A chuckle ....

[auntAgonist]

St. Peter is questioning three married couples to see if they qualify for admittance to heaven.

"Why do you deserve to pass through the Pearly Gates?" he asks one of the men, who had been a butler.

"I was a good father," he answers.

"Yes, but you were a lifelong drunk. In fact, you were so bad you even married a woman named Sherry. No admittance."

St. Peter then turned to the next man, a carpenter, and asked him the same question.

The carpenter replied that he had worked hard and taken good care of his family.

But St. Peter also rejected him, pointing out that he had been an impossible glutton, so much so that he married a woman named Candy.

At this point the third man, who had been a loan officer, stood up and said, "Come on, Penny, let's get out of here."

[bertha katzenengel]

1. *chuckle* indeed. Here's one.

Ever heard of Jerry Clower? He's gone now, but he was a humorist from either Louisiana or Mississippi (don't remember which). They play his tales a lot on XM 151, Laugh USA.

This one is about a general store owner who never rang up a sale without quoting scripture. For example, if a little kid bought a Tootsie Roll, he'd say, "Suffer the little children to come unto me." The old guys sitting around the store always waited with amusement to hear what scripture he'd quote.

One day a guy rolled in in a big expensive truck, pulling a shiny horse trailer. He walked into the store and said "I've got a prize-winning horse out there and I need the best horse blanket you have."

The store owner went into the back and brought out a horse blanket, and said, "That'll be five dollars."

The customer said, "I don't think you heard me. That is a prize thoroughbred out there, from one of the best bloodlines in this country and probably all the world. He deserves the BEST blanket!"

The store owner went out back again and picked out another blanket - he only had but one kind in stock - of a different color. He took it out and told the man, "this one is better quality, twenty-five dollars."

Now the customer was indignant. "You just don't get it. I'm not putting a cheap ol' $25 blanket on that horse! Now get me the best or I'll go elsewhere!"

The store owner said "yes, sir, I understand," and went to the shelf in back, choosing yet a different color. He took it out and said, "this is the best blanket I have, sir, and it's fifty dollars."

"Now that's more like it!" said the customer. "I'll take it."

The store owner rung up the sale, and as the customer walked out, the old guys sitting around the store waited to hear what scripture he could possibly come up with for this one.

The owner looked up to heaven and said, "He was a stranger, and I took him in."

[auntAgonist]

2. I DO remember Jerry Clower!

Didn't he used to have a really funny way of making a noise, not sure how to explain it , but yeah, I do remember him.

LOVED the story!!!!

took him in indeed.

Happy New Year to you and MrsV!

:hug::loveya:

[bertha katzenengel]

4. Happy New Year, Kesha

:loveya: :grouphug:

[Orsino]

3. "Come on, FANNY, let's get out of here."

The way I heard it.

[auntAgonist]

5. .

:rofl: