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- Path: sparky!uunet!looking!funny-request
- Message-ID: <S4ce.261c@looking.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 19:30:20 EST
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
- From: SCHANG@pitzer.claremont.edu
- Subject: Missionary Position
- Keywords: chuckle, true
- Approved: funny@clarinet.com
- Lines: 61
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- This is a true story that happened to me only a few years ago...
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- I'm a 3rd generation Cantonese-American and have pretty much
- forgotten the language. Hey, I wasn't even raised with it spoken in
- my household, but I live in a predominantly Asian neighborhood anyway.
- Well, Mormons, whom we all know and love(*cough*), have to save their
- money during childhood so that they may go on missionary expeditions
- when they hit seventeen years of age or so. Some even become Urban
- Mormons, where they trek to distant(?) parts of Suburbia, seeking
- converts.
- So, one day, there was a knock at my door. So upon answering,
- Lo! And Behold! Who should be standing there, but two young, aspiring
- Jehovah's Witn-... I mean, Mormon Missionaries. Both were Caucasian,
- and one was holding a copy of Halston's Mandarin/English Dictionary.
- The Mormon holding the dictionary greeted me in a foreign language,
- presumably Mandarin, which I didn't understand. However, I chose to
- say nothing; I merely furrowed my brow and intensified my gaze.
- Astute, as they were, the missionaries were quick to realize that I
- had not comprehended a single word they said, so they squabbled:
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- Missionary #1: I told you he wasn't Mandarin.
- Missionary #2: Apparently not. He's probably wondering what
- we're trying to say.
- Missionary #1: Maybe he's Vietnamese.
- Missionary #2: (Pulls out Vietnamese/English Dict.) Perhaps.
- The Word of God was meant to reach all tongues.
-
- So the second Missionary repeated his greeting in Vietnamese.
- I only shrugged my shoulders. The other Mormon pulled out a Japanese
- Dictionary, assuming that I might have been the same. Again, I merely
- shrugged, and we ran the same gauntlet for the Korean language. I
- had to admit, though, that I began to tire of this game. Taking a
- deep breath, I shouted,
-
- "YOU DAMN FOREIGNERS! WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME
- FROM AND STOP TAKING OUR JOBS?!?"
-
- With that, I slammed the door in a grandoise fashion and
- couldn't stop laughing for two hours afterward.
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-
- T.S. Elliot(who wrote the book that Cats was based on) had a
- more novel method of dealing with door-to-door missionaries. One day,
- some Jehovah's Witnesses showed up on his doorstep with a can and
- said, "Money for Jehovah?" To which Elliot responded, "Great! I'm
- Jehovah! How much have you gathered for me?"
-
- They left in a huff.
-
-
-
- -Shadowmage
- (Solomon Chang)
-
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