Concerning the end of the World, which was scheduled to occur yesterday
(Tuesday), according to Archbishop James Ussher, the Electronic Telegraph
reports the following joke (evidently composed prior to Tuesday):
Fed up with man's inhumanity to man, God decided to put an end to the
world the next Tuesday. To announce his decision, he summoned the three
most important people on earth: Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and Bill
Gates.
Bill Clinton went back to America and said, "I have good news and bad
news. The good news is that we are indeed one nation under God, the bad
news is that the world ends next Tuesday."
Boris Yeltsin went back to Russia and said, "I have two pieces of bad
news. The first is that, as we suspected, our atheist period was a waste
of time; the second is that the world ends next Tuesday."
Bill Gates e-mailed his followers, "I have two pieces of good news. First,
God recognizes the extent of our importance; and second, IBM stops
shipping next Tuesday!"