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Yea, I have great comic delivery I humbly admit. And I have a nice smile and they know immediately that it's a joke and they tend to laugh a lot. Never had a slap from that joke.

I actually use variations on it all the time. My personal favorite was at a DMV in Los Angeles about two years ago. I accompanied my friend who had some business there and we were finally called up and an older black woman tended to his issue. Somehow my friend made reference to something unflattering in his driving record and said 'hey, I'm honest!' I jumped in with, "Well, I'm a liar and a coward. If I wasn't I'd never have any dates."

The old woman laughed so hard that he coworkers asked her what was so funny! She chided me and said "I know you, you're a nice man who does whatever your woman says!" :-)