fidel and pope joke

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1 total messages Started by Vera M. Britto Fri, 06 Feb 1998 00:00

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Author: Vera M. Britto
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 00:00

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   *The Pope and Fidel were walking along Havana's Malecon (sea wall)
and a big gust of wind blew the Pope's little cap off which landed in
the sea.  A gracious host, Fidel bounded to the rescue, leaping the
sea wall and striding across the waves until he reached the cap, then
turned and walked back across the water until he reached the Pope and
deposited the somewhat damp little cap on the Pope's head.  All in
front of 3000 journalists.

    Headlines in the Cuban daily Granma read:  Fidel Performs a
Miracle!  Walks on Water!.

    The daily newspaper in the Vatican had a different lead:  Pope
Does a Miracle!  Makes Fidel Walk on Water!

    But the the Miami Herald read it altogether differently.  Their
lead:  Aging Fidel Can't Swim!


Vera Britto
(fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux)
............................................................................
Le Bret: Si tu laissais un peu ton ame mousquetaire, la fortune et la
gloire...  Cyrano:  Et que faudrait-il faire? Chercher un protecteur
puissant, prendre un patron, et, comme un lierre obscur que circonvient
un tronc et s'en fait un tuteur en lui lechant l'ecorce, grimper par
ruse au lieu de s'elever par force? Non, merci! Non, merci! Non, merci!
Mais... chanter, rever, rire, passer, etre seul, etre libre... oui.
                                "Cyrano de Bergerac" - Edmond Rostand

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