Phil,
Guess it was one of those "you would have to have been there to really
appreciate it" times.
Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:32 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.
>