On 07/08/14 02:03, Champ Herren wrote:
> My daddy once told a joke about a farming community in the midst of a
> drought.  It seems during Sunday service the parson announced a special
> service that evening to gather and pray for rain.  Everyone was nodding and
> murmuring in agreement when a little old man stood up in the back and said,
> "can you all hold off till I get the new roof on my barn finished?"
>

Puts me in mind of the poem "Said Hanrahan":
http://en.wikipedi
a.org/wiki/Said_Hanrahan#The_Poem

Every time I read this old poem, I can hear the voices of the cockies* 
dispensing the wisdom of the land.

Cheers,
Philip

* farmer - see here: 
http://andc.anu.edu.au/australian-words/meanings-
origins?field_alphabet_value=81">http://andc.anu.edu.au/australian-words
/meanings-origins?field_alphabet_value=81