"Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mommy near
the phone?"
"No Daddy. She's upstairs in the bedroom
with Uncle Paul."
After a brief pause, Daddy says, "But honey,
you haven't got an Uncle Paul."
"Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room
with Mommy, right now."
Another brief pause...
"Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do.
Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs
and knock on the bedroom door and shout to
Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the
driveway."
"Okay Daddy, just a minute."
A few minutes later the little girl comes back
to the phone.
"I did it Daddy."
"And what happened honey?"
"Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed
with no clothes on and ran around screaming.
Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on
the dresser and now she isn't moving at all!"
"Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?"
"He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too.
He was all scared and he jumped out of the back
window and into the swimming pool. But I guess
he didn't know that you took out the water last week
to clean it. He hit the bottom of the pool and I think
he's dead."
***Long Pause***
***Longer Pause***
***Even Longer Pause***
Then Daddy says,
"Swimming pool"?
Is this 486-5731?"
"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats." Mark Twain
