Posted by Phil on February 15, 1999 at 13:32:37:
>> FATHER
>>
>> St. Peter gets fed up with standing at the pearly gates and giving or
>> denying access to Heaven. St. Peter needed to take a break, so he
>>noticed
>> Jesus walking by and asked him to watch the front desk for a bit.
>>Jesus
>> said he'd be happy to.
>> In a little bit an old man came up to the desk very slowly. Jesus
>>took out
>> form 85-A/j and started getting the information.
>> "I'm looking for my son." the old man says.
>> "And who are you?" says Jesus.
>> "I'm his Father; well not really." says the man.
>> "Where are you from?" The old man said he was from the Mediterranean
>>Sea
>> area.
>> "What did you do in life?"
>> "I was a carpenter," was the reply. Jesus smiled because this was a
>> profession he could relate to. "Did you have many children?" he
>>asked
>> kindly. The old man said,
>> "Just one son, and he was unlike any other child on earth." Jesus
>>looked
>> closely at the old man and asked,
>> "Did anything unusual occur the night he came to you?"
>> "Oh yes," the old man said, "There was this incredibly brilliant star
>>in
>> the sky that lit up all the heavens."
>> "And does your son have holes in his hands and feet?" asks Jesus
>>excitedly.
>> "He does!" shouts the man Jesus put down the 85-A/j form and holds
>>out his
>> hands, "Father!"
>> The old man looked at Jesus with joy on his face and asked,
>> "Pinocchio??"