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Colin Quinn was a guest on Martha Stewart today.  The Polish/Irish joke he told went over like a fart in a wind tunnel.  His second joke was much better.  Here goes (if you can pull off the brogue, it's much more quaint):

An Irishman goes to his county pub every week, and every week he does the same thing.  He orders three beers, takes a sip of one, a sip of the next, and a sip of the last.  He does this every week for a year.  One week, the Irishman walks in, orders three beers, takes a sip of one, a sip of the next, and a sip of the last, and the curious bartender finally asks him, "Sir, why do you drink your beers this way?"

"Oh," the Irishman says, "I have a brother in Australia, and a brother in America.  Since we're so far from each other, we decided that every week, we'd have a beer together."

Several weeks later, the Irishman comes to his county pub and only orders two beers.  Concerned, the bartender asked him, "What happened?"

And the Irishman said, "Oh, I quit drinking."

Happy St. Patrick's Day!