A steamboat was stranded in the Mississippi River, and the Captain could not get her free. Eventually a hard-looking fellow came on board and said: "Captain, I understand you want a pilot to take you out of this difficulty?"

The Captain said, "Are you a pilot?"

"Well they call me one."

"Do you know where the snags and sandbars are" the Captain asked.

"No, sir."

"Well how do you expect to take me out of here if you don't know where the snags and sandbars are?"

"Because I knows where they ain't!" was his reply.

[ December 17, 2005, 08:43 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]