Old electrical joke (translated from French)...

[JFA]

The story goes, this guy is caught by the cops, parked beside a cadaver that seems to have been hit.
So the cop arrest the guy and charge him.
The guy claim he is innocent, that the cadaver must have been there before he parked and that he didn't notice it.

It goes to court, and the judge finds him guilty of murder and condemn him to die on the electric chair.

They strap him on the chair, pull the switch and the guy still lives. So they check their circuitry, and all is good.
They try another time, and the guy is still feeling great.

So, they release him on the basis that it was an act of god, that the guy must not have been guilty after all.

Question: was the guy too good a "conductor", or too poor a "conductor"?

NOTE:  in French, conductor means conductor, as electrical conductor, but  also driver, as in car driver ...

[miguelvp]

You don't have to explain jokes they become unfunny, BTW conductor means the same in English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductor

Although for trains, or music

Edit: but it's funny, I guess it's because in Spanish conductor means car driver too. So maybe it needs to be explained after all

[JFA]

Well, the original joke said asked the question. I didn't invent it. :-)

I didn't know it applied to train cowboys, I though it applied only to orchestra dictators... Pardon my French !

[miguelvp]

il est un bon conducteur

édition: pourquoi? tu te demande, parce qu'il n'a pas résisté l'arrrest

[staxquad]

his skin was a good insulator  (I don't get the joke obviously)

[amyk]

Also, "gerber" is slang for "vomit" in French.

[JFA]

Yup, pronounced  'jehrr-bay"