"The rain came down, and the floods came up..."

A lovely joke I heard at Dave's graduation in 2008. Astronaut Frank Borman, the speaker at the graduation, told this story....

There was a man who survived the flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The remainder of his life, he talked about how he survived the Johnstown flood of 1889. He would travel to different cities and different universities and tell the same story of how he survived That Flood of 1889.

One day, this man died. When he reached the pearly gates of Heaven, Peter informed him that before he passes the white gates, he'll have to talk about his life's achievement in front of a large group of people. The man said, "Oh, that's easy. I'll just talk about how I survived the 1889 flood." Peter responded, "Well, that's fine. Just keep in mind that Noah will be in the audience."