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Re: Can you? (joke)
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 1999 Jun 16, 12:31 AM
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 1999 Jun 16, 12:31 AM
At 04:32 PM 6/15/99 -0700, you wrote: >Can You Pray? > >As the storm raged, the captain realized his ship was going down >fast. He shouted out, "Who here knows how to pray?" > >One man stepped forward. "Aye, Captain, I know how to pray." > >"Very well," said the captain, "you pray while the rest of us >put on our life jackets - we're one short." > >== > Follow up: Unfortunately, the cheap life jackets were defective, and were not Coast Guard approved, thus rendering them useless. The man who prayed; his prayer was answered, and by staying with the ship, was rescued by a C.G. Helocopter after calling them on his cell phone. ( The Lord helps those who help themselves, you know ) Anyway, other men were never found and were presumed lost at sea. And now you know the rest of the story. --- Goood Day. -- Gordon ,,, (. .) +-----------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo----------------------+ | Gordon Talge WB6YKK e-mail: gtalge@pe.net | | Department of Mathematics QTH: Loma Linda, CA | | Notre Dame High School Lat. N 34� 03.1' | | Riverside, CA 92506 Long. W 117� 15.2' | | http://www.pe.net/ND | +--------------------------------------------------------+