A Texan is drinking in a New York bar...

[Oeditpus Rex]

when he gets a call on his cell phone. He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, and orders a round of drinks for everybody in the bar, announcing his wife has produced a typical Texas baby boy weighing 25 pounds.

Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh 25 pounds, but the Texan just shrugs. "That's about average down home, folks. Like I said, my boy's a typical Texas baby boy."

Congratulations showered him from all around, and many exclamations of "Wow!" One woman actually fainted from sympathy labor pains.

Two weeks later, the Texan returns to the bar. The bartender says, "Say, you're the father of that typical Texas baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth. Everybody's been making bets about how big he'd be in two weeks. So how much does he weigh now?"

The proud father answers, "Seventeen pounds."

The bartender is puzzled, concerned, and a little suspicious. "What happened? He already weighed 25 pounds the day he was born!"

The Texan takes a slow swig from his Lone Star beer, wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says, "Had'm circumcised."

:D

[JVS]

1. Genital mutilation is no laughing matter!

;-)