A bad person dies and is greeted by Saint Peter. Peter tells the man he must
choose between three hells.
The
first hell is very hot and he sees a lot of people burning in fire. The next
hell is freezing cold and he sees people shivering and clamoring. In the third
hell, he sees people standing in shit up to their waist but they look quite
happy. They are drinking a cup of coffee and are chatting with each other. So
the bad person says to Peter, "I choose the third hell with all the people
standing in shit up to their waist."
So Peter admits the bad person to the third hell. He gets a cup of coffee
and feels quite comfortable. Suddenly he hears a beep from a loud speaker that
says, "Attention. Attention. Coffee break is over. It's time to stand on your
head now."
° ° °
After a preacher died and went to heaven, he
noticed that a New York cab driver had been awarded a higher place than he.
"I don't
understand," he complained to God. "I devoted my entire life to my
congregation."
"Our policy here in heaven is to reward results," God
explained. "Now, was your congregation well attuned to you whenever you gave a
sermon?"
"Well," the minister had to admit, "some in the
congregation fell asleep from time to time."
"Exactly," said God, "and when people rode in this
man's taxi, they not only stayed wake, they even
prayed."
° ° °
A priest dies and
goes to heaven. There, he is met by a reception committee, and after a whirlwind
tour is told that he can enjoy any of the myriad recreations
available.
He decides that he wants to read all of the ancient
original text of the Holy Scriptures, and spends the next eon or so learning the
languages. After becoming a linguistic master, he sits down in the library and
begins to pore over every version of the Bible, working back from the most
recent "Easy Reading Version" to the original
script.
All of a sudden there is a scream in the library. The
angels come running to him, only to find the priest huddled in a chair, crying
to himself, and muttering, "An "R"! They left out the
'R'."
God
takes him aside, offering comfort and asks him what the problem is. After
collecting his wits, the priest sobs again, "It's the letter "R" ... the word
was supposed to be CELEBRATE!"
° ° °
Lying in the hospital bed, a dying man began to flail about
and make motions as if he would like to speak. The priest, keeping watch at the
side of his bed, leaned quietly over and asked, "Do you have something you would
like to say?"
The man nodded to the affirmative, and the priest handed
him a pad and pen.
"I know you can't speak, but use this to write a note and I
will give it to your wife. She's waiting just
outside."
Gathering his last bit of strength, the man took them and
scrawled his message upon the pad which he stuffed into the priest's
hands.
Then, moments later, the man
died.
After administering the last rites, the priest left to
break the sad news to the wife. After consoling her a bit, the priest handed her
the note.
"Here were his last words. Just before passing on, he wrote
this message to you."
The wife tearfully opened the note which read: "GET OFF MY
OXYGEN HOSE!!"
° ° °
A man died and went to The Judgment. St. Peter
met him at the Gates of Heaven and said, "Before you meet with God, I thought I
should tell you -- we've looked at your life, and your really didn't do anything
particularly good or bad. We're not at all sure what to do with you. Can you
tell us anything you did that can help us make a decision?"
The newly
arrived soul thought for a moment and replied, "Yeah, once I was driving along
and came upon a woman who was being harassed by a group of bikers. So I pulled
over, got out my tire iron, and went up to the leader of the bikers. He was a
big, muscular, hairy guy with tattoos all over his body and a ring pierced
through his nose. Well, I tore the nose ring out of his nose, and told him he
and his gang had better stop bothering the woman or they would have to deal with
me!"
"I'm impressed," St. Peter responded, "When did this happen?"
"About two minutes ago," came the reply.
° ° °
A newlywed farmer and his wife were visited by
her mother, who immediately demanded an inspection of the place. The farmer had
genuinely tried to be friendly to his new mother-in-law, hoping that it could be
a friendly, non-antagonistic relationship. All to no avail though, as she kept
nagging them at every opportunity, demanding changes, offering unwanted advice,
and generally making life unbearable to the farmer and his new bride.
While they were walking through the barn, during the forced
inspection, the farmer's mule suddenly reared up and kicked the mother-in-law in
the head, killing her instantly. It was a shock toall no matter their feelings
toward her demanding ways.
At the funeral service a few days
later, the farmer stood near the casket and greeted folks as they walked by. The
pastor noticed that whenever a woman would whisper something to the farmer, he
would nod his head yes and say something. Whenever a man walked by and whispered
to the farmer, however, he would shake his head no, and mumble a reply.
Very curious as to this bizarre behavior, the pastor later asked
the farmer what that was all about. The farmer replied, "The women would say,
'What a terrible tragedy' and I would nod my head and say 'Yes, it was.' The men
would then ask, 'Can I borrow that mule?' and I would shake my head and say,
'Can't, it's all booked up for a year.'"
° ° °
In a tiny village lived an old maid. In spite
of her old age, she was still a virgin. She was very proud of it.
She knew her last days were getting closer, so she told the local
undertaker that she wanted the following inscription on her tombstone:
"Born as a virgin, lived as a virgin, died as a virgin."
Not
long after, the old maid died peacefully, and the undertaker told his men what
the lady had said.
The men went to carve it in, but being the
lazy no-goods they were, they thought the inscription to be unnecessarily long.
They simply wrote:
"Returned unopened."