Poison Problem
October 11, 2009
This joke comes via www.mormonzone.com …
A man in the ward goes to see his bishop and says, “Bishop, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it.”
The bishop asks, “What’s wrong?”
The man replies, “My wife is poisoning me.”
The bishop, a bit surprised, asks, “How can that be?”
The brother then pleads, “I’m telling you – I’m certain she’s poisoning me. What should I do?”
The bishop then offers, “Tell you what. Let me talk to her. I’ll see what I can find out and I’ll let you know.”
The next day the bishop calls the man and says, “Well, I spoke to your wife on the phone yesterday for over three hours. You want my advice?”
The man anxiously answers, “Yes.”
“Take the poison,” says the bishop.
I don’t get it. Having known a couple where the husband really tried to poison the wife, I don’t see the humor.
Okay, I admit, it is a bad joke. Plus they’re never funny if you have to explain them. The bishop is saying that after he met the wife dying is better than living with her. I think it wasn’t a mormon joke that someone tried to turn into a mormon joke by throwing the bishop in there. Pretend the bishop in the joke is the guys friend.
It’s a variation on the baseball joke:
A female fan is berating the umpire for his officiating on the field.
“Mr. Umpire, if you were my husband, I’d feed you poison!”
The Umpire retorts, “Lady, if I were your husband, I’d gladly take it!”
Naturally a real-life situation wouldn’t be funny.
Still, where are we without a sense of humor, even a morbid one?