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There was once a Irishman and an Englishman who lived next door to each
other. The Irishman owned a hen and each morning would look in his
garden and pick up one of his hen's eggs for breakfast.
One day he looked into his garden and saw that the hen had laid an egg
in the Englishman's garden. He was about to go next door when he saw
the
Englishman pick up the egg. The Irishman ran up to the Englishman and
told him that the egg belonged to him because he owned the hen. The
Englishman disagreed because the egg was laid on his property.
They argued for a while until finally the Irishman said, "In my family
we normally solve disputes by the following actions: I kick you in the
balls and time how long it takes you to get back up, then you kick me
in
the balls and time how long it takes for me to get up, whomever gets up
quicker wins the egg."
The Englishman agreed to this and so the Irishman found his heaviest
pair of boots and put them on, he took a few steps back, then ran
toward
the Englishman and kicked as hard as he could in the balls. The
Englishman fell to the floor clutching his nuts howling in agony for 30
minutes.
Eventually the Englishman stood up and said, "Okay, now it's my turn to
kick you."
The Irishman said, "Keep the damn egg."
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