Thgis is one of my brother's favorite stories:

So this stranger walks into the tavern with this really ugly looking flat yellar dog and he says, "My dog can whup any dog in town and I'll match any bet two to one!" Well, it wasn't long before someone showed up with a mangy German Shepard mutt and the flat yellar dog made mincemeat out of him with one snap. Next was some kind of bulldog/dalmatian cross and the flat yellar dog soon made shoestrings of him. The last to be dragged in was a massive Rottwiller/Doberman who managed to flee the scene on his two remaining legs. "Say, stranger" asked the bartender when things had settled down again, "would you mind telling us what kind of dog you got there?" "Well," replied the stranger, "before I cut his tail off and painted him yellar I suppose you would have called him an alligator."

Charley Noble