Re: "The Golden Phone"

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But it was probably one of the hand-crank phones right?


"Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|A reporter decided to write a book about famous churches around the
| world.  For his first chapter he decided to write about American
| churches. So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to Orlando,
| thinking that he would work his way across the country from South to
North.
|
| On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he
| noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read
| "$10,000.00 per call". The reporter, being intrigued, asked a priest who
| was strolling by what the telephone was used for.  The priest replied
| that it was a direct line to Heaven and that for $10,000.00 one could
| talk to God.  The reporter politely thanked the priest and went along
| his way.
|
| Next stop was in Atlanta, there, at a very large cathedral, he saw the
| same golden telephone with the same sign under it. He wondered if this
| was the same kind of telephone he saw in Orlando and asked a nearby nun
| what its purpose was? She told him that it was a direct line to Heaven
| and that for $10,000.00 he could talk to God.
|
| "O.K. thanks" said the reporter.
|
| He then traveled to Indianapolis, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Boston
| and New York, then on to Portland and north to Seattle. In every church
| he saw the same golden telephone with the same $10,000.00 per call sign
| under it.
|
| Upon leaving Seattle, the reporter saw a sign saying "Route 5 North to
| Vancouver, CANADA" and decided to see if Canadians had the same golden
| telephone.
|
| He drove for awhile and finally arrived in White Rock, BC and sure
| enough, there again in the local church was the same golden telephone,
| only this time the sign under it read "25 cents per call". The reporter
| was surprised and so intrigued that he asked the church's pastor about
| the sign.
|
| "Father, I've traveled all over America and I've seen this same golden
| telephone in many churches.  I'm told that it is a direct line to
| Heaven, but in every state the price was $10,000.00 per call. Why is it
| so cheap here?"
|
| The priest smiled and answered: "You're in Canada now son, it's a local
| call."