Subject: Moving To Arizona
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 13:08:29 EDT
"Moving To Arizona"
On doctor's orders, Melling had moved to
Arizona. Two weeks later, he was dead.
His body was shipped back home, where
the undertaker prepared it for the services.
Melling's brother came in to make sure
everything was taken care of. "Would you
like to see the body?" the undertaker asked.
"I might as well take a look at it before the
others get here." The undertaker led him into
the next room and opened the top half of the
casket. He stood back and proudly displayed
his work.
"He looks good," the brother said. "Those two
weeks in Arizona were just the thing for him."
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"Mr Midas"
When Mr Midas was dying, he devised a plan to
take some of his fortune with him. He called the
three people he trusted the most - his priest, his
doctor, and his personal attorney. He gave them
each an envelope with $1 million in cash, and
asked them to place the money in his coffin so
that he could take it with him. All three agreed to
do so.
At the funeral, each in turn approached the coffin,
and placed their envelope inside. On leaving the
cemetery, the priest told the others, "I must confess
to you both that I only placed $700,000 in the coffin.
My church is in desperate need of repairs, so I took
the rest of the money to accomplish this worthy
project."
The doctor then said, "I must also confess; I took
$500,000 to purchase new medical equipment,
which my hospital badly needs to save people's
lives. I am sure that Mr. Midas would have
approved, if he had really thought about it".
The attorney looked at them both sternly, and said,
"You both should be ashamed of yourselves. I
followed Mr Midas' instructions to the letter. When
I put the envelope into the coffin, it contained my
personal check for the full $1 million!"
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