West Virginia Baby

[Karl/Pa.]

A West Virginia University fan is drinking in a New York bar, when he gets a call on his cell phone.

He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, and orders a round of drinks for everybody in the bar, announcing his wife has just given birth to a typical West Virginia baby boy weighing 25 pounds .

Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the West Virginia fan just shrugs and replies, That's about average back home, folks, like I said, my boy's a typical West Virginia baby boy. “He’s gonna be a West Virginia University football player."

Congratulations showered him from all around, amid many exclamations of "WOW!"

One woman actually fainted due to sympathy pains. Two weeks later, he returns to the bar.

The bartender says, Say, aren't you the father of that typical West Virginia baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth? Everybody's been making bets about how big he'd be in two weeks.

So, how much does he weigh now? The proud father answers, "Seventeen pounds.

The bartender is puzzled, concerned and a little suspicious. What happened? He already weighed 25 pounds the day he was born!

The West Virginia father takes a slow swig of his beer, wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says, "Had him circumcised."