[As submitted:]

This plays upon the being lost in a desert, you run across the Easter
bunny, Santa Claus, and a dishonest used car salesman prototype joke,
who do you believe?
(BTW, it's the used car salesman, because there is no such thing as an
Easter Bunny or Santa Claus).

You're hiking around on Hampsted Heath (a park near London) at the end
of a long sunny day.  You run across (separately) the ghosts of Sir
Winston Churchill, Sir Baden Powell, and Sir Edmund Hillary, who all
give you directions to the nearest tube stop.  Whom *don't* you
believe?

Your story teller, for there is no such thing as a completely sunny
day in England.

[original, 10/93 on a sunny day]

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[as published]

Date: Tue, 10 May 94 19:30:04 EDT
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
From: ritter@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk (Frank E. Ritter)
Subject: whom don't you believe
Keywords: smirk, weather, original


You're hiking around on Hampsted Heath (a park near London) at the end
of a long sunny day.  You run across (separately) the ghosts of Sir
Winston Churchill, Sir Baden Powell, and Sir Edmund Hillary, who all
give you directions to the nearest tube stop.  Whom *don't* you
believe?

Your story teller, for there is no such thing as a completely sunny
day in England.

[original, 10/93 on a sunny day]

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[as revised and included in a software humor product:]

You're hiking around on Hampsted Heath (a park near London) at the end
of a long sunny day.  You run across (separately) the ghosts of Sir
Winston Churchill, Lord Robert Stephenson Smythe Baden-Powell, and Sir
Edmund Hillary, who all give you different directions to the nearest
tube stop.  Whom *don't* you believe?

Your story teller, for not only is there no such thing as a completely
sunny day in England, but also (revisions based on recent email) Sir
Edmund Hillary is alive and well and living in New Zealand, so his
ghost, if not yet available, wouldn't know the way if it was (isn't
peer review funny how it influences science and changes punch lines to
Kiwis' disadvantage?).