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[pct-l] VVR.... my final words
At 08:00 AM 4/6/05, larry hillberg wrote:
>"I'm going to be moving to your
>town, and I want to know what kind of people you got
>living here." Pete, politely, answered, "I don't
>rightly know. What kind of people live in the town
>where you live now?" "Jerks and assholes" said the
>stranger, "nothing but jerks and assholes."
I heard this one in a sermon several years ago, only it was "wise old man
who sat at the gate of an ancient city."
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There was a wise old man who sat at the gate of an ancient city. A young
traveler stopped before entering the city and asked the old man, "What kind
of people live in this town?" The wise man answered with a question: "What
kind of people were in the town from which you came?" "Oh, they were liars
and cheats and thugs and drunks, terrible people," the young traveler
replied. The old man shook his head, "The people in this town are the same
way." Later another stranger paused to ask the same question, and again the
wise man questioned his questioner: "What kind of people did you just
leave?" The second traveler answered, "Oh, I left a fine town. The people
were good and kind and honest and hardworking." The wise old man smiled and
said, "The people in this town are the same way."