No joke!

In one of the few clean jokes I have told a million times, my parents went for a picnic out at Loch Raven Reservoir when they were newlyweds, and Mom was feeding bread cubes to the fish when her new wedding ring came off.

They searched and searched and finally gave up when darkness fell. The next weekend, helpful Dad took disconsolate Mom out for a fish dinner to cheer her up.

And when she cut into that fish, what do you think was inside it?

Right!  Bones!

People always fall for that one, because they want it to be true! Well, here it is, in true form, right from the wires of United Press International:

Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A British man who lost his wedding ring while swimming was reunited with the ring thanks to a couple of beach visitors -- and a helpful fish.

Dan Levine, 44, said he was swimming in Penzance, Cornwall, England, when the custom wedding ring designed by his wife fell off his finger.

"I put a post on Facebook asking for people to get in touch if they found it snorkeling or spear fishing but really didn't think I'd see it again. I was gutted. Oona had handmade it. We've been married 13 years. When I told her I'd lost it she was upset too," Levine told Cornwall Live.

Levine's Facebook plea eventually reached Gary and Emma Spires, who were visiting the beach just one day after the ring was lost when they saw a fish splashing around in shallow waters.

"Gary said he kneeled down and the ring was just nestled under the water beneath a little ledge. He might not have seen it had it not been for that little fish," Levine said.

Levine thanked the couple, and the helpful sea creature, in a Facebook post.
"Thanks, little fish," he wrote.

So, what we can learn from the story of the Englishman and his ring? We know now that our wildest dreams can come true. And this gives me hope that the moth story will come true someday!

(Norm Macdonald made that one famous. It seems that a moth showed up in a podiatrist's office one day, and when the podiatrist asked how he could help the moth, the bug went on and on about his cruel boss who humiliates him, the wide he once loved but hardly knows anymore, and the son whom he is not sure he ever really loved. At length, the foot doctor says the moth sure has a lot of problems and would do well to see a psychiatrist, finally asking why did you come here?

And the moth goes, "Because your light was on.")