Last week, I mentioned a joke a terrific new friend told about how lawyers view cows to illustrate the value of empathy and being willing to see other points of view. Over the weekend, perusing my tattered copy of 2,500 Anecdotes For All Occasions, I came across this:
“Cordell Hull is an extremely cautious speaker, 
striving always for scientific accuracy. One day on a train, a friend pointed to a fine flock of sheep grazing in a field. ‘Look, those sheep have just been sheared.’
Different characters, same punch line.
Cordell Hull won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945, and was referred to by Franklin D. Roosevelt as “Father Of The United Nations.”
But did he actually speak the line, “sheared on this side, anyway”? A quick Internet search reveals that attribution to Hull verses a generic speaker is running two to one, so it must be true.
