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My Favorite Joke Ever - The Repeat
I blogged this last year for Project Blog, but I don't care if it's a repeat or not. It's my favorite joke ever, so it bears repeating for anyone who missed it last time.
One day a man with no arms was walking down the street and thinking to himself that he really needed a job. He was passing a monastery when he noticed a help wanted sign in the window. Curious he went inside to inquire about the job.
He found a monk and asked him what the job was. The monk said, "My son, it's a bell ringer's position, but I don't think you could do the job." The man replied, "If I can prove to you that I can handle the job, can I have it?" The monk agreed, so they went to the belfry.
The man looked at the bell, looked at the monk, and looked back at the bell. He went to the furthest corner from the bell and then ran at it as fast as he could. He head struck the bell sending forth a beautiful chime, so the monk told him he had the job.
For the next two weeks everything was great. The bell was always on time and the monk couldn't have been more pleased. One day, coming back to the monastery, the monk noticed a huge crowd gathered outside and police all over the place. He hurried over to one of the cops to find out what happened.
The cop told him that apparently someone had committed suicide and took him over to the ground under the belfry. The monk looked down and saw the bell ringer, who had run at the bell, missed, and fell out the belfry to his death. The cop asked him if he knew who it was. The monk replied, "Well, his face kind of rings a bell."
A few days later, the dead man's brother comes and asks for the same job. In honor of his brother, he rings the bell the same way, running head-first into the bell. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes again and this man falls to his death as well. The monk is asked by the police if he knew who this guy was and the monk says, "I don't know, but he's a dead ringer for that other guy."
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.: LittleKenny said on August 7, 2005 05:09 PM :: link it :.You're too early! Come back at August 7, 2005 01:28 AM to see this post.
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