A young man graduated from University of Arkansas with a degree in
journalism. His first assignment for the newspaper who hired him was to
write a human interest story.
Being from Arkansas, he decided to go into the back country to do his
research. He went to an old farmer's house way back in the hills,
introduced himself to the farmer and proceeded to explain to him why he
was there.
The young man asked, "Has anything ever happened around here that made
you happy?"
The farmer thought for a minute and said, "Yep! One time one of my
neighbor's sheep got lost. We formed a posse and found it. We all
screwed it and took it back home."
"I can't print that!" the young man exclaimed. "Can you think of
anything else that happened that made you or a lot of other people
happy?"
After another moment, the farmer said, "Yeah, one time my neighbor's
wife, a good looking woman, got lost. We formed a big posse that time
and found her. After we all screwed her, we took her back home."
Again, the young man said, "I can't print that either. OK then, how
about this? Has anything ever happened around here that made you sad?"
The old farmer dropped his head as if he were ashamed. After a few
seconds, he looked up timidly at the young man and said, "I got lost
once."
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