Will it be cold?

Pause for some comic relief.


It's late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in Minnesota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.


Since he had grown up in modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets.

He looked up at the sky, and hadn't a clue what the winter would be like.

Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.

But, being a practical leader, after several days, he got an idea. He called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"

"Looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.

A week later, just to be sure, he called the National Weather Service again. "Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?"

"Yep," the man at 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 firewood they could find.

Two weeks later, the chief called the Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"

"Without a doubt!" the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen."

This time the chief asked, "How can you be so sure?"

The weatherman replied, "Because the Indians are collecting a shitload of firewood!"