My sister-in-law from Louisiana sent this joke via e-mail. It describes the Cajun cleanup plan for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill:

BP announced today that it no longer will hire Cajuns to help in the cleanup.

The reason: Thibodeaux, Boudreaux and Fontenot were told to clean as many brown pelicans as they could. So far, Thibodeaux has cleaned and gutted over 56 birds, while Boudreaux made the roux and Fontenot cooked the rice.

That sounds like an honest, redneck misunderstanding to me.