Rotten Eggs

[YourNameIsHoly]

An elderly pastor was searching his closet for his collar before church one Sunday morning. In the back of the closet, he found a small box containing 3 eggs and 100 $1 bills.

He called his wife into the closet to ask her about the box and its contents. Embarrassed, she admitted having hidden the box there for their entire 30 years of marriage. Disappointed and hurt, the pastor asked her, "WHY?"

The wife replied that she hadn't wanted to hurt his feelings. He asked her how the box could have hurt his feelings. She said that every time during their marriage that he had delivered a poor sermon, she had placed an egg in the box.

The pastor felt that 3 poor sermons in 30 years was certainly nothing to feel bad about, so he asked her what the $100 was for. She replied, "Each time I got a dozen eggs, I sold them to the neighbours for $1."

God Bless,
Sarah

 

[tqpix]

The bright blue text you used to post is not easy on the eyes.

 

[newlite]

yes, and

 

[J'r'd]

now that's funny, only 357(not accounting for leap years) good sermons in 30 years

 

[peggysue17]

lol

 

[choop1212]

funny

 

[loony]

good joke

 

[Garzy]

Lol! :d

 

[Diamonds2004]

very funny. Plus, it was clean humor. Got to love it !

 

[jesusfreak1991]

lololololololololololololololo

 

[Joshua Howard]

now that's funny, only 357(not accounting for leap years) good sermons in 30 years

The Math:

We assume that the pastor preaches three times every week (Sunday Morning, Evening, and Wednesday Night). This is translated to the motion that he preaches 144 times in the average year... approximately twelve times per month.

One Hundred multiplied by Twelve turns out to Twelve Thousand, One Hundred (Plus three eggs) -- 1203... Assuming that he preached for thirty years, we conclude that he had 4320 sermons under his belt. This means that his ratio of Good sermons vs. Bad sermons is 4320/1203... Simplified to about 4/1, we see that of every four sermons, one was deemed unfavorable by his wife.

Not really as bad as it would seem, statistically -- Rather than observing numbers, one does well to study the psychology of the wife. The fact that she delt with mental duress by gathering eggs tells us that she probably didn't have it all together to start with anyway, in which case, it probably isn't the pastor's fault.

So in conclusion, If I were the judge, I'd probably take the side of the pastor.

 

[Ehud7135]

rofl