CODE WORD

        It was a quadruple marriage...four men who were best of friends
had just married four girls who were also very good friends.  After the
ceremony, they met at the hotel dining room and, while the men went
outside of smoke, the excited brides talked.  They soon got around to
discussing their thoughts on the forthcoming nuptial night and agreed
that they'd compare notes the next morning.  Since they couldn't discuss
matters before their husbands, they agreed on the code work, "morning."
That word would describe how many times they'd made love.
        At breakfast, the first two brides began to talk, "Good morning,
Mary," one said.
        "Good morning to you and isn't it a lovely morning?"
        The third bride remarked, "It's a great morning, all right, as
nice a morning as I've recently seen since the morning of the last
fourth of July."
        The fourth bride looked around, then said, "What a rotten day!"