Joke No. 107

GOVERNOR

Consider what happened when a governor's most trusted assistant died in his sleep one night. The fellow had been the governor's closest friend, and the governor had depended on him for advice on every subject, from pending bills to wardrobe decisions.

Almost immediately, ambitious office seekers begin besieging the governor with requests to fill the assistant's post.

"They don't even have the decency to wait until the man is buried," the governor complains.

Even at the funeral, one eager beaver makes his way to the governor's side. "Governor," the man says, "is there a chance that I could take Joe's place?"

"Certainly," says the governor. "But you'd better hurry. I think the undertaker is almost finished."

KANSAS

Consider the Kansas farm couple who are sleeping early one morning when a cyclone roars over their farmhouse. It lifts the roof off, picks up the bed the farmer and his wife are sleeping in and sets them down gently in the next county.

The wife begins to cry.
"Don't be scared, dear," her husband says.
"We're not hurt."
The woman continues to cry.
"I'm not scared," she says between sobs.
"I'm crying because I'm happy. This is the first time in 14 years we've been out together."