Comfortable

Once there were two sisters whose parents died. They were left the family ranch, but it wasn't doing so good. The sisters, one blonde and one brunette, decided the best thing they could do was to buy a  bull and start breeding cattle. They only had $600 left, so they watched the newspapers, and finally found an add for a ranch a couple hundred miles away that was selling a bull. They decided they should check it out, so the brunette took a bus to the distant ranch, telling her sister that if it turned out to be a good deal she would wire her to drive out and haul them home.

The brunette found that the bull was really good and the rancher only wanted $599, so they could afford it.  So the brunette went into town to send her sister a telegram. She told the telegraph operator that she needed to wire her sister to tell her that she had bought the bull, and now her sister should hook the trailer up to the pickup and drive out there so they could haul it home.

The telegraph operator said he could easily send a telegram to the sister, and it would only cost $1 a word. The brunette had just paid $599 for the bull. She only had $1 left, so she thought about it for a minute. How could she send only one word to her sister? Finally she told the telegraph operator to send the word "comfortable."

The telegraph operator scratched his head and asked, "How is your sister ever going to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pickup and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her just the word, comfortable?"

The burnette explained, "My sister is a blonde. The word is big. She will read it very slowly.....com-for-da-bull."