A bishop who had been widely advertised for a speech at Westminster
Abbey, was greeted by a record-breaking audience. The famous Abbey was
crowded to the doors.
As the bishop stepped to the rostrum and opened the good book he said, “I
will take for my text today, ‘And when the Lord ascended Mt. Sinai, What
did he say?’” And, looking at those assembled in the balcony, he said
again, in a louder voice, “‘And when the Lord ascended Mt. Sinai, What
did he say?’” And once again, looking upward to the gallery, he shouted
(as if waiting for an answer), “‘And when the Lord ascended Mt. Sinai,
What did he say?’”
A little Australian buddy, unable to contain himself any longer, rose
from his place in the rear and, standing on his seat, raised his hand:
“I’ll bite, bishop, wot did ’e say?”
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