This one's long, but your patience may be rewarded:
An old mountaineer comes out of the hills of West Virginia and arrives at a Dentist's office with a severely abscessed tooth.
The dentist explains to the oldtimer that he needs to perform a root canal, but must first inject the gum with Novocaine.
The mountain man objects, saying "No needles, doc, do what you need to do, but I don't want any needles-they get you hooked!"
So the dentist proceeds to graphically describe the terrible pain that could occur should he strike a nerve when the area doesn't have the benefits of anesthesia.
"Well doc," the grizzly fellow says, "That sounds like the third most awful pain in the world."
"Third-most?", said the dentist, "what could be worse?"
"Well, a couple of years back", the mountaineer says, "I was in the deep woods laying bear traps, when the nature called me in a bad way. I squatted down to relieve myself, and I dropped a load right onto a trap, which sprung up and caught hold of my family jewels."
"Gracious!" the dentist exclaimed, "That has to qualify as the worst pain in the world."
"Nope", the old guy said, "second worst".
"What could possibly be worse that that?" asked the dentist.
"Well," the mountaineer said with a grimace, "When the trap caught hold I started a'runnin', and when I hit the end of that chain..." |
