THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

This Irish fella on a building site has a brand new pair of crocodile boots. Good, hard-wearing boots they are.  He says, well, I’ve never had a pair of boots like these in my life.  So he goes back to the shop and says, I could do with another pair of them boots.  The shopkeeper says, no, they’re crocodile boots, you can’t get them any more, things are bad.  The Irish fella says, where’d you get them? South Africa.  So the Irish fella goes all the way over to South Africa, dives into this big river, wrestles with this crocodile, pulls it out, throws it back in.  His mate says, why’d you throw it back in? The Irish fella says, it’s got no boots on.

Bernard Manning