[lfjokes] Indian Weather Forecasting...

[Simondo]

From: simondo <simondo at paradise.net.nz>

  It was autumn, and the Indians on the remote reservation asked their
 new chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was an
 Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets,
 and when he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the weather was going to
 be.
  Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he replied to his tribe that the
 winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the
 village should collect wood to be prepared.
  But also being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea.
 He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and
 asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"

  "It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold indeed," the
 meteorologist at the weather service responded.

 So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect
 even more wood in order to be prepared. A week later he called the National
 Weather Service again.

 "Is it going to be a very cold winter?"

 "Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "it's Going
 to be a very cold winter."

  The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to
 collect every scrap of wood they could find.
  Two weeks later he called the National Weather Service again.

  "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"

 "Absolutely," the man replied. "It's going to be one of the coldest
 winters ever.

  "How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked.

  The weatherman replied, "The Indians are collecting wood like crazy."