I give permission for Senator Barack Obama, or any of his staff, to use the following joke, written by me, when campaigning in Pennsylvania:
Hiya folks! It's great to be in Pennsylvania, its a very friendly place. It's one of the best state names in the United States, but I gotta tell ya, there's something that I've always wondered about the name of the state of Pennsylvania: Why is it that, whenever we hear the name, "Transylvania," we think of a scary, frightening place populated with vampires, but when we hear, "Pennsylvania," we aren't even a little bit scared?
Oops! I'm sorry; I must take that back. I promised Hillary I wouldn't be making any "Monster" jokes.