[1712] in Humor
HUMOR: The ladle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Thu Nov 21 12:55:50 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:38:13 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 15:05:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: cyerkes <cyerkes@interport.net>
Forwarded-by: psanjuan@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu (Pilar M. Sanjuan)
Forwarded-by: pnewton@mail.utexas.edu
In France, the young assistant pastors do not live in the main
rectory. That is reserved for the Pastor and his housekeeper.
One day the pastor invited his new young assistant pastor to have
dinner at the rectory. While being served, the young pastor noticed how
shapely and lovely the housekeeper was and he wondered...
After the meal was over, the middle-aged pastor assured the young
priest that everything was purely professional and that she was the
housekeeper and cook and that was that.
About a week later the housekeeper came to the pastor and said,
"Father, ever since the new assistant came for dinner I have not been
able to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don't suppose he
took it, do you?"
The Pastor said, " Well, I doubt it but I'll write him a letter." So
he wrote, "Dear Father, I'm not saying you did take the gravy ladle and
I'm not saying you did not take the gravy ladle. But the fact remains
that it has been missing since you were here for dinner."
The young assistant received the letter and he answered it as follows:
"Dear Father Pastor, I'm not saying that you do sleep with the housekeeper
and I'm not saying that you do not sleep with the housekeeper. But I do
know for sure that if you slept in your own bed you would find the gravy
ladle."
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