-- Dave>Hi again - How about a little levity? I got this on e-mail from an >evangelical ex-evangelical in the States, if you see what I mean. >Cracks me up.
> >I was in San Francisco once, walking along the Golden Gate Bridge, and I saw >this guy on the bridge about to jump. So I thought I'd try to stall him, >detain him long enough for me to put the film in my camera.
>I said, "Don't jump!" And he turned. You've heard of the Elephant Man? >He was kinda like that. He had a -- well, you could say he had the head of a >horse.My heart went out to him. I said, "Why the long face?" > "Because all my life people have called me mean names like Horse's > Head, Flicka, Chess Piece, or Trigger." > "Well, don't worry about it, Ed. It can't be that bad." > "My girlfriend's suing me." > "For Palomino?" > "Why was I put on this earth?" > "My friend, anywhere else you wouldn't stand a chance!" > "Nobody loves me." > "God loves you, you silly ninny." > "How do you know there is a God?" > "Of COURSE there's a God. Do you think that billions of years ago a > bunch of molecules floating around at random could someday have had > the sense of humor to make you look like that?" > He says, "I do believe in God." > I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" > "A Christian." > "Me TOO! Protestant or Catholic?" > "Protestant." > "Me too. What franchise?" > "Baptist." > "Me too. Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" > "Northern Baptist." > "Me too. Norther Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist or Northern > Conservative Reformed Baptist?" > He says, "Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist." > I said, "Me too. Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great > Lakes Region or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Eastern > Region?" > He said, "Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes > Region." > > I said, "Me too. Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great > Lakes Region Council of 1879 or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist > Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" > He says, "Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes > Region Council of 1912."
> "DIE heretic!" I cried, and shoved him off the bridge. > >(from the 1985 Epic Album, E=MO [squared]) >by Emo Phillips