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I'm sorry. I just can't help myself.
Board: Yakking It Up
Dec 1, 2017 4:03am
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A small town parish priest had a man with no arms ask for work. The priest said, “I’d like to help you with employment, but I am not sure what kind of work I have that you could do.”
“I could ring the bell in the bell tower of the church.” Replied the man with no arms. “It has been silent for over a year.”

The priest was somewhat perplexed. “How would you ring the bell?” he asked.
“I will run at the bell and strike it with my head.”
To say the priest was impressed with the man’s determination, so he agreed.

The congregation loved the sound of the old bell ringing beautifully again.
Then one Sunday morning the man stumbled slightly just as he meant to strike the bell with his head. The back swing of the bell knocked him out of the bell tower.
He was killed when he hit the ground.

Two people walking by, saw the man fall, and one said to the other, “Who is that?” The second man said, “I don’t know… but his face rings a bell.”

A month later the pastor had a strange man approach him and ask to be the new bell ringer. “It was my brother that had the job until he fell,” said the man. The priest needed another bell ringer and he hired the man.

Again the local citizens were delighted with the return of the bell ringing.

A couple of years following, as the man was pulling on the rope to ring the bell, the rope snapped and he too fell out of the bell tower to his death.

The first person to find his body asked, “Who is that?” Another one said, “I don’t know, but he is a dead ringer for his brother.”
Re: I'm sorry. I just can't help myself.
Board: Yakking It Up
Reply to: #954231 by Grrly Girl
Dec 1, 2017 7:48am
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That is so awful....

so painful...

so hilarious that I have to print it out and read it to everyone I know!!!

Thanks for the Friday giggle,
Yosemite
Re: I'm sorry. I just can't help myself.
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Reply to: #954231 by Grrly Girl
Dec 1, 2017 12:55pm
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:::::GROAN:::::

bahahahahaaaa

You need help. Is there 12-step program for this?

LOL!!!
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Reply to: #954262 by MissMoon
Dec 2, 2017 6:24am
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I tried a 12 step program, but I tripped.
Re: I'm sorry. I just can't help myself.
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Reply to: #954279 by Grrly Girl
Dec 2, 2017 12:23pm
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I tried a 12 step program, but I tripped.

Ouch. I deserved that. lol