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That was a great one! Thank you... I actually got my wife to laugh at a joke!
Here's an oldie but goodie...
A doctor, a lawyer and a priest are stranded in a lifeboat after their cruise ship sunk. They have some emergency supplies but, after a few days, the food and water begins to run low. The panic that the three begin to feel is only heightened by their increasingly frequent sightings of sharks circling their life raft.
After 4 days without spotting so much as a single airplane, the three begin to resign themselves to the inevitable. But then, with all hope having virtually vanished, the doctor suddenly points to the distant horizon and exclaims, "Look... it's land!"
The other two are skeptical, but they rise to peer into the distance where, sure enough, they spot an island. Hope initially swells in their hearts, but then gradually diminishes as they realize that their course will lead them well clear of the island.
The physician finally mutters the inevitable... "We're not going to reach the island on this course. The only answer is for me to try to swim for shore and find some help."
Noting the menacing swarm of sharks surrounding the lifeboat, the priest objects, saying, "No, I can't let you go. After all, you save lives."
The doctor, however, immediately objects, stating, "Well, YOU can't go. You save souls!"
After a brief moment of pause, the two simultaneously cast their gaze toward the attorney who sits in the corner of the raft, dejectedly shaking his head. "Well," he murmurs, "I suppose it's up to me to give it a try." And, without another thought, the attorney dives into the water and begins to swim toward the distant shore.
The doctor and the priest watch him with dreaded anticipation. But, as they watch, they see a sight that they both initially interpret as a hallucination. As the attorney swims, the sharks part, allowing the attorney to swim, unimpeded, toward land.
The priest, in a moment of deep revery, gazes toward heaven and exclaims, "It's a miracle... a miracle!"
But the doctor places his hand on the priest's shoulder and, matter of factly explains, "Father, it's not a miracle. It's just professional courtesy." |
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