As soon as Tony Blair stepped down as Prime Minister he rang his pal George Bush and said, "Before I go and do for the Middle East what I did for this country, I have a few days off. How do you fancy coming over to Britain and we'll go round Middle England and show the people, we're really just a couple of ordinary good guys!"
"Great!", says George Dubya, "We could dress as your everyday English gents, you know, tweed plus-fours, walking sticks, green wellies, deerstalker hats."
"And a dog," says Blair, "We must have a dog ... a Labrador. We'll take it to some country pubs and blend in with the locals."
"I'm on my way!" says Bush.
So a few hours later, all kitted out and with the requisite Labrador at heel, they set off from London in a westerly direction. Eventually they arrived at just the place they were looking for and found a lovely country pub and, with the Labrador, went in and walked up to the bar.
"Good evening Landlord, may we have two pints of your best ale, from the wood," said Blair.
"Good evening gents," said the landlord, "two pints of best it is coming up"
Blair and Bush stood leaning on the bar drinking their beer and chatting, nodding knowingly now and again to those who came into the bar for a drink. The Labrador lay quietly at their feet.
All of a sudden, the door from the adjacent bar opened and in came a grizzled old shepherd, complete with crook. He walked up to the Labrador, lifted its tail and looked underneath, shrugged his shoulders and walked back to the other bar. A few moments later, in came another old shepherd with his crook. He walked up to the dog, lifted its tail, looked underneath, scratched his head and went back to the other bar.
Over the course of the next hour or so another four or five shepherds came in, lifted the dog's tail and went away looking puzzled.
Eventually Blair and Bush could stand it no longer and called the barman over. "Look," said Blair, "why did all those old shepherds come in and stare under the dog's tail like that? Is it an old country custom?"
"Good Lord, no," said the barman. "it's just that someone has told them that there was a Labrador in this bar with two arseholes."













