by LainieJean » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:48 pm
I am not sure if these are strictly within the rules, but I don't think they could offend anyone.
A vicar's son was asked to entertain the visiting bishop while his parents prepared the lunch. The boy asked him, "Can you tell me how you become a bishop?" The bishop replied, "Well, first you have to go to church every Sunday, then be top pupil in Sunday school and later be best student at theological college. Then you get ordained and when you are the best vicar in the diocese you become a bishop".
"Oh I see" said the boy, "because I heard my dad say to my mum this morning he wondered how on earth you became a bishop".
A knight and his men return to their castle after a long hard day of fighting. "How are we faring?" asks the king. "Sire," replies the knight, "I have been robbing and pillaging on your behalf all day, burning the towns of your enemies in the West." "What?!?" shrieks the king. "I don't have any enemies to the west!" "Oh," says the knight. "Well, you do now."
The vicar had recently taken up sailing, which he enjoyed, but at which he was not too skilful. The headmistress of the girls' school approached him, and asked him to address the senior girls on the topic of Christianity and s*x. The vicar consented, but told his wife that he was to speak to the girls about sailing.
The following week, the headmistress met the vicar's wife, and enthused about the success of the vicar's talk.
The vicar's wife raised her eyebrows, and said coldly, 'Well, I'm surprised. He doesn't really know anything about it, having taken it up only recently--why, the first time he did it, he was sick; and the second time, his hat blew off'.
Little Johnny came home early from school and started calling his mother with no answer. He finally went up stairs and saw the bedroom door was open a little. When he peered in, he saw his dad on the bed with the maid so he quietly went outside and waited for his mother. When she showed up with some groceries, he said "Mommy, Mommy guess what I saw? I saw daddy upstairs on the bed with the maid and they were......." and his Mother said, "Stop right there, Johnny. Wait until supper tonight when the maid is serving the meal. When I wink at you, then tell me the story." At supper when all were seated and being served by the maid, she winked and Johnny began again. "Mommy, When I got home from school early today, I was looking for you and saw daddy on the bed with the maid. They were doing the same thing that I saw you and Uncle Phil doing at the cottage last summer."
Cheers
LJ
Detail from The Crystal Ball painted by J W Waterhouse