Here's a good story that'll warm yer heart.........
PRILEP, Yugoslavia (AP) - Outside a small Macedonian village close to the
border between Greece and strife-torn Yugoslavia, a lone Catholic nun
keeps a quiet watch over a silent convent. She is the last caretaker of
the site of significant historical developments spanning more than 2,000
years.
When Sister Maria Cyrilla of the Order of the Perpetual Watch dies,
the convent of St. Elias will be closed by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch
of Macedonia.
However, that isn't likely to happen soon as Sister Maria, 53, enjoys
excellent health. By her own estimate, she walks 10 miles daily about the
grounds of the convent, which once served as a base for the army of
Attila the Hun. In more ancient times, a Greek temple to Eros, the god
of love, occupied the hilltop site.
Historians say that Attila took over the old temple in 439 A.D.
and used it as a base for his marauding army. The Huns are believed to
have first collected and then destroyed a large gathering of Greek legal
writs at the site. It is believed that Attila wanted to study the Greek
legal system and had the writs and other documents brought to the temple.
Scholars differ on why he had the valuable documents destroyed - either
because he was barely literate and couldn't read them, or because they
provided evidence of democratic government that did not square with his
own notion of rule by an all-powerful tyrant.
When the Greek church took over the site in the 15th Century and the
convent was built, church leaders ordered the pagan statue of Eros
destroyed, so another ancient Greek treasure was lost.
Today, there is
only the lone sister, watching over the old Hun base, amidst the strife
of war torn Yugoslavia, and when she goes, that will be it.
Thus, that's how it ends, with No Huns, no writs, no Eros, and nun
left on base...................play ball !
Then there's this one...
Three elderly women go to their first ever baseball game accompanied by a bottle of good old Jack Daniels. As the game progresses, the girls imbibe. Suddenly, one of them notices that their refreshment of choice is gone...bottle's empty. So in what inning did this occur and how many men were on base?
Painful. Really.
You need to join the Freeper Freepun' Ping List.
Let me know if you want to suffer like you have made others suffer with that stinker.
Excellent :o)