Posted on 08/16/2021 9:28:45 AM PDT by sodpoodle
One Sunday, in counting the money in the weekly offering, the pastor of a small church found a pink envelope containing $1,000. It happened again the next week!
The following Sunday, he watched as the offering was collected and saw an elderly woman put the distinctive pink envelope on the plate. This went on for weeks until the pastor, overcome by curiosity, approached her.
"Ma'am, I couldn't help but notice that you put $1,000 a week in the collection plate," he stated.
"Why, yes," she replied, "every week my son sends me money, and I give some of it to the church."
The pastor replied, "That's wonderful. But $1,000 is a lot; are you sure you can afford this? How much does he send you?"
The elderly woman answered, "$10,000 a week."
The pastor was amazed. "Your son is very successful; what does he do for a living?"
"He is a veterinarian," she answered.
"That's an honorable profession, but I had no idea they made that much money," the pastor said. "Where does he practice?"
The woman answered proudly, "In Nevada. He has two cat houses, one in Las Vegas, and one in Reno"
Funny. Thanks for sharing.
LOL!!! First laugh of the day :-)
Made me laugh...Thank you
We are all sinners.
Any church would be without money if it turned down all money from sinners.
I'll take this bet, nothing really salacious, just fun with language using colloquialisms. Thanks for the smile!
On a related note, I sometimes wonder if this is the other side of the coin of English being so hard to learn by non-speakers? As a supremely mongrel language, English has so many ways to pun and to do word plays like the above. So the query is to my fellow FReepers who are skilled in this area, are there other languages that have the depth to do such multiple word plays?
The only issue with this is that cat houses are not legal in Clark County, which is where Vegas is, or Washoe County, where Reno is.
Who said they were legal?
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