A Texan 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 because, he announces, his wife has just produced a
baby boy weighing 15 pounds.

Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 15 pounds, but the
Texan just shrugs, "That's about average down home, folks. Like I said, "My
boy's a typical Texas baby boy." Congratulations showered him from all
around, and many exclamations of "WOW!" were heard. One woman actually
faints due to sympathy pains.

Two weeks later, he returns to the bar. The bartender says, "Say, you're the
father of that typical Texas baby that weighed 15 pounds at birth, aren't
you? Everybody's been makin' bets about how big he'd be in two weeks. We
were gonna call you. So... How much does he weigh now?" The proud father
answers, "11 pounds." The bartender is puzzled, and concerned. "What
happened? He weighed 15 pounds the day he was born!

The Texas father takes a slow swig from his long-neck Lone Star beer, wipes
his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says,
"Had him circumcised