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A Bad Joke
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When I was younger and just graduated from

college, we moved into a new area and into a new
home. The church I was part of had decided to
move all record keeping to computers. The

problem was, back then very few people knew
how to use a computer. So, the congregational
leader, who went by the title of bishop, asked if I

would help enter the records into the computer.
One piece of this had to do with the
donations the members of the congregation gave

to the church. On Sunday afternoons, I worked
with a Henry to enter the data. He would read off

the numbers, and I punched them in. This was
before the days of the internet, so when we had
checked and double-checked the numbers, we

called into the church headquarters to report the
data so the totals could be recorded there.
One day, the bishop came into where Henry

and I were working. "I just got the phone bill," he
said. "Do you know what's on it?"
"What?" Henry asked.

"There are a lot of calls to a dirty joke line,"
the bishop replied. "The calls are all made during

the youth night meetings. Apparently, the youth

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