A blackmailer wrote the following to a wealthy business man: "Send me
$5,000 or I will abduct your mother-in-law."
To which the business man replied: "Sorry I am short of funds, but your
proposition interests me."
An undertaker telegraphed to a man that his mother-in-law had died and
asked whether he should bury, embalm or cremate her. The man replied,
"All three, take no chances."