This is the most disgusting joke ever told.
A good friend of mine, after hearing it, begged me for the love of mankind never to repeat it.
I have withheld it for lo, these many decades.
I beg you, do not read it.
A cowboy, lost for weeks in the heat of death valley, staggers in to a bar. Sun burnt, dehydrated, lips cracked, throat parched, he croaks out, “Water.”
A brief silence.
With red, crusted eyes, the cowboy spots a spittoon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spittoon
He staggers to it, raises it to his lips, and begins to drink.
Women faint. Strong men gag and turn away.
Still, the cowboy drinks.
The bartender cries out, “Stop. You can have water, cold beer, coffee, anything. Free. For the love of God, stop!!!
The cowboy keeps drinking.
Finally, with a last sickening slurp, the cowboy finishes, wipes his lips, and collapses on the bar floor. Everyone is too sickened to speak.
The bartender swallows his gorge, and says, “You could have had water, cold beer, anything you wanted, free … why did you keep drinking ... that???”
The cowboy replies, “I had to. Once I started …
[spoiler]…it was all one long strand.”[/spoiler]