Re: "The Golden Phone"

["Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here we have somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 evacuees from New Orleans
and other Louisiana locations.  A local news reporter was interviewing
families still in Louisiana and made the comment, "I know you must be
devastated by the loss of all of your Churches" to which the Neworleanian
replied, "No mam, it ait so bad, we's just go to Popeyes"

(Sorry)


"Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:SxJuf.15906$tl.5190@xxxxxxxxxxx
>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."
>