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16. My family wasn't that funny

Reply to rationalcalgarian (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 11:45 PM

Dec 2011

but they did like Jackie Gleason, and I do remember this one from the very early 60's, when I was about five or six:

A little Irish man goes into a Catholic Church, and gets into a confessional. (Now, back in those days, there were three compartments, one for the priest in the middle, and one for each of two penitents on either side, there were sliding partitions where you couldn't hear more than mumbling from the other side.)

He's waiting a long, long time, and hearing no sounds, says, "Father, Father, are you there??" (Jackie used an Irish brogue for this.)

A voice comes back from the other side: "After he heard what I confessed, he ran to the police!"

I had just learned about what we called "The Sacrament of Confession" in Catholic school, and I knew the priest was supposed to take what he heard there to his grave, so that was pretty damned funny to me. Not sure how mother felt about it, but Dad laughed pretty hard!

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