--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