The Bacon Tree

[Belle]

Back in cowboy times, a westbound wagon train was lost and low on food. No other humans had been seen for days, and then the pioneers saw an old Norwegian sitting beneath a tree.

"Is there some place ahead where we can get food?"

"Vell, I tink so," the old man said, "but I wouldn't go up dat hilll und down de udder side. Somevun tole me you'd run into a big bacon tree."

"A bacon tree?" asked the wagon train leader.

"Yah, n bacon tree. Vould I lie? Trust me. I vouldn't go dere."

The leader goes back and tells his people what the Norwegian said. "So why did he say not to go there?," a person asked. Other pioneers said, "Oh, you know those Norwegian people - they lie just for a joke."

So the wagon train goes up the hill and down the other side. Suddenly, Indians attack them from everywhere and massacre all except the leader who manages to escape and get back to the old Norwegian.

Near dead, the man shouts, "You fool! You sent us to our deaths! We followed your route, but there was no bacon tree, just hundreds of Indians who killed everyone but me."

The old Norwegian man holds up his hand and says, "Vait a minute. "He quickly picks up an English-Norwegian dictionary and begins thumbing through it. "Oof-da, I made such ah big mishtake! It vuzn't a bacon tree,

(Are you ready?)

(Scroll down)

(You're going to hate me.)

It vuz a ham bush."

[dmiller]

Groooaaaaaaannnnn!!! :lol:

[moony3424]

That's sooooooooo baaaaaaaaad!!!

[Ham]

It must be because I'm strange, but I liked it! :lol:

[dmiller]

Some Norwegian medical terms:

Artery...................................................The Study of Paintings

Barium..................................................What you do when CPR Fails

Cesarean Section.................................A District  in Rome

Colic.....................................................A sheep Dog

Coma....................................................A punctuation mark

Congenital............................................Friendly

Dilate................................................... To live long

Fester...................................................Quicker

G.I. Series............................................Baseball games between teams of soldiers

Grippe..................................................A suit case

Hangnail...............................................A Coat hook

Medical Staff.......................................A doctor's cane

Morbid.................................................A higher offer

Nitrate..................................................Lower than day rates

Node.....................................................Was aware of

Outpatient............................................A person who has fainted

Post Operative.....................................A letter carrier

Protein..................................................In favor of young people

Secretion............................................. Hiding something

Serology.............................................. Study of English Knighthood

Tablet...................................................A small table

Tumor...................................................More than one

Urine.....................................................Opposite of you're out

Varicose Veins.....................................Veins which are very close together

[WhiteDove]

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