A minister was seated next to a cowboy on a flight to Texas.
After the plane took off, the cowboy asked for a whiskey and soda, which was brought and placed before him.
The flight attendant then asked the minister if he would like a drink.
Appalled, the minister replied, “I’d rather be tied up and taken advantage of by women of ill repute, than let liquor touch my lips.”
The cowboy then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, “Me too, I didn’t know we had a choice.”
I don’t get it.
Choice 1
Choice 2
Tom
So the flight attendant was a woman of ill repute? I don’t understand what women of ill repute have to do with it.
No, she was not. She just happened to be the person asking the minister if he would like a drink. The drink is choice 1, not the flight attendant.
The minister’s response was choice 2.
I still don’t understand it.
It must be cruel and evil.
Cran: Someone else will have to give it a try, I don’t know how else to say it. Good thing I didn’t become a teacher, eh??? 
It’s not cruel and evil though, just seedy and snarky.
Tom
Cran, it was basically a play on the choice between two ‘evils’… it was meant to be funny at how quickly the cowboy jumped ship from having his drink, to have the chance to be tied up and be taken advantage of by a woman of ill-repute. Booze or sex, which one would you rather have… you know? There was really only one choice-- the booze-- and the minister was just emphatically declaring that he would never take a drink, but he did so rather colorfully, making the cowboy think he actually could have a woman instead.
I bite at explaining jokes, so my apologies if I just made it more confusing… 
Ad- You did a better job than I did. Anyway, you know what they say, if you have to explain a joke…
Tom
What do they say? I (seriously) don’t know…I must look quite quite stupid. LOL.
‘They’ say, “If you have to explain a joke, it’s not funny anymore.”
That’s funny!
:roll:
Slan,
D.
Dubhlinn beat me to it!
cran, all you have to know is that sex is better than booze. the rest is irrelevant.
why? Did MarMil write the joke?
Does that depend upon the quality of both? Is bad sex better than good booze? 
Cran, methinks you’re playing.
jbarter. Bad sex? Never heard of it.
Great joke.
what flyingdude said.
Is the minister a Catholic Priest, or a Methodist, or something else? That’s very important to my enjoyment of this joke.