A silly tail?

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Subject: A silly tail

Tony Blair called Gordon Brown into his office one day and said,
'Gordon, I have a great
idea! We are going to go all out to win back Middle England'.

'Good idea PM, how will we go about it?' said Brown.

'Well' said Blair 'we'll get ourselves two of those long Barbour
coats, some proper wellies'
a stick and a flat cap, Oh and a Labrador. Then we'll really look
the part. We'll go to a
nice old country pub, In Much Something or other or one of those
villages and We'll show
we really enjoy the Countryside.'

'Right PM' said Brown.'

So a few days later, all kitted out and with the requisite Labrador
at heel, they set off
from London in a westerly direction.

Eventually they arrived at just the place they were looking for and
found a lovely country
pub and, with the dog, went in and up to the bar.

'Good evening Landlord, may we have two pints of your best ale, from
the Wood said Blair.

Good evening Prime Minister' said the landlord,' two pints of best
it is, coming up'.

Blair and Brown stood leaning on the bar drinking their beer and
chatting, nodding now
and again to those Who came into the bar for a drink. The dog lay
quietly at their feet.

All of a sudden, the door from the adjacent bar opened and in came a
grizzled old
shepherd, complete with crook. He walked up to the Labrador, lifted
its tail
and looked underneath, shrugged his shoulders and walked back to the
other bar.

A few moments later, in came another old shepherd with his crook. He
walked up
to the dog, lifted it's tail, looked underneath, scratched his head
and went back to the other bar.

Over the course of the next hour or so another four or five
shepherds came in, lifted the
dog's tail and went away looking puzzled.

Eventually Blair and Brown could stand it no longer and called the
barman over.

'Tell me' said Blair, 'why did all those old shepherds come in and
look under the
dog's tail like that? Is it an old custom?'

'Good Lord no,' said the barman. 'Its just that someone has told
them that there was a Labrador in this bar with two ars*holes'!