In search of a better Bear joke

A while back, I was commissioned by my office workers to come up with a better bear joke than the terrible pun I dropped in the middle of a staff meeting (It's a long story...or at least a boring one), and I set out at once to find the best Bear Joke I could possibly find.

As fate would have it, there aren't that many out there. Believe me...I've searched.

Undaunted, I decided that the next best move would be to author my very own Bear Joke. One that would lay the masses out in stitches. Hey, I'm a big dreamer, so lay off! Try as I might, I couldn't come up with a good joke. I tired copying old jokes and just putting bears in the punch line, but that didn't work.

As it stands, I'm at a loss. I did have an epiphany the other day as to why this is such a hard task. It boils down to two truths:

1.) Bears aren't funny, they're scary.

2.) Jokes are REALLY hard to come up with. Think about it, when was the last time you've ever heard a FRESH joke. I'm pretty sure all the "punch-line" jokes were told back in the 1800s and now we're all stuck with 'em.

Not one to be a quitter...well, okay, I am a quitter, but not on this...I'm going to keep working at it. This is what I have so far:

A bear walks into a YMCA....