Modified joke for the Irish thread.
A man was stopped by a baliff in Ireland recently with two buckets of scallops leaving a stretch of coastline well known for its shellfish.
The baliff asked the man, "Do you have a license to catch those scallops?"
The man replied, "No, sir. These are my pet scallops."
"Pet scallops?!" the baliff replied.
"Yes, sir. Every night I take these here scallops down to the sea and let them swim around for a while. I whistle and they jump back into their buckets, and I take em home."
"That's a bunch of hooey, scallops can't do that!"
The man looked at the baliff for a moment, and then said, "Here, I'll show you. It really works."
"O.K. I've GOT to see this!" The baliff was curious.
The man poured the scallops in to the sea, stood and waited. After several minutes, the baliff turned to the man and said, "Well?"
"Well, what?" the man responded.
"When are you going to call them back?" the baliff prompted.
"Call who back?" the man asked.
"The SCALLOPS!"
"What scallops?" the man asked.