Article Ignores Most Interesting Aspect Of Situation: Goat Walks Into A Bar

I saw a link for an article about a goat walking into a bar and I admit, I was interested. However, the article itself was utterly disappointing. All they talked about was where the goat came from (apparently was stolen from a petting zoo). They totally ignored the most interesting parts of the story.

I mean, a goat walks into a bar. Doesn’t that sound like the lead in or set up to a joke? A goat walks into a bar. The bartender says: we don’t serve goats here, only sheep…See? There’s got to be a joke there, I’m just not going through writing it.

What did the goat do when it walked into the bar? What did the bartender do? The other patrons? Did the goat say anything? Did anyone say anything to the goat? Did the goat get a drink?  Was he too baaaa-shful (I know, that would work better for a sheep)?

There’s an amazing amount of possibility here, but the article just mentions the goat walking into a bar as only part of a single sentence. They then talk the rest of the time about the goat being stolen from a petting zoo, as if that’s really all that interesting. I’m sure animals get stolen from petting zoos all the time.

Interestingly, the article references the goat as the one that walked into a Montana bar as if we should immediately thereby know what goat they are talking about. Oh sure! The goat that walked into a Montana bar. Perhaps we should. Perhaps there has been national news coverage on this already and I just missed it. Perhaps that’s where they covered all the possibilities inherent in the fact that the goat walked into a bar. Maybe, or just maybe the article is just presented oddly (or was only intended for a very specific, local audience).

I don’t know. I just know that I was hoping for a lot more from this article…a punchline at least.