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The local parish priest was walking to church one day when he came upon a man fishing at a pond. The priest decided he'd love to try fishing, so he asked if the man could show him how.
The man offers the priest his rod and reel, shows the priest how to bait the hook and cast his line. No sooner than the hook hit the water than he got a bite. The man tells the priest to tug the pole and set the hook and the battle is on.
After a while, the priest reels in this huge fish. The man exclaims "Wow, what a sonofabitch!" The priest scowls at the man, and admonishes him for using such language in the presence of a man of the cloth. The man, somewhat embarassed, tells the priest: "I wasn't being profane. It's the name of the type of fish you caught." The priest, knowing nothing of this, accepts the man's excuse.
The priest takes his new catch and heads off to the church. As he enters the courtyard, he encounters one of his deacons, who asks about the fish. The priest exclaims: "Isn't this a fine sonofabitch?" The deacon starts to say something and the priest cuts him off, saying: "That's what kind of fish it is, the fisherman who helped me told me so."
The deacon tells the priest that while he was out, the church received a phone call, and the Pope himself was coming to visit this evening. The priest thinks: "I think the pope would be impressed if we prepared him a home cooked meal!" The deacon says he knows how to clean fish, so now we need to find someone who can cook it. After asking around, they locate one of the nuns who says she can cook seafood quite well.
Later that evening, the Pope pushed his chair back from the dinner table, quite filled with fresh seafood, and told them that he'd not had such a fine meal in a long time...and what kind of fish was that and who went through all this trouble just for him?
The priest exclaimed: "Well, I caught the sonofabitch!" The deacon chimed in: "I cleaned the sonofabitch!" And the nun said: "And I cooked the sonofabitch!"
The pope looked at them warily for a second, then smiled and remarked: "You know, I think I like you fuckers!"
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