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Subject: [BRHSlist] Paint or repent
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:55:46 -0700 (PDT)
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> > There was a tradesman, a painter called Wayne, who
> was very interested in
> > making a penny where he could, so he often would
> thin down paint to make
> it
> > go a wee bit further.
> >
> > As it happened, he got away with this for some
> time, but eventually the
> > Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job
> on the painting of one
> of
> > their biggest buildings. Wayne put in a bid, and
> because his price was so
> > low, he got the job.
> >
> > And so he set to erecting the trestles and setting
> up the planks, and
> buying
> > the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it
> down with turpentine.
> >
> > Well, Wayne was up on the scaffolding, painting
> away, the job nearly
> > completed when suddenly there was a horrendous
> clap of thunder, and the
> >
> > sky opened, the rain poured down, washing the
> thinned paint from all over
> > the church and knocking Wayne clear off the
> scaffold to land on the lawn
> > among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale
> puddles of the thinned and
> > useless paint.
> >
> > Wayne was no fool. He knew this was a judgment
> from the Almighty, so he
> got
> > on his knees and cried: "Oh, God! Forgive me! What
> should I do?"
> > And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke...
> >
> > (you're going to love this)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Repaint! Repaint!  And thin no more!" 


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