get to the top you hold the tape against the bottom".

They borrow a tape from the bloke next door and Mick commences the climb. He has hardly gone ten feet and is making heavy weather of when Murphy come along.

"What you up to boys" says Murphy.

"We are measuring the pole for father O'Donnell" says Pat.

After some consideration Murphy offers the following advice,

"If you take those two bolts out of the base, you can lay it down" says Murph.

The boys consider this for a moment then  Mick says,

"That won't be any good,  tis the height we want not the length!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it!!

Disclaimer

(No disrespect or racial slur intended)

-- Edited by Magnarc on Friday 29th of March 2013 01:12:11 PM

-- Edited by Magnarc on Friday 29th of March 2013 01:12:38 PM