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From: biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: May offend really stupid people...  :^)
Message-ID: <418@klipper.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 08:05:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 08:05:26 1985
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Summary: The third brother

In article <347@topaz.ARPA> josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) writes:
>
> ...
>> After a month of make the bell toll with his face, it was finally too
>> much for the man.  After one particularly beautiful tone, he staggered
>> around the bell tower, fell off the ledge, plummeted to the ground, and
>> died.  As he fell, the mayor of the town and the priest were walking 
>> below.  The man hit the ground right in front of the two.
>> 
>>   "Omigod!"  cried the mayor.  "Who is this poor man?"
>> 
>> To which the priest replied...
>> 
>>     "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell."
>
>I can't resist--here's the rest of the joke:
>
>The next day another armless man came up to the priest and asked for
>the same job.  He explained that he was the brother of the dead man.
>The priest gave him the job, cautioning him about the dangers.
>Nevertheless, soon after the new man also falls off the belfry,
>by coincidence, in front of the priest and the mayor.
>
>"And who's he?" the mayor asks...
>
>"I don't know," said the priest, "but he's a dead ringer for his brother."
>
>--JoSH

Still forgetting a part:

The day after that, the third brother comes and asks for the job. The priest
tries to dissuade him from taking it, but the man keeps insisting:

	"No danger at all: it's completely armless!"
-- 
							  Biep.
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I utterly disagree with  everything  you are saying,  but I 
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