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From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Another Bell-Ringer
Message-ID: <1606@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 04:01:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 04:01:42 1985
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In article <1585@gondor.UUCP> weiss@gondor.UUCP (Michael Weiss) writes
a joke which has a followup:
>
>There was this guy who really needed a job, but he had no arms.
>The only job left in his village was that of a bell ringer for
>the town church.  He asked the priest for the job, but the priest
>expressed doubts that the poor man could do the job.  The man
>assured the priest he could do his duties, and proceeded to 
>demonstrate.  He ran up to the bell tower and ran at the bell,  
>hitting it with his face, and the bell rang!  The priest was shocked,
>but the man obviously needed a job so the priest gave it to him.
>After a month of making 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."
>
>
A few days later, the man's twin brother, who was also without arms, went
to see the priest.  After the priest expressed his condolences, he asked
the man whether there was anything he, the priest, could do for him, the
man.  The man answered that he'd like to have his brother's job, since
the family was very poor.  The priest decided that he might as well give
him the job, since the family was so poor.  The man rang the bell just as
his twin brother did, running towards it, and hitting it with his face.
One day, he ran a little too fast, and the recoil sent him reeling.
Sadly enough, he tripped over the ledge in the bell tower, and shared his
twin brother's fate.
>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 he's a dead ringer for his brother."
>