Non PD Be careful of machines

[Bruce Anderson <bbanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OLD THEME, NEW USE!

Subject: FW: Fwd: Having a baby is easy...


 A married couple went to the hospital together to
 have their baby
 delivered.  Upon their arrival, the doctor said he
 had invented a new
 machine that would transfer a portion of the
 mother's labor pain to
 the father.  He asked if they were  willing to try
 it out. They were both
 very much in favor of it.

 The doctor set the knob to 10 percent for starters,
 explaining that even
 10 percent was probably more pain than the father
 had ever experienced
 before. But as the labor progressed, the husband
 felt fine, so he asked
 the doctor to go ahead and bump it up a notch. The
 doctor then adjusted
 the machine to 20 percent pain transfer.

 The husband was still feeling fine. The doctor
 checked the husband's
 blood pressure and pulse and was amazed at how well
 he was doing.  At
 this, they decided to try for 50 percent.

The husband continued to feel quite well.  Since it
 was obviously
helping out his wife considerably, he encouraged
the doctor to transfer
 ALL the pain to him.  The wife delivered a healthy
 baby with virtually
 no pain. She and her husband were ecstatic.

 When they got home, they found the mailman dead on
their porch.