Subject: The Solution
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 12:05:10 EDT
"Billion"
"A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but
one advertising agency did a good job of putting
that figure into perspective in one of its releases:
A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living
in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20
minutes at the rate Washington spends it."
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"The Solution"
A man has been in business for many, many years and
the business is going down the drain. He is seriously
contemplating suicide and he doesn't know what to do.
He goes to the Priest to seek his advice. He tells the
Priest about all of his problems in the business and
asks the Priest what he should do.
The Priest says "Take a beach chair and a bible and put
them in your car and drive down to the edge of the ocean.
Go to the water's edge. Take the beach chair out of the
car, sit on it and take the Bible out and open it up. The
wind will rifle the pages for a while and eventually the
Bible will stay open at a particular page. Read the Bible
and it will tell you what to do."
The man does as he is told. He places a beach chair and
a Bible in his car and drives down to the beach. He sits
on the chair at the water's edge and opens the Bible. The
wind rifles the pages of the Bible and then stops at a
particular page. He looks down at the Bible and sees what
he has to do.
Three months later the man and his family come back to
see the Priest. The man is wearing a $1,000 Italian suit,
The wife is all decked out with a full-length mink coat and
the child is dressed in beautiful silk. The man hands the
Priest a thick envelope full of money and tells him that he
wants to donate this money to the church in order to thank
the Priest for his wonderful advice. The Priest is delighted.
He recognizes the man and asks him what advice in the
bible brought this good fortune to him.
The man replies: "Chapter 11."
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