It is along the hippopotamus!

One of my few math jokes. Probably not politically correct anymore, but had to do with an indigenous persons group whos chief just died. They select their new chief based on an age old tradition use a balance beam. Each of the two front runners could lay out an animal hide on each balance beam and then put their wife or wives on the animal hides. The one that weighed the most won.

The first laid out two deer hides and put each of this two lovely curvaceous wives on the two hides. The next laid out a hippopotamus hide and put his rather large overweight aged wife on that hide. Well, the scale wobbled and it bobbled and it creaked and it moaned and then finally balanced out exactly even. 

The two leaders were then to share control of the group until one of them died. 

And the moral of the story is ......