My dad had great 'shaggy dog stories'. Came close to smacking him upside the head a few times for telling them
This farmer had a problem. Seems his beautiful mare had birds building nests in her flowing mane. This would happen every spring and quite frankly, the farmer was fed up.
He called upon a man who had a fantastic reputation with animals. He could cure anything, fix anything, you name it.
"I just want the birds to go away, not harmed", the farmer told him."Her beatiful mane is getting ruined." So the man set to work.
At the end of the day, the farmer went to check on the man's progress and noticed all the birds were gone, but he smelled......bread.
He asked the man,"Fantastic!!! Not only are the birds all gone, but her mane is beautiful again! But, why do I smell bread?"
The miracle-worker, never looking up as he packed his bags, simply responded, "Yeast".
"Yeast???" the farmer asked in shock.
wait....
here it comes....
"Yes, I applied yeast to her mane. As you can plainly see for yourself, Yeast on beast, the nest is at rest and never the mane shall tweet".
For those of you who don't know the saying being so viciously twisted:
East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet