Lol lol lol lol!!!  Very funny and I wish you had been able to tape record
that, too!  Lol!

Littlekat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 8:32 PM
Subject: A PC incorrect practical joke


The following is a true story.

     So here is how it happened.  Two other preachers and I were
in the car and on our way over the Rocky Mountains from western
Colorado to a state preachers convention being held in Denver.  A
cowboy, whose wife played the piano in our church, had just gotten
saved.  He's a pastor now himself but at the time, he hadn't been
born again very long and on top of that, he had never been around
practical joke playing preachers before.

     When we got to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, we stopped at a
restaurant because a local pastor was going to meet us there and
ride with us to the conference.  This pastor we were picking up,
had been to Bible college with the pastor who was driving and they
were best friends.  So between them, and before returning to the
car, they decided to play a joke on the cowboy Christian who had
just gotten born again.

     The pastor's name we picked up was Larry.  I already knew
Larry quite well so they knew I would catch on right away and
would play along with the gag.  Larry started to climb into the
car and the pastor who was driving introduced him to the cowboy.
Larry talked very slow and acted like he had a speech impediment
and he likewise didn't act as if he were too bright.  I know it
wasn't politically correct but this was before politically
correctness was invented so rest easy.  It's just a joke we played
and nothing more.  It means nothing.  There is no theological
lesson to be learned or anything so relax.  There's not even any
social ramifications or implications so don't get your tail in a
knot.  If you are blind or have a speech impediment, or both, I'm
sorry if you are offended.  It isn't about you and we weren't
making fun of you.  It was just something three preachers cooked
up on the fly, sort of speak.  Ok, so maybe it was wrong.  Can you
forgive us and see that it just might possibly be funny?  All
right.  I won't tell the story then.

     So Larry climbs into the back seat and we take off.  Larry is
trying to carry on a conversation with the cowboy, which wasn't
very easy to understand, because Larry was doing his best to sound
like his jaw had lost a screw or something.  Of course, the cowboy
was trying to be as kind and polite as he could so he was
attempting to do his best to act as if he understood what in the
Sam hill Larry was talking about, which was, I might add, an
impossibility.

     To spice things up, I jumped into the conversation and after
a few minutes of impossible conversation, I told Larry, in no
uncertain terms, if he could talk like a normal person, just maybe
poor cowboy Jerry could understand what he was saying.  Larry got
mad, of course, or pretended to, and Larry and I began to argue.
Before too long, Larry was telling me how stupid I was for being
a blind idiot, and we were calling each other names and it sounded
like we were about to kill each other.  Finally, the driver,
Larry, and myself couldn't stand it any longer and we all began
laughing ourselves silly.

     When things calmed down, Larry started talking normal and we
tried to explain to Jerry what we had done to him.  Of course, he
tried to say he was never fooled but we knew better.  It was a
perfect set up and unrehearsed and to this day, I wish I would
have had a tape recorder playing during the whole thing.

Phil.