Three carpooling engineers are listening to the news on their way to work. “After the recent election of W.C. Fields,” the newscaster is saying, “Manual audits have shown that voting machines all over the country have returned faulty results! It is total anarchy here today in the Capitol, and President Fields is doing his best to stem the riots.” Suddenly, the car stalls. Scowling, the driver restarts the engine, but a few feet later, it stalls again. Then, the engineer in the passenger seat points out that the cars around have all stalled as well.

“Well, you know what they say,” the third engineer says, leaning back and kicking up his feet, “WHEN DEMOCRACY FAILS, YOU CAN COUNT ON STALLIN'!”

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