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 of the baby.

    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
    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, the mailman was dead on their
    porch.