Editorial: How smart jokes fool the unwary

Posted on March 15, 2012 |

• Editorial

By Angelo S. Lynn

Here’s a joke circulating on the Internet that prompts a laugh, rings true to some Americans, but is also disconcerting.

It goes like this:

“A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, ‘If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?’

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