Snakebite!

There's a joke people still tell about two guys working in the oilfield and one gets bitten on the ass by a snake.

"Hurry, go get the doctor," he pleads to his friend. "Ask him what we're supposed to do."

His friend heads into town and finds the doctor, who is rushing out the door to deliver a baby.

"I can't help you right now," he tells the man. "But here's what you do. Cut two Xs over the fang mark and suck out all the venom. I promise, your friend will be fine."

So the man drives back out to the oil field where his friend lays in agony holding his swollen ass.

"What did the doctor say?"

"The doctor says you're gonna die."

Here's a story about a recent rattlesnake roundup in Texas, and info about this year's event in Sweetwater:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/print?oid=73887

http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/main/modules/content/index.php?id=12