Amish Pun Once, a group of American Amish farmers were traveling on an exchange program in Ireland. They stopped to inspect a peat bog, and were dismayed to see how the local farmers were collecting the peat: they would dig up a few bricks worth and pile it on the back of the town fool, who only had a vague notion of what was going on, and he would then stumble over to a wagon and fling it in. Well, the American Amish farmers were shocked at this display of cruelty and exploitation, and demanded that the practice should stop at once. The next day, the newspaper headlines read: Americans express: "Don't heave loam with thou twit!