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How Many Sheep Do I Have?

There once was a blonde who was very tired of blonde jokes and insults directed at her intelligence.

So, she cut and dyed her hair, got a make-over, got in her car, and began driving around in the country.

Suddenly, she came to a herd of sheep in the road. She stopped her car and went over to the shepherd who was tending to them.

“If I can guess the exact number of sheep here, will you let me have one?” she asked.

The shepherd, thinking this was a pretty safe bet, agreed.

“You have 171 sheep,” said the blonde in triumph.

Surprised, the shepherd told her to pick out a sheep of her choice.

She looked around for a while and finally found one that she really liked.

She picked it up and was petting it when the shepherd walked over to her and asked, “if I can guess your real hair color, will you give me my sheep back?”

The blonde thought it was only fair to let him try. “You’re a blonde! Now give me back my dog.”

Bottom line blonde took dog thinking this is sheep – punchline is clear enough, person is pretending to be smarter than they are.

Some of the alternative joke start look like:

A farmer named Sid was overseeing his stock in a remote moorland pasture in North Yorkshire When suddenly a brand new BMW advanced towards him out of a cloud of dust The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Rayban sunglasses and YSL tie, Leant out of the window and asked the farmer, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?” Sid looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing stock and calmly answers, “sure,why not?”


Some of the alternative endings look like:

“You`re a Management Consultant”, says the farmer.

“Wow! That`s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”

“No guessing required.” answered the farmer. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don`t know a thing about cows… this is a herd of sheep.”