HOW TALL IS IT? - Barroom jokes

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HOW TALL IS IT?
A man was walking down the street and on the  corner were 3 drunks trying to raise a telephone  pole.  They worked and worked and finally got the  thing in the air. Two of of the drunks held the  pole and the other climbed on top.  He let down a  a tape measure.  This fellow couldn't take it any  more so he asks what they were doing. 
They said,  'We are measuring this pole.'     
The man asks, 'Why didn't you measure it on the  ground?'     
They said, 'We know how long it is, now we want to know how tall it is.'