Prayer for sale
The CEO of Tyson Chicken goes to the Pope. "Your Holiness," he says, "Tyson Chicken will donate $1 million to the Vatican if you change the words in the Lord's Prayer from 'give us this day our daily bread' to 'give us this day our daily chicken'."

"Absolutely not!" the Pope screams, "No way! That prayer was given to us by Jesus himself!"

"Okay," the CEO says, "how about $5 million?"

"Um," the Pope considers. "We could sure do a lot with $5 million, but nope, can't do it."

"Okay, $10 million."

"Done."

So the CEO hands over the cash, and the Pope calls the Cardinals together. "I got good news and bad news," he says. "Good news is, I just got a contribution for $10 million. Bad news is, we lost the WonderBread account."
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:30, Reply)