Three Irishmen get drunk...

Three Irishmen - Danny, Barry, and Colin, - get drunk at the old tavern and get to talking about the wonders of the Emerald Isle. they sing some songs, and talk about history they're too wasted to understand, and they decide they're going to see a castle tonight.

So they make their way through the night and find a castle. The castle is, as far as they can discern, dark and empty, but they manage to find their way in. They wander about for a while until Danny decides to go and relieve himself out a window.

Barry and Colin stumble away, and after some time at the window Danny zips up and turns to find a pale, slender and dour looking figure, perhaps the butler, waiting behind him.

"Pardon sir, but you shouldn't be here. Let me show you out." The buzzkill scarecrow guy leads danny down a flight of stairs into the dungeon.

Some time later the door swings open and Barry, looking quite unnerved, is tossed into the dank darkness with Danny.

The buzz is wearing off, and they say nothing to one another. They eventually pass out, and are awakened some time later by the sound of sirens, and are taken home by the police.

The police explain to them that the Count had gone crazy and had apparently taken others into the dungeons, and those others had not been so lucky.

Several weeks later Danny and Barry attend the funeral service for the victims of the mad Count. A bagpipe wails a farewell and Danny wipes a tear away, saying, "There's nothin' brings a tear to me eye like the old sheepskin..."

"That's no sheepskin," says Barry, gravely.

"Aye?"

"O, danny boy... The pipes... The pipes are *Colin.*"