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A Redneck Christmas Joke

A salesman was traveling through a small Southern town which featured an extravagant "Nativity Scene". It was apparent that a lot of skill and talent had gone into creating it. There was one small feature that bothered the salesman enough to make him stop to get a better look. Inexplicably, the three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets. Totally unable to come up with a reason for the helmets, the salesman shook his head and continued down the road.

Running low on gas, the man refueled at a "Quick Stop" on the edge of town. When he finished paying for his purchases he asked the lady behind the counter about the helmets. She exploded in a rage, yelling at the poor guy, "You Yankees never do read the Bible!" The salesman assured her that he did, but simply couldn't recall reading anything about firemen in the Bible.

She jerked her Bible from behind the counter and ruffled through some pages, and finally jabbed her finger at a passage. Sticking it in right in the guys face, she said in her native Southern drawl, "See, it says right here, 'The three wise men came from afar.'"