by CtrlAltDel » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:20 pm
GOLF LESSONS! (long but great!)
Wife: "George, it's about time that you learned to play golf. That's the game where you chase a ball all over the countryside when you are too old to chase women."
So, George went to see Jones and asked him if he could teach him how to play golf. Here George tells us what he learned about golf.....
Jones said, you've got balls, haven't you? I said, yes but sometimes on a cold morning they're kinda hard to find.
Bring them to the clubhouse tomorrow, he said, and we'll tee off.
What's tee off? I asked.
He said it's a golf term and we have to tee off in front of the clubhouse.
Not for me, I said, you can tee off there if you like but I'll tee off behind the barn somewhere.
No, no, he said, a tee is a little thing about the size of your little finger.
Yeah, I've got one of those, I said.
Well, he said, you stick it in the ground and put your balls on top of it.
I asked, how do play golf sitting down? I always thought you stood up and walked around.
You do, said Jones; you are standing when your ball is on the tee.
Well folks, I thought that was stretching a little thing too far, and I said so.
He said, you got a bag, haven't you?
Of course, I said.
Jones said, your balls are in it, aren't they?
Of course, I said.
Well, can't you open your bag and take one out?
I said, I suppose I could, but damned if I was going to.
He asked if I didn't have a zipper on the bag but I told him no, I am the old fashioned type.
Then he asks me if I know how to hold my club. Well, after 50 years, I should have some sort of idea, and I told him so.
He said take your club in both hands - Folks, I knew right then he didn't know what he was talking about.
Then he said, you swing it over your shoulders. I said, that's not me, that's my brother you're talking about.
He asked me how do you hold your club?
I said, in two fingers.
He said, that wasn't right and got behind me, put both arms around me and told me to bend over and he would show me how.
He couldn't catch me there, because I didn't put in three years in the Navy for nothing.
He said, you hit the ball with your club and it will soar and soar.
I said, I could well imagine.
Then he said, when you are on the green -
What's a green? I asked.
That's where the hole is, he said.
Sure. You're not color blind? I asked.
No, he said, then you take your putter.
What's a putter? I asked.
That's the smallest club made, he said.
That's what I've got - a putter, I said.
With it, he said, you put your ball in the hole.
I corrected, you mean the putter.
He said, the hole isn't big enough for the ball and the putter.
Well, I've seen holes big enough for a horse and wagon.
Then he said, after you make the first hole, you go on to the next seventeen.
He wasn't talking to me. After two holes I'm shot to hell.
You mean, he said, you can't make eighteen holes in one day?
Hell no, I make one hole in eighteen days, besides how do I know I'm in the 18th hole?
He said, the flag will go up.
That would be just my luck.
Happy golfing!
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