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Ole Grizzly


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A pastor concluded that his church was getting into  very serious   financial troubles. While checking the church storeroom,  he discovered several cartons of new Bibles that had never been  opened and distributed.

So at his Sunday sermon, he asked for  three volunteers from the congregation who would be willing to sell  the Bibles door-to-door for $10 each to raise the desperately needed  money for the church.

Jack, Paul and Louie all raised their hands  to volunteer for the task.

The minister knew that Jack and Paul  earned their living as salesmen and were likely capable of selling  some Bibles. But he had serious doubts about Louie who was a local  farmer, who had always kept to himself because he was embarrassed by  his speech impediment. Poor Louis stuttered bad ly. But, NOT WANTING  TO discourage Louis, the minister decided to let him try  anyway.

He sent the three of them away with the back seat of  their cars stacked with Bibles. He asked them to meet with him and  report the results of their door-to-door selling efforts the  following Sunday.

Anxious to find out how successful they were,  the minister immediately asked Jack, 'Well, Jack, how did you make  out selling our Bibles last week?'

Proudly handing the  reverend an envelope, Jack replied, 'Using my sales prowess, I was  able to sell 20 Bibles, and here's the $200 I collected on behalf of  the church.'

'Fine job, Jack!' The minister said, vigorously  shaking his hand. 'You are indeed a fine salesman and the Church is  indebted to you.'

Turning to Paul, 'And Paul, how many Bibles did  you sell for the Church last week?' Paul, smiling and sticking  out his chest, confidently replied, 'I am a professional salesman. I  sold 28 Bibles on behalf of the church, and  here's $280 I  collected.'

The minister responded, 'That's absolutely splendid,  Paul. You are truly a professional salesman and the church is  indebted to you.'

Apprehensively, the minister turned to Louie  and said, 'And Louie, did you manage to sell any Bibles last week?'  Louie silently offered the minister a large envelope.

The  minister opened it and counted the contents. 'What is this?' the minister exclaimed. 'Louie, there's $3200 in here! Are you suggesting  that you sold 320 Bibles for the church, door to door, in just one  week?'

Louie just nodded. That's impossible!' both Jack and Paul  said in unison. 'We are professional salesmen, yet you claim to have  sold 10 times as many Bibles as we c ould.'

'Yes, this does  seem unlikely,'  said the minister who didn't want to appear to be  a greed. 'I think you'd better explain how you managed to accomplish  this, Louie.'

Louie shrugged. 'I-I-I re-re-really do-do-don't  kn-kn-know f-f-f-for sh-sh-sh-sure,' he  stammered.

Impatiently, Peter interrupted. 'For crying out loud,  Louie, just tell us what you said to them when they answered the  door!'

'A-a-a-all I-I-I s-s-said wa-wa-was,' Louis replied,  'W-w-w-w-would y-y-y-you l-l-l-l-l-like t-t-to b-b-b-buy  th-th-th-this B-B-B-B-Bible F-f-for t-t-ten b-b-b-bucks  ---o-o-o-or--- wo-wo-would yo-you j-j-j-just l-like m-m-me t-t-to st-st-stand h-h-here and  r-r-r-r-r-read it t-to  y-y-you??'


Remember when the funniest jokes were the clean  ones?  They still are!

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RobCol


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VERY GOOD!!! it is nice to read one without smut for a change .!!

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oh colleen, we are all grown ups here arent we?? but yes a good clean joke all the same, not that I'm against the dirty ones, just dont like the one's that downgrade women, they get up my goat very quickly

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Very Very Good LOL

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