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| Re: a moral lesson for us all [message #80720 is a reply to message #80719] |
Mon, 26 February 2007 09:21  |
gene lennon
Messages: 565
Registered: July 2006
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Funny
My father told the following story for years.
When he got off the boat from Ireland in the late 30’s (At Ellis Island),
one of the first headlines he saw in a newspaper was something like:
Saint Thomas wallops Virgin Mary.
He never saw a headline like that in Ireland, naturally it was on a sports
page, but it even though he had not been a practicing Catholic for several
years, he was still upset by it.
Later he went on to love NY papers for their irreverence.
Gene
rick <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>A pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won.
>
>The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in
>The race again, and it won again.
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>The local newspaper read:
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>PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.
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>The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he
>Ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.
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>The next day, the local newspaper headline read:
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>BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS.
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>This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the pastor to
>Get rid of the donkey.
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>The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent.
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>The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following
>Headline the next day:
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>NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.
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>The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to
>Get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10.
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>The next day the paper read:
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>NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.
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>This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy
>Back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.
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>The next day the headlines read:
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>NUN ANNOUNCES...HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.
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>The bishop was buried the next day....
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