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On the Ohio frontier, a young man lived on a farm with his Mom and Dad. There was nothing on the farm that the boy hated as much as the old tin outhouse: it was broiling hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter. One spring during the thaw, the river bordering the farmland was especially high and the boy saw the hated outhouse leaning towards the river.

"If I give that outhouse a good push," thought the boy, "It'll fall into the river and float away downstream and I'll never see it again!"

After thinking about how much he hated the outhouse, the boy decided to do just that. He gave the outhouse a good push and as he hoped, the outhouse fell into the river and floated away out-of-sight downstream.

A few hours later, the boy saw his Pa coming towards him and by the angry look on his Pa's face, the boy knew what was coming. He thought of many possible lies to cover up his act, but then he remembered the story of George Washington and the Cherry Tree and how telling the truth was the best way to deal with a bad act.

"Boy, " said his Pa, "What happened to the outhouse?"

"I cannot tell a lie", replied the boy, "I done push that crummy old tin outhouse into the river and then it floated out-of-sight downstream."

"Well boy, I'm a fixing to give you a whupping for that!"

"But Pa, when George Washington chopped down that Cherry Tree and then told the truth 'bout it, he didn't get no whupping!" the boy cried.

"Son, I don't reckon that George Washington's Pa was sitting in the Cherry Tree at the time."

A guy goes to a talent agent with his dog and says his dog can talk.

The agent says "Okay, show me".

The guy turns to his dog and asks "What's on top of a house?" The dog responds "Roof!"

He next asks the dog "If you sit on sand paper, what's it feel like?" "Ruff!" comes the response.

He continues, "Who's the greatest baseball player of all time?" The dog barks "Ruth".

At this point, the agent kicks the both of them out of the office. The man says to the dog, "Well, you really did it
this time." The dog answers back "Do you think I should have said Gehrig?"