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Alligator Shoes
An Army Officer was on holiday in the depths of Florida, where
he
tried to buy some Alligator shoes. However, he was not prepared
to
pay
the high prices. After failing to haggle the vendor down to a
reasonable price level, he ended up shouting, "I don't give
too hoots
for your shoes. I'll go out and kill my own alligator!" To
which the
shop keeper replied, "By all means, just watch out for the
two Marines
who are doing the same thing!"
So the Army Officer went out into the swamp. After a while he saw
two men with spears, standing in the water. "They must be
the two
Marines" he thought.
Just at that point he noticed an alligator moving in the water
towards
one of them. The Marine stood completely passive, as the gator
came
even closer to him. Just as the beast was about to swallow the
one
Marine, the other struck home with his spear and wrestled the
alligator up
onto the beach, where several others already laid.
Together the two Marines threw the gator onto his back,
where-upon one
exclaimed, "Damn! This one doesn't have any shoes
either."
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