BAD JOKE WEDNESDAY DOESN'T MISS THE OLD DAYS

THE FIRST DROP

"General," said an American major, "I always observe that those persons who have a great deal to say about being ready to shed their last drop of blood, are amazin' pertic'lar about the first drop."

-- from Beeton's Book of Jokes and Jests; or, Good Things Said and Sung by Samuel Orchart Beeton (London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, 1880)