30th Oct 2011 Giggles - Catholic Heart Attack

You don't have to be a Catholic to enjoy this little story.
A man suffered a serious heart attack while shopping in a store. The store clerk saw him collapsed on the floor and immediately called Emergency. The paramedics rushed him to the nearest hospital where he had emergency open heart bypass surgery.

He awakened from the surgery to find himself in the care of nuns at the Catholic Hospital where he was taken into. A nun was sitting near his bed holding a clipboard loaded with several forms, and a pen. She asked him how he was going to pay for his treatment.

 

'Do you have health insurance? She asked.

'No, no health insurance.' He answered in a raspy voice.

'Do you have money in the bank?' The nun asked again.

'No money in the bank.' He replied.'

'Do you have a relative who could help with the payment?' said the slightly irritated nun.

'I only have a spinster sister, and she is a nun.'

The nun became a bit agitated and announced loudly, 'Nuns are not spinsters. They are married to God.'

'Perfect!' Said the happy patient. 'Send the bill to my brother-in-law'.

 

Tags: catholic, brotherinlaw

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30th Oct 2011 When The Cow Dies ...

Oct 30, '11 3:58 PM for everyone

Life is different and difficult in many parts of the world; it' inevitable. But the advanced modern technology in communication has make it possible to show us amazing images never seen before, of tribes whose existence we had been totally ignorant of, in far-off places not even mapped. We now see these people with very 'strange' features, more strange still their attire beyond description of fashion or, totally lacking any, wandering on the parts of the earth practically deserted, just like us, looking for a basic living. Except, we get our food, clothing and other supplies from supermarkets, every kind of shops imaginable, plus every kind of luxury imaginable and, unimaginable.

These days Somalia on TV or computer screens present us terrible vision of misery. A million people make journeys of thousands of kilometres, fleeing from the life threatening draught and, often, scenes of war. And photos, of skeleton-like children scrambling & mounting on top of one another, to receive a chunk of dry bread, is sheer anguishing. Under-nutrition is general, so is mortality.

 

I also think of the shepherds, nomads who don't have a fixed abode, having to wander from place to place with their cattle in search of water. Their livelihood are linked directly one with the other. Their animals are their only possession. But with the extended draught, the areas where a couple of months before there was still some water left, are now acrid and barren. 

What happens when the cow dies? Die too goats and sheep; being closely related, so die too the shepherds. UNICEF pronounced that in Somalia hundreds of thousands of people's lives are seriously  threatened, even with danger of extinction.

 

Hard to believe that in this the 21st century, when there seems nothing people can't do, no challenges unmet, no difficulty so complex that can't be conquered, no problems so big that can't be solved, yet we need to sit and watch humanity dying in hunger and agony, with dried out bodies of God's creatures spread all over the deserts.

I do realise this is not the theme for the 'I live to laugh' group. Today this is the only topic I can't rid from my mind. My apologies.

 

Tags: hungrypeople, cows

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