Bubba and Billy Joe were on vacation, walking downtown, window shopping, and they see a sign on a store which reads, "Suits $5.99 each, shirts $1.99 each, trousers $2.49 each"

     Bubba says to his pal, "Billy Joe, Lookee here! We could buy a whole gob o’ these, take ‘em back to Alabama, sell 'em and make a fortune. Just let me do the talkin', 'cause if they hear your accent, they might think we're ignorant, and not wanna sell that stuff to us.”

Now, I'll talk in a slow Texas drawl so's they don't know we is from Alabama ."

      They go in and Bubba says with his best fake Texas drawl, “I'll take 50 of them suits at $5.99, 100 of them there shirts at$1.99, 50 pairs of them there trousers at $2.39. I'll back up my pickup and...."  

 "The owner of the shop interrupts, "Y'all from Alabama, ain't ya?"  

 "Well...yeah," says a surprised Bubba. "How come y'all knowed that?"  

 

"Because this is a Dry-Cleaners."

I called an old classmate who went on to M.I.T., and asked how he was doing. He replied that at that moment, he was working on “aqua-thermal treatment of ceramics, aluminum and steel under a constrained environment.” I was extremely impressed.  However, upon further inquiry, I learned that he was washing dishes with hot water under his wife's supervision.