Re: "The Golden Phone"

["BIG NIGE" <no.way@jose>]

Very good Frank !!

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."

Very good Frank !!