Here's one I heard on the radio this morning. Once a month, KGO Radio 810 talk show host Ronn Owens does what he calls the "R&B" Joke Hour with Brian Copeland (writer and performer of the one man stage play "Not a Genuine Black Man"). They read jokes submitted by listeners.

This was my favorite of the day:

Three labrador retrievers are in the waiting room of the vet's office. The yellow lab asks the chocolate lab, "So, what are you here for?"

The chocolate says, "I'm a digger. I dig up everything in the yard. I dig under the fence. Yesterday, I dug a big hole in the middle of the living room couch. My owners have decided that the only way to stop my digging is to get me calmed down, so I'm here to have my nuts snipped off."

The chocolate then turns to the black lab and asks, "And what are you here for?"

The black lab responds, "I'm a territory marker. I pee on everything to mark my space. I've been peeing in the house and yesterday, I pee'd in the middle of my owner's bed. They decided I needed to be calmed down, too. So, I'm also here to have my nuts snipped off."

The black turns back to the yellow lab and asks, "How about you, what are you here for?"

The yellow lab says, "I'm a humper. I hump everything that moves. And everything that's standing still. This morning, my owner's wife was taking a shower. When she got out, she bent down to dry her feet and I just couldn't help myself. I jumped on her back and started humping."

The other two looked at him sympathetically and said in unison, "Snipped nuts for you, too, huh?"

The yellow lab gives a short, sharp bark in response, then says, "No, I'm here to have my nails clipped!"

----- jim o\-S