Bob and Bubba

Shortly after an Al Quaeda wrecking crew sank their destroyer near the Straits of Hormuz, two gentlemen of the Naval persuasion were floating in their lifeboat awaiting rescue. Bob, from Georgia( and an avowed optimist), found what appeared to be an old fashioned, tarnished brass oil lamp in the survival locker. He vigorously rubbed it and to his amazement, a genie promptly appeared in a cloud of smoke.

Before the two sailors could even say Jack Robinson, he looked at them and said “Hey, you guys are sailors. I only give out one wish to sailors since I got stiffed by that Sinbad joker. What’ll it be?”

Bob, without a second thought,  immediately blurted out, “Turn the entire ocean into beer.”

The genie clapped his hands with a deafening crash, and immediately the sea turned into beer. Just as quickly as he had appeared, the genie departed along with his lamp.

Only the gentle lapping of beer on the hull broke the stillness as the two men stared out and considered their circumstances. Bob’s shipmate Bubba, from South Carolina,  looked disgustedly at the ocean and then back at Bob whose wish had been granted.

After a long, tension-filled moment Bubba said in  a low, measured tone of voice:

 ” Smooth move, Exlax…Now we’re going to have to pee in the boat.”

Bob and Bubba shortly after their rescue