krepnox
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Re: The best/worst joke you ever heard (0)
My dear, sweet, grey-haired mother was born in Poland and came here to the US as a young woman. She swears that every Polish joke ever told is absolutely true. Still, in the spirit of the thread, I will go in a different direction.
It's a sad day at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Quasimodo, the bell ringer, has gone on to his final reward. Aside from dealing with his grief, the monsignor realizes he needs a new bell ringer. So, he places an ad for a bell ringer. Early the next afternoon, there is a knock on the door of his office. He asks who is there and a voice on the other side of the door says, "It's your new bell ringer." The monsignor opens the door and sees, standing in front of him, a man with no arms.
The man sees the monsignor's expression and says, "I know you think this is a joke, but I really am a bell ringer." The monsignor asks how he could possibly be a bell ringer and the man replies, "I ring the bell with my face." At this point, the monsignor is convinced that someone is playing a joke on him, but the man insists that he really can ring bells.
Finally, the man makes the following proposal. "It's almost 3 pm. Let me show you what I can do. If I fail, I will leave and never bother you again. If I succeed, then you have a bell ringer." The monsignor realizes that he has nothing to lose so he agrees. They go up to the bell tower and the man perches very precariously on the parapet of the tower. The monsignor sights the sun over the Parisian rooftops and, when it looks like 3 pm, he gives the man the signal to go.
The man jumps up in the air and, while in mid air, leans forward quickly and smacks the bell with his face. Sure enough it rings. He jumps up a second time and rings the bell the same way. He jumps up a third time and completes the task. The monsignor is thrilled, because he realizes that he just found his new bell ringer.
Unfortunately, upon completing the third jump, the man loses his balance. He falls out of the bell tower into the large crowd of peasants that had gathered below to watch this spectacle. As the peasants gather around the now lifeless body, one peasant from the back yells out, "Does anybody know who this guy is?"
A peasant in the front yells out, (Ready?) "I don't know, but his face rings a bell."
Do you think this would work better with Hittites?
[Last edited by krepnox at 11-02-2006 11:40 PM]
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