01/05/06 Grif.Net - Taping the Message

[Dr Bob Griffin]

A minister developed quite a reputation for his sermons, so much so that
everyone in the community came every service. Unfortunately, one weekend a
member had to visit Long Island for his nephew's birthday. But he didn't
want to miss the pastor's sermon. So he decided to hire a stand-in to sit in
the congregation and tape the sermon so he could listen to it when he
returned.

Other congregates saw what was going on, and they also decided to hire their
own stand-ins to tape the sermon so they could play golf or go fishing
instead of going to church. Within a few weeks time there were 500 stand-ins
sitting in the church taping the minister.

The minister got wise to this. The following Sunday he, too, hired a
stand-in that brought a tape recorder to play his prerecorded sermon to the
500 stand-in's in the congregation who dutifully recorded his words on their
machines.

Witnesses said this marked the first incidence in history of "artificial
insermonation".

[Oh, my]

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Dr Bob
I'm nobody's fool, but am available for adoption