by Lazarus » 06 Jan 2024, 9:53 pm
An old wino is sitting in a pub, nursing a schooner of cheap muscat and reading a much used Hustler magazine.
A local catholic priest, who had the annoying habit of pestering strangers to join his cult, sidled up to the wino and took him to task for his choice of reading matter.
"My son" he said to the much older man, "You shouldn't be risking your soul with filth like that, you should be reading the bible."
The wino looked at the priest with unfocused eyes and asked, "Why would I want to read that old twaddle, no bloody pictures?"
"But there are plenty of uplifting stories, like that of Samson and Delilah" declared the priest.
"Go on" said the wino.
"Well," said the priest, excited that he had another possible convert, "Samson and Delilah were down by the river one day, grinding corn in the cornfields, when a hoard of Philistines fell upon them, attacking them.
Lacking a proper weapon, Samson picked up the jaw bone of an ass, and slew 10,000 of them, and put the rest to rout."
Impressed by the tale the wino asked if there were more stories like that in the bible.
"Certainly," replied the priest, "here, take this copy and see for yourself" he said, handing the old man a bible.
Later that day the wino was sitting under a bridge, sucking on a bottle of Vin Ordinaire and reading his new book, when an acquaintance happened along.
"What the f*ck you reading that for," he asked.
The old guy replied that there were lots of good tales.
"Take the one about bloody Simpson and his Delightful," he declared, "they were down by the river, having a grind in the cornfield, when all these Filipino bastards lobbed in and attacked 'em, eh?"
"Old Simpson, he didn't f*ck around," he continued, " he picked up the arse bone of a mule, killed a thousand of the bastards and rooted the rest!"
Courage is knowing it might
hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same
.
And that's why life is hard