At 11:06 PM 19/12/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Ventriloquist: "Mind if I talk to your sheep?"
>
>New Zealander: "The sheep's a liar."

The variation I heard some years back was:-

That the New Zealander runs out the back to the Sheep tied to a post
and says "There's a stranger in town asking questions, don't say
anything"...

Rgds

Mike
Perth, Western Australia