Dunno if this has been said before, so I'll do it anyway. Sorry if it's another "20 of them" type mishap.
A poor, hungry man stumbles into a church. Kneeling down, he exclaims, "Please lord, I am hungry; I have not eaten in days, please deliver me some food!"

Suddenly, a large piece of meat falls down in front of him, and the man promptly devours it and runs off.

The next day he returns: "Please lord, I am still hungry. Please deliver me some food!", he cries, and once again, the meat falls down, and once again he devours it.

The man comes back day after day, asking, eating, asking, eating etc, until one day a hand drops down before him. Bemused, he slowly looks up.

There was a leper painting the ceiling.
( Naive Amoeba Bored Cig, Tue 6 Dec 2005, 15:20, Reply)