Gunny Walker

  So anyway, I was talking to one of the fellows a work the other day. He was helping our group out, and I responded with, "You know Lehi, your a pretty good guy. I don't care what Spike says about you."
  Now Spike is our resident O.D.B. Lehi is a pretty religious fellow. So what do you think the response was? I'll tell you how surprised I was to learn how few people know the typical response. The typical response is, "I don't really care what (insert name here) says either."
  No, the reponse went to the complete opposite direction. Lehi said, "Well, when a dog barks do you listen?" Somehow I think there's some story in front of this moral, but I don't know what it is.
  I think that I made the wrong response when I said, "Well sometimes I do. If it were a big mean dog, I'd listen to it. After all, I don't want to get bit." I don't think that he got that joke either. Later on, I had to spend thirty minutes explaining that Spike really didn't say anything bad about him. I guess some people have a hard time understanding a joke.
  I'd also listen to a dog if it were Lassie. Lassie saves people. From wells
  I thought everybody knew that joke. Try to remember the proper response if I ever say it to you. That and the magic words, "a la peanut butter and jelly sandwiches."