{"id":714,"date":"2025-07-27T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2025-07-27T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:20:16","slug":"what-happened-to-the-alligators-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to the Alligators?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While sports fishing off the Florida coast in Key West, a tourist capsized his boat.<\/h2>\n

He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft.<\/p>\n

Spotting an old beachcomber walking on the shore, the tourist shouted, \u201cThere wouldn\u2019t by chance be any alligators in these waters?!\u201d<\/p>\n

He asks in panic. \u201cNo,\u201d the old man hollered back, \u201chaven\u2019t been any for years!\u201d<\/p>\n

Feeling relieved, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.<\/p>\n

About halfway toward shore he asked the old man, \u201cSay, how\u2019d you get rid of the gators, anyway?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t do anything,\u201d the old man said.\u00a0\u201cThe sharks got \u2019em.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An elderly man in Florida had owned a large farm for several years.<\/h2>\n

He had a large pond in the back, fixed up nicely: Picnic tables, horseshoe courts, a volleyball court, and some fruit trees.<\/p>\n

The pond was properly shaped and fixed up for swimming.<\/p>\n

One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond and look it over, as he hadn\u2019t been there in a while.<\/p>\n

He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring back some fruit.<\/p>\n

As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee.<\/p>\n

As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond.<\/p>\n

He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.<\/p>\n

One of the women shouted to him, \u201cWe\u2019re not coming out until you leave!\u201d<\/p>\n

The old man frowned, \u201cI didn\u2019t come down here to watch you ladies swim or make you get out of the pond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holding the bucket up he said,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m here to feed the alligator.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

So one day, Grandma sent her grandson Little Johnny down to the waterhole to get some water for cooking dinner.<\/h2>\n

As he was dipping the bucket in, he saw two big eyes looking back at him.<\/p>\n

He dropped the bucket and hightailed it for Grandma\u2019s kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell now, where\u2019s my bucket and where\u2019s my water?\u201d Grandma asked him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t get any water from that water hole, Grandma\u201d exclaimed Johnny. \u201cThere\u2019s a BIG ol\u2019 alligator down there!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow don\u2019t you mind that ol\u2019 alligator, Johnny. He\u2019s been there for a few years now, and he\u2019s never hurt no one. Why, he\u2019s probably as scared of you as you are of him!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Grandma,\u201d replied Johnny, \u201cif he\u2019s as scared of me as I am of him, then that water ain\u2019t fit to drink!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While sports fishing off the Florida coast in Key West, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft. Spotting an old beachcomber walking on the shore, the tourist shouted, \u201cThere wouldn\u2019t by chance be any alligators in these waters?!\u201d He asks in panic. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}