When the Americans were getting ready to send their first men to the moon, an old Irishman was watching them on television in the bar of a hotel.

There was an Englishman in the bar too, and he said to the Irishman,"The Americans are very clever, aren't they? They're going to send some men to the moon. It's a very longway from our world."

"The Irish are going to send some men to the sun in a few months" time. That's much farther away than the moon, you know." The Englishman was very surprised when he heard this."Oh, yes, it is." he said,"but the sun's too hot for people to go to."

"Oh that's nothing,"the Irishman. answered quickly.

The Irishman laughed and answered."Well, the Irish aren't stupid, you know. We won't go to the sun during the day, of course. We'll go there during the night."