[PRCo] Re: Fwd: The Devil and the Guy From Pittsburgh

[Schneider Fred]

I should send this directly to you off list but I'll put it here for  
everyone to read.   I know you are saying.   I am the secretary of my  
high school reunion committee.   I am very careful about what I send  
out.   One person told me I should not send anything to him any more  
because I insulted his religion.    Sad.   Very sad that we cannot  
except a little levity in life.

On that list I simply do not send anything that I sense is  
politically or religiously sensitive because I want to keep the list  
together for the 55th reunion.

But I still like being able to tell an off color joke to my own  
minister and have him laugh and then have him tell me a good one in  
return.   I think the last good one we shared came off the Vicar of  
Dibley show on PBS, which comes from BBC television in England.    
When I got to the punch line Bill said, they didn't say that on  
television.   Yup.   And he commented, the British are a lot more  
reasonable than we are.


On Nov 12, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Jerry "Matt" Matsick wrote:

>
> Fred - these days one must be Politically,, Religiously and morally  
> tactful!     Not sure if some on the group don't believe in  
> HELL!      But I believe Pittsburgh will have operating street cars  
> and Hell will freeze over before the Pirates win another World  
> Series!  LOL
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> Jerry
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:19:33 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada  
> Eastern
> Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: The Devil and the Guy From Pittsburgh
>
> DamfIknow why the good reverend didn't post this to the entire
> Pittsburgh Railways list.   It is funny.
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "Jerry \"Matt\" Matsick" <jerry.matsick at comcast.net>
>
> Subject: Fwd: The Devil and the Guy From Pittsburgh
>
> : The Devil and the Guy From Pittsburgh
>
> 
>
> A guy from Pittsburgh dies and is sent to Hell. He had been
>   a  horrible man his entire life.
>
> The devil puts him to work breaking up rocks with a
> sledgehammer.
>
> To  make it worse, he cranks up the temperature and the
>   humidity.
>   After a couple of days, the devil checks in on his victim
>   to see if he is suffering adequately. The devil is baffled as the
> guy from Pittsburgh
>   is happily swinging his hammer and whistling a happy tune.
>
>
> The devil walks up to him and says, "I
>   don't understand his. I've turned
>   the heat way up, it's humid, and you’re crushing rocks;
>   why are you so happy?"
>
>
> The guy from Pittsburgh , with a big smile,
> looks at the devil and replies,
>   "This is great! It reminds me of August in Pittsburgh . Hot,
>   humid, a good  place to work. It reminds me of home. This is
> fantastic!"
>
> The devil, extremely perplexed, walks away to
>   ponder the  remarks of the guy from Pittsburgh . Then he decides to
> drop the
> temperature, send down a driving rain and torrential wind.
> Soon, Hell is a wet,  muddy mess. Walking in mud up to his knees with
> dust
> blowing  into his eyes, the guy from Pittsburgh is happily slogging
> through  the mud pushing a wheelbarrow full of crushed rocks.
>
> Again, the devil asks how he can be happy in
> such conditions.
>
>
> The guy from Pittsburgh replies, "This is great! Just
> like April in Pittsburgh .
> It reminds me of working out in the yard with spring
> planting!"
>
> The devil is now completely baffled but more
>   determined to make  the guy from Pittsburgh suffer. He makes the
> temperature
>   plummet.
>
>   Suddenly
> Hell is  blanketed in snow and ice.
>
>   Confident that this will surely make the guy from Pittsburgh
>   unhappy,
>   the devil checks in on him.
>
>
>   He is again shocked at what he sees. The guy from
>   Pittsburgh is dancing,  singing, and twirling his sledgehammer as
> he cavorts in glee.
>
>
> "How can you be so happy? Don't you know its 40
>   below zero!?"   screams the devil.
>
>
>   Jumping up and down, the guy from Pittsburgh throws a
>   snowball  at the devil and yells,
>
>
> "Hell's frozen over! This means the Pirates won the World
> Series."
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