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From: ward@hao.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Possibly offensive to painters
Message-ID: <1037@hao.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jul-84 01:30:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: hao.1037
Posted: Thu Jul  5 01:30:48 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jul-84 02:36:04 EDT
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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Awhile back I felt myself in need of a few extra bucks, so I took on the 
task of giving the local church a new coat of paint.  I was doing a real 
great job until I was almost done, and got to the steeple.  At that point I 
found myself with just a half a can of paint to what was obviously a whole 
can job.  I guessed that if I went and bought another can of paint, my 
profits would vanish, to say nothing of I'd have to spend another day at the 
job.  So I just took and filled the can up with paint thinner and started 
painting.  Needless to say, the steeple looked sort of poorly when I was 
finished, but what can a man do?  As I was climbing down, the sky clouded  
over, and there was a great bolt of lightning and a clap of thunder and I 
was knocked from my scaffold to the ground.  As I stood up to see what 
was going on, tne sky opened and I saw the Lord descending.  I fell to my 
knees and covered my  eyes, and the Lord came to me and the Lord spoke to 
me, saying, "REPAINT,  and THIN NO MORE!"
-- 
Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD
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