JDN

All of his life Ole had heard stories of an amazing family tradition.

It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 21st birthday. On that day, they'd walk across the lake to the boat club for their first legal drink.

So when Ole's 21st birthday came around, he and his pal Sven took a boat out to the middle of the lake. Ole stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned! Sven just managed to pull him to safety.

Furious and confused, Ole went to see his grandmother. "Grandma, it's my 21st birthday, so why can't I walk across the lake like my father, his father, and his father before him?"

Granny looked into Ole's eyes and said, "Because, you dumb nut, your father, grandfather and great grandfather were born in January, you were born in July."

Rudy

alohalc

Fin535dA

Aahahahah

my530i

What I understood was that the lake is shallow in Jan and deep in July. In Jan, people can walk across the lake, but in July the lake is so deep that man cannot walk on it.

cobradav

Or could it be that Ole and Sven are Norwegian and something else happens in January ICE

my530i

Make sense to me, too.

Fin535dA

Wasn't the lake covered in ice?

Rudy

I think ice is the point of the joke -- "Ole" and "Sven" are the clues...

Iceman