Another Beach Comber please. And I suggest everyone else stock up because after this post, you're going to need it.

Just got an email that brought me back a few weeks to the Switzerland trip we took, and all the yodeling Gini was doing. I just had to share, so here you go. Oh, and if you're too young to be in a bar, please kindly skip to the next post without reading further in this one.

It's said this is how yodeling began:

Many years ago a man was traveling through the
mountains of Switzerland.

Nightfall was rapidly approaching and he had
nowhere to sleep. He went up to a farmhouse
and asked the farmer if he could spend the night.

The farmer told him that he could sleep in the
barn.

As the story goes, the farmer's daughter came
down from upstairs and asked her father,
"Who's that man going into the barn?"

"That's some fellow traveling through," said the
farmer. "He needs a place to stay for the night,
so I said he could sleep in the barn."

The daughter said, "Perhaps he's hungry." So she
prepared him a plate of food and took it out to the barn.

About an hour later, the daughter returned, her
clothing disheveled and straw in her hair.
Straight up to bed she went.

The farmer's wife was very observant. She then
suggested that perhaps the man was thirsty.
So she fetched a bottle of wine, took it out to the
barn, and she too did not return for an hour.
Her clothing was askew, her blouse buttoned
incorrectly and her hair all messed up. She also
headed straight to bed.

The next morning at sunrise the man in the barn
got up and continued on his journey, waving to
the farmer as he left.

When the daughter awoke and learned that the
visitor was gone, she broke into tears.
"How could he leave without even saying goodbye,
" she cried. "We made such passionate love last night!"

"What?" shouted the father as he angrily ran out
of the house looking for the man who, by now,
was halfway up the mountain.

The farmer screamed up at him, "I'm going to get
you! You had sex with my daughter!"

The man looked back down from the mountainside,
cupped his hand next to his mouth, and yelled out:

"LAIDTHEOLELADEETOO."