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 buy a bull and start breeding cattle. They only had $600, so they watched the newspapers until they found an add for a bull that was being sold at a ranch on the other side of the state. The sisters 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 for him. She hurried into town to send her sister a telegram.
"I need to send a wire to my sister," she told the telegraph operator. "It has to say that I bought a bull, and now my sister needs to hook up the trailer to the pickup and drive out here so she can haul us home."

The telegraph operator said he could easily send a telegram to the sister, but it would 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 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 smiled. "Well, my sister is a blonde," she explained. "Comfortable is a big word, so she will read it very slowly..... Com-for-da-bull."