"I thought maybe he was taking notes. So I asked: 'Are you taking notes?' I could hear his heavy breathing before he woke up. He stayed awake for just a few more minutes before slipping off again into slumber."
-A despondent man in Sweden phoned a suicide hotline hoping for guidance only to be answered by an exhausted cleric who fell asleep during the call. The suicidal Swede was so irate that he decided against taking his own life so that he could complain about the somnolent pastor.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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The same thing happened when I called Balk last week. "Always around" my ass.
Nice job, priest.
Goodnight Moon. Goodnight Swede, you'll be dead soon.
Little did he know... The Swede lives! Also: this reminds me of Philip Roth (the Swede)
The Lord works in mysterious wayzzzzzzzzz
It was either the Jews or Satan who made that poor old innocent priest sleepy. Cause if he not innocent he would not be able to sleep so easily.
Oh wait that made no sense. I've been hanging out at the Vatican too much.
The Vatican spent the last forty years carefully studying the Beatles (approved!) and I hear some other nitpicky issue has come down the pike since then, so I imagine they'll get around to this problem in, oh, 2070.
40 years of nitpicking would make anyone sleepy. I'm sleepy just thinking about it.
nocturnal submission
True story: I was applying for a teaching gig at [Catholic institution of higher learning] and during the interview, one of the two priests nodded off. I got the gig; the Swede lives on. Moral: Sleepy priests aren't a bug, they're a feature.
This is the best thing I've heard about the Swedish State Church since they legalized gay marriage. And that was pretty good, too. So now they've learned to harness the life-saving potential of pettiness and spite! Brilliant! Although I would've thought the Finns would've beat them to this.