A young man graduated from University of Dublin with a degree
in journalism. His first assignment for the newspaper who hired him
was to write a human interest story. Being an Irish lad, he went
back to the country to do his research. He went to an old farmer's
house way back in the hills, introduced himself to the farmer and
proceeded to explain to him why he was there. The young man
asked, "Has anything ever happened around here that made you
happy?"

The farmer thought for a minute and said, "Yep! One time one of
my neighbour's sheep got lost. We formed a posse and found it. We
all screwed it and took it back home."

"I can't print that!" the young man exclaimed. "Can you think of
anything else that happened that made you or a lot of other people
happy?"

After another moment, the farmer said, "Yeah, one time my
neighbour's daughter, a good looking girl, got lost. We formed a big
posse that time and found her. After we all screwed her, we took
her back home."
Again, the young man said "I can't print that either. Has anything
ever happened around here that made you sad?"

The old farmer dropped his head as if he were ashamed and after a
few seconds looked up timidly at the young man and said, "Well, I got
lost once."