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MISINTERPRETATION

angelfj1

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One day, right in front of the St. Justin's Catholic Church, a streetcar hits a pedestrian. The man is in terrible shape and there seems to be little chance he will long survive.

The policeman says to the crowd, "Call Father Flanagan to give this poor fellow his last rights!"

Someone in the crown reminds everyone that Father Flanagan is away on sabbatical in London and isn't expected back for another two weeks.

One of the crowd steps forward and says, "I'm Morris Cohen, I'm Jewish, not Catholic... but I live just behind St. Justin, and for years I've been listening to the liturgy in the evenings.....in fact, I've memorized parts of the service. Do you think I can be of help?

The crowd parts to let Morris Cohen get close to the poor fellow. Morris takes off his jacket, rolls it up and places it under the fellows head. He then takes out his kippur (black skull cap), places it on his own head, leans over the injured man and says, "B-42,..I-41.....
N-13..."
 
HUH?
 
If it was only written in binary...
 
Might be funnier without the malformed HTML ...
 
I won't be able to sleep 'til I have the punchline.
 
Dale said:
I won't be able to sleep 'til I have the punchline.

Oh brother, so Morris says,

Under the B - 1, Under the I ....
 
*Sigh*

Maybe this will help?

bingo-card.gif


See, in some churches, church bingo is an important social event, well attended by the faithful. They pay very close attention to the "caller", who draws balls from the bin (or some similar method) and calls out the letter (B, I, N, G, or O) and number found on it. Eventually, someone has a "revelation" and jumps up crying "BINGO" in a loud voice; and the process repeats. Obviously, Morris has mistaken this for a religious ritual (a reasonable interpretation, IMO, for someone who just overhears without understanding).
 
come on guys - you haven't heard of the bingo nights at catholic parishes - you know, to raise money for various good causes???

:crazyeyes:
 
Indeed.

It cracked me up, Frank. :laugh:
 
angelfj said:
come on guys - you haven't heard of the bingo nights at catholic parishes - you know, to raise money for various good causes???

:crazyeyes:
I have, but the way the joke appeared, I couldn't read some of it. A few of the words showed up garbled, you didn't see that? Any way, thank you Basil for fixin it.
 
Doc: and I 'member that latin stuff, being an old altar boy, and so forth. I even remember when the priest was facing the other way! Know what I mean?

Frank
 
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