Bubba and the Lake ...
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> Bubba had long heard the stories of an amazing family
>tradition.
>It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been
>able to walk on water on their 21st birthday. On that special day, they'd
>each walked across the lake to the bar on the far side for their first
>legal
>drink.
>
> So when Bubba's 21st birthday came a round, he and his pal
>Billy Joe Bob took a boat out to the middle of the lake, Bubba stepped out
>of the boat ..... and nearly drowned! Billy Joe Bob just barely managed to
>pull him to safety. Furious and confused, Bubba went to see his
>grandmother.
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> 'Grandma,' he asked, 'it's my 21st birthday, so why can't I
>walk
>'cross the lake like my pappy, his father, and his father before him?'
>
> Granny looked deeply into Bubba's troubled eyes and said,
>'Because your father, your grandfather and your great grandfather were born
>in January, when the lake is frozen, and you were born in July, you
>dumbas$.
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