Need help finishing a joke.

I’ve had this unfinished joke rolling around in my head for years. If the teeming masses can’t finish it, then all is lost.

A man walked into a pub with a with his dog. The two sat down at the bar. The man noticed that the bartender was blind, and after marveling at the bartender’s abilities, thought nothing more of it.

While motioning to his dog, the man said, “I’ll take a Scotch neat but my bitch is fine.” The bartender was momentarily stunned that the man would call what the bartender thought was the man’s date, a “bitch”, but over the years he’d heard worse. He served the man, and after finishing his drink, the man paid and the two left.

The next day the man returned to the pub carrying a well-worn gym bag. Inside the bag was a month’s worth of old dirty sweat socks, so it was putting out a pretty good stench. He sat down at the bar and said to the bartender, “I’ll take a Scotch neat and do you mind if my old bag stays in the corner? She’s putting out a pretty good stink. Shouldn’t bother anyone over there.”

“Old bag?!? Stench?!?”, the bartender thought. Again thinking that the man was referring to a date, he subdued a seething desire to punch the man right then and there. After the moment of shock, the bartender hesitantly said, “Uh…sure.” and served up the Scotch. Within minutes the man had finished his drink, paid, retrieved his bag and left.

*The third day the man returned with a hot date. The two sat down at the bar and the man called to the bartender. *

Ok, that’s as far as I’ve ever gotten. How does it end? If you want to change his “dates” or any details, go 'head.

P.S. (Please…it’s a joke, not a philosophical discussion of the physically challenged. If you take offense, I’ll apologize now.):smack:

The bartender replies “I’m right on it sir, a good bartender knows his customers…A scotch neat, and nothing for the stupid bitch.”

Either that or he says “Imagine that, a talking dog”

This sounds like one of those comedy sketches that has potential but the writers don’t know how to end it.

You could take the Monty Python approach and have a huge, Terry Gilliam-esque foot come down and squish everyone in the bar, or something like that. :slight_smile:

He says, “I’ll take my usual, and a screwdriver for her,” to which the bartender replies, “the screwdriver for the lady is on the house.”

“Why?” asks the man. “Because she got you to leave your mangy mutt and dirty laundry at home.”

And the blind bartender says, “You want a scotch to go with your fish?”

What piece of trash have you dragged into the bar tonight, Madam?

Bartender, I’ll have my usual!

*The bartender replies “Oh yes, sir, coming right up. Let me make sure I have it right. You’ll take a scotch, neat; and nothing for the smelly old bitch?”

The problem is that the setup is too labored. No one (that I’ve ever encountered) calls a dog a bitch, and no one would refer to their gym bag as “my smelly old bag” and “she”. Also, I think it’s easier to think of a punchline, and then construct the joke around it.