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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
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Subject: Re: May offend really stupid people...  :^)
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 16:56:21 EST
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In article  weiss@gondor.UUCP (Michael Weiss) writes:
>
>There was this guy who really needed a job, but he had no arms.
>The only job left in his village was that of a bell ringer for
>the town church.  He asked the priest for the job, but the priest
>expressed doubts that the poor man could do the job.  The man
>assured the priest he could do his duties, and proceeded to 
>demonstrate.  He ran up to the bell tower and ran at the bell,  
>hitting it with his face, and the bell rang!  The priest was shocked,
>but the man obviously needed a job so the priest gave it to him.
>After a month of make the bell toll with his face, it was finally too
>much for the man.  After one particularly beautiful tone, he staggered
>around the bell tower, fell off the ledge, plummeted to the ground, and
>died.  As he fell, the mayor of the town and the priest were walking 
>below.  The man hit the ground right in front of the two.
>
>  "Omigod!"  cried the mayor.  "Who is this poor man?"
>
>To which the priest replied...
>
>    "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell."


Then, as fate would have it, the brother of the dear departed comes
to the same town.  A fellow with muscles like Popeye, he gets the
job with no trouble.  His first day at work he's ringing the bell
for his late brother's funeral.  He fetches such a mighty like to
the bell that it returns and strikes him on the backswing, throwing
him out of the bell tower to the ground below.  The mayor sees this
and asks the crowd who is the victim of this new tragedy.  Someone
replies...

	I don't know, but he's a dead ringer for the other one!


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