Three fine Irish lads, O’Rourke, O’Malley and O’Donnell, worked together at the local brewery. One day, as fate would have it, O’Rourke fell into one of the beer vats and drowned. O’Malley and O’Donnell, completely crestfallen, had to break the news to his wife.
They went ’round the Widow O’Rourke’s house and informed her that her poor dear Patrick had drowned in a beer vat that very day. Choking back her tears, she asked them “Tell me now, did me poor Patty suffer much?”
“I don’t think so,” replied O’Donnell. “He climbed out twice to take a piss.”