The barman heard the hiccups and went for the quicker cure. Once they stopped, the man didn’t need the water.
A man walks into a pub and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says thank you and walks out. Why?
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He wasn’t thirsty.
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He had hiccups, and the fright cured them
Source: Agnes Rogers, How Come?, 1953