[MiniCooperChick]

Because not only did he mistake the animal, he mistook the gender. It's the "two punch" in a two-punchline joke!

You can't milk a male horse, bull, camel, billy goat, anything male!

p.s. I really don't think this incident happened, do you?

[brytlea]

p.s. I really don't think this incident happened, do you?
Nah....come on, the guy lived in Texas for years!
:)
As an aside, I read an interview with the guy who wrote the jokes (his name escapes me--but he wrote for Reagan as well) and he said no, the First Lady also has never watched Desperate Housewives.
susie

[Oztrich Boy]

BTW can anyone explain to me why the horse being male is funnier than it being a female?

Because not only did he mistake the animal, he mistook the gender. It's the "two punch" in a two-punchline joke!

I said that too

Paraphrase:
"George knew so little about farming, he couldn't tell a horse from a cow < beat > Actually he knew less than that"

First shoe, second shoe.

(And the guy who didn't get the joke in the first plaee didn't understand the explanation over there either - As Louis Armstrong nearly said "If you didn't get the joke, you'll never understand it")