what I meant to say
What I meant to say was that I didn't believe my own post. It was supposed to be a joke on a joke. Didn't come out right.
It's like that guy that got a life sentence in prison and every night he would hear different guys up and down the corridor yelling out numbers, which would always be followed by raucous laughter from every cell. Finally, he couldn't contain his curiosity. He asks the old guy in the next cell "Hey what's with all the yelling out the numbers every night?"
"Well," he says "most of us, we been in here so long and we've heard every joke there is to tell so many times, well, we just got to numbering the jokes to save a little time. So when someone wants to tell a joke to the rest of the cellblock, he just shouts out the number. Like number forty-one. That's the farmer and the traveling salesman. Whoo. That's a good one. Wanna give it a try."
"Sure." So the new guy stands up on his bunk and yells out "Forty one!" Dead silence.
The old guy says "Better try another one. Quick."
"Sixty seven!" he shouts. Nothing. "Twenty two." he says, without much enthusiasm. Mild grumbling. "Fifty eight?" Finally he gets a response. A voice from about five cells down shouts "Hey shut up down there."
The new guy jumps down off his bunk and whispers to the old guy in the next cell. "Gee whiz, buddy" he says, "what do you think I did wrong?"
"Well" says the old guy, "I guess some guys can tell jokes, and some guys can't."
SLM
ps if buying my wife a digital camera means taking more than three dollars out of my Presidente fund, it just ain't gonna happen