[1996] in Humor
HUMOR CLASSIC: Father Forgive Me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 3 16:22:26 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Cc: pito@deslab.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 15:07:35 EST
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 15:02:35 -0500
From: Todd Jackson <trjackso@fornix.mit.edu>
FATHER FORGIVE ME
An elderly priest invited a young priest over for dinner. During the
meal, the young priest couldn't help noticing how attractive and
shapely the housekeeper was. Over the course of the evening he started
to wonder if there was more between the elderly priest and the
housekeeper than met the eye.
Reading the young priest's thoughts, the elderly priest volunteered, "I
know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, my relationship with
my housekeeper is purely professional."
About a week later the housekeeper came to the elderly priest and said,
"Father, ever since the young Father came to dinner, I've been unable
to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don't suppose he took it
do you?"
The priest said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll write him a letter just to
be sure." So he sat down and wrote: "Dear Father, I'm not saying that
you 'did' take a gravy ladle from my house, and I'm not saying you 'did
not' take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing
ever since you were here for dinner."
Several days later the elderly priest received a letter from the young
priest which read: "Dear Father, I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep
with your housekeeper, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with
your housekeeper. But the fact remains that if you were sleeping in
your own bed, you would have found the gravy ladle by now."
