An elderly couple were on a cruise and it was really
stormy. They were standing on the back of the boat
watching the moon, when a wave came up and washed the old
woman overboard. They searched for days and couldn't find
her, so the captain sent the old man back to shore with the
promise that he would notify him as soon as they found
something.
Three weeks went by and finally the old man got a fax
from the boat. It read: "Sir, sorry to inform you, we
found your wife dead at the bottom of the ocean. We hauled
her up to the deck and attached to her butt was an oyster
and in it was a pearl worth $50,000 . . please advise."
The old man faxed
back: "Send me the pearl and re-bait the trap."