I first heard this construct in a Deep Thought by Jack Handey, from the mid-nineties I believe: "After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get

I first heard this construct in a Deep Thought by Jack Handey, from the mid-nineties I believe: "After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going?'." I still laugh about it, and the main reason it was funny to me was the odd (but humorously apropos) use of the word "because."