[AT] Fw: silver screw

[Larry Goss]

Good grief, H. L.  It's been at least 50 years since I've heard that one.  It's still good, though.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "H. L. Staples" <hlstaples at mcloudteleco.com>
Date: Monday, November 10, 2008 20:16
Subject: [AT] Fw: silver screw
To: Antique tractor <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

>  
>  
> Our good friend Bear Hood sends this along.  
> 
> Enjoy 
>  
> Once upon a time, a young lad was born without a belly button. 
> In its place,
> was a silver screw. All the doctors told his mother that there 
> was nothing
> they could do. Like it or not, he was stuck with it..... He was 
> screwed.
> 
> All the years of growing up was real tough on him, as all who 
> saw the screw
> made fun of him. He avoided ever leaving his house.... And thus, 
> never made
> any friends.
> 
> 
> One day, a mysterious stranger saw his belly and told him of a 
> swami in
> Tibet who could get rid of the screw for him. He was thrilled. 
> The next day,
> he took all of his life's savings and bought a ticket to Nepal
> 
> 
> After several days of climbing up steep cliffs, he came upon a giant
> monastery. The swami knew exactly why he had come. The screwy 
> guy was told
> to sleep in the highest tower of the monastery.... And the 
> following day
> when he awoke, the screw would have been removed.
> 
> The man immediately went to the room and fell asleep. During the 
> night while
> he slept, a purple fog floated in an open window, bearing in its 
> mist, a
> solid silver screwdriver. In just moments, the screwdriver 
> removed the screw
> and disappeared out the window.
> 
> 
> The next morning when the man awoke, he saw the silver screw 
> laying on the
> pillow next to him. Reaching down, he felt his navel, and there 
> was no screw
> there!
> 
> 
> Jubilant, he leaped out of bed...... And his butt fell off.
> 
> 
> The moral to this is:
> 
> 'Don't screw around with things you don't understand........ You 
> could lose
> your ass.' 
>  
>  
>  
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