While visiting a friend in the hospital a young man noticed several pretty nurses, each one of them was wearing a pin designed to look like an apple. “What does the pin signify?” he asked one of them. “Oh! Nothing,” she said with a chuckle. “We just use it to keep the doctors away.”

When the waitress in a New York City restaurant brought him the soup of the day, the Englishman was a bit dismayed. "Good heavens," he said, "what is this?"

"It's bean soup," she replied.

"I don't care what it's been," he replied. "I want to know what it is now?"

Government Philosophy: If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.

Government Philosophy: If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.