I learned a great joke from a drunk gu y in a pub when I was traveling in Scotland last summer. I was in a tiny little town and went into the pub for a pint. As I sat and drank, I couldn't help but notice a man at the other end of the bar who was completely drunk even though it was early in the day. When he suddenly looked up, making eye contact with me and catching me staring, I quickly went back to my beer, but it was too late. All the way across the bar, he yelled at me.
"You! You see this bar?", he shouted. "I built this bar. I built it with my own two hands. Took me damn near a week. But to they call me McManus the Bar-Builder? No!"
Needless to say, I was a bit embarrassed, but nobody else in the pub seemed to be paying attention to the drunk, so I just decided to mind my own business. I drank my beer and read my Lonely Planet for a while, and when I looked up again, the drunk was staring at me , glaring angrily as if I'd done something wrong. Again, he shouted.
"You! You come with me!", he shouted as he went for the door. I looked at the bartender, but he merely shrugged and gave me a little nod as if to say "good luck." So I went out the front door, and there was the drunk, leaning leaning against an ornate iron gate and fence the went around the whole pub. "You see this fence? I made this fence. I made it with my own to hands. Took me damn near a month. But do they call me McManus the Fence-Builder? No!"
I smiled and nodded, not knowing what to say, hoping there was a way I get out of this situation without fighting drunken McManus. While he was distracted and muttering to himself, I made for the door, and just as I was heading back into the pub, I heard him yell again. "You!" Mortified, I looked at the bartender to save me, but he just shook his head, as if to say "you're on your own."
McManus shouted, "Come over here!" He was outside the gate in the middle of the road, and when I got to him, he pointed into the distance at a gracefully arched stone bridge that took the road across a picturesque stream. He said, "Do you see that bridge? I built that bridge. I built it with my own two hands. Took me nigh on half a year. But do they call me McManus the Bridge-Builder? No! But you fuck ONE sheep..."