I'm not giving Kevin a ring. We haven't even been formally introduced - hell, he hasn't even wined me and dined me yet!

So Murphy and O'Brien were arguing as usual on the construction site.

Murphy says "I'll bet you a pint of Guinness I can carry you up to the top of a fifty-foot ladder in me hod."

"A pint? Right, you're on," says O' Brien.

So O'Brien climbs into the hod, and Murphy starts up the ladder.

Slowly, painstakingly, step by step he makes his way up towards the top.

About three feet from the top Murphy's foot slips and he loses his balance. The hod tips over and O'Brien almost falls out, but he hangs on by his fingertips until Murphy regains his balance and finally makes it all the way.

"I won. You owe me a pint." says Murphy.

"Fair enough," says O'Brien, "but you really got me hopes up when your foot slipped!"

Seamus