Two academics and a consultant walk into a bar and order drinks. “Who’s paying?” asks the bartender. The academics immediately say “He is,” pointing to the consultant.
The academics and the bartender start to look concerned when the consultant shakes his head and says “I’m not paying.” But they relax and smile broadly when he adds, “The client’s paying.”
That may well be the world’s first joke to start like that. The more religious among you might want to pray that it’s the last…
So, the next part of the joke is that the bartender fills the glass with the generic vodka and tells the consultant that it is Stoli….and he says “yes I know, I can always tell the difference….