As president of ASTA, I gave a speech to
members of a state seed association in the deep South, where I
identified myself as a seed professional from Buffalo, N.Y.
The speaker who followed me began his remarks with the
following joke:A reporter
driving down the road sees a car ahead suddenly veer off and
stop. The driver jumps out and hops over a fence into a nearby
yard where a dog is attacking a small child. The man and the
dog engage in a mighty struggle in which the man is badly
mauled, the unfortunate dog dies, and the small child is
saved.
The reporter rushes up to tell the
man that he saw the whole thing, took pictures, and intends to
write a story about it for his newspaper. "I can see the
headlines now", he says. " Selma man saves defenseless child
from rabid dog."
No, says the man, I’m not from Selma.
OK. "Alabama man saves child from vicious dog attack" says the
reporter.
No. You don’t understand. I’m from New York.
Next day, banner headlines: YANKEE
KILLS PET DOG
