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Two sisters, one is blonde and the other brunette, inherit a family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble.
In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull so that they can breed their own stock. So the brunette decides she will go to the local market and search for one.
Upon leaving, the brunette tells her sister, “When I find one, and if I decide to buy the bull, I’ll contact you to drive out there and haul it home.”
The brunette arrives at the market, inspects a bull, and decides she wants to buy it. The man tells her that he will sell it for $599, no less.
After paying him, she drives to the local telegraph office to send her sister a telegram to tell her the news.
She walks into the telegraph office, and says, “I want to send a telegram to my sister telling her that I’ve bought a bull for our ranch. I need her to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here so we can haul it home.”
The telegraph operator explains that he’ll be glad to help her, then adds “It will cist you 99 cents a word.”Well, after paying for the bull, the brunette only has $1 left. She realizes that she’ll only be able to send her sister one word.
After thinking for a few minutes, she nods, and says, “I want you to send her the word comfortable”.
The telegraph operator shakes his head. “How is she ever going to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pickup truck and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her the word ‘comfortable’?”
The brunette explains, “My sister’s blonde. The word’s big. She’ll read it slowly. (“com-for-da-bull”)
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