There was this Indian chief who was straining to blow a fart but it wouldn’t come out.
So he sent his little messenger boy to the doctor and he says, “Big chief, no fart.”
The doctor gives him a can of beans and tells him to come back tomorrow to tell him what happened.
The messenger boy comes back the next day and says, “Big chief, no fart.”
The doctor gives him 10 cans of beans this time.
The messenger boy comes back the next day and says, “Big chief, no fart.”
The doctor gives him 100 cans of beans.
The messenger boy comes back the next day and says, “Big chief, no fart.”
The doctor gives him 1,000 cans of beans and says, “If this doesn’t work then nothing will.”
The messenger boy comes back the next day and looks at the doctor.
The doctor anxiously asked, “Well, did it work?”
The messenger boy says, “Big fart, no chief!”
It was autumn, and the Indians on the remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was an Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets, and when he looked at the sky, he couldn’t tell what the weather was going to be.
Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he replied to his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect wood to be prepared.
But also being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, “Is the coming winter going to be cold?”
“It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold, indeed!” the Meteorologist at the weather service responded.
So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more wood in order to be prepared.
One week later, he called the National Weather Service again.
“Is it going to be a very cold winter?” he asked.
“Yes,” the man at National Weather Service again replied, “it’s going to be a very cold winter.”
The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of wood they could find.
Two weeks later, he called the National Weather Service again.
“Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?”
“Absolutely,” the man replied. “It looks like it’s going to be one of the coldest winters ever.”
“How can you be so sure?” the Chief asked.
