An elderly couple was on a cruise and it was really stormy. They
were standing on the back of the boat watching the moon, when a
wave came up and washed the old woman overboard. They searched
for days and couldn't find her, so the captain sent the old man
back to shore with the promise that he would notify him as soon
as they found something.

Three weeks went by and finally the old man got a fax from the boat.
It read: "Sir, sorry to inform you, we found your wife dead at the
bottom of the ocean. We hauled her up to the deck and attached to
her butt was an oyster and it was a pearl worth $50,000 . . .please
advise."

The old man faxed back: "Send me the pearl and re-bait the trap"