The Lovesong of David Marvin Mailer

A large woman wearing a sleeveless sun dress walks into a bar in Vancouver.

She raises her right arm, revealing a huge, hairy armpit as she points to all the people sitting at the bar and demands, "What handsome stud here will buy a lady a drink?"

The bar goes silent as the patrons try to ignore her. But down at the end of the bar, an owl-eyed drunk slams his hand down on the counter and bellows: "Give the ballerina a drink!"

The bartender pours the drink and the woman chugs it down. She turns to the patrons again, points around at all of them, revealing that same hairy armpit, and says, "What handsome stud wants to buy a lady a drink?"

Once again, the same little drunk slaps his money down on the bar and says, "Give the ballerina another drink!"

The bartender approaches the little drunk and says, "Y'know, Murphy, it's your business if you want to buy the lady a drink, but why do you keep calling her a ballerina?"

The drunk replies, "Any woman who can lift her leg that high has got to be a ballerina."