Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!act From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: religious joke (may not be for the sensitive) Message-ID: <1546@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 22:20:31 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1546 Posted: Mon Dec 3 22:20:31 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 09:10:24 EST Distribution: net Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 16 A little boy is sitting in front of a creche writing a letter to the Virgin Mary asking her to intercede with God vis a vis his Christmas present. "Dear Blessed Virgin," he wrote, "If you make sure I get that bike, I'll do the dishes for a month." The boy read what he wrote & thought about it. That's too long, he decided, so he crumpled up the piece of paper & started again. "Dear Blessed Virgin," he wrote, "If you make sure I get that bike, I'll do the dishes for a week." The boy read what he wrote & thought about it. That's too long, he decided, so he crumpled up the piece of paper & stared despondently at the creche. Suddenly, he snatched the baby from the creche & wrote: "Dear Blessed Virgin, if you ever want to see your kid again..."