Thursday, March 24, 2005
From the Mouths of Babes
My students have been abuzz all week about the end of the world. It’s coming sooner than you might think, tomorrow in fact, Good Friday.
These are the facts as I know them:
There you have it. It’s been fun. I’ll see y’all in Hell.
My students have been abuzz all week about the end of the world. It’s coming sooner than you might think, tomorrow in fact, Good Friday.
These are the facts as I know them:
- Sometime last week a baby was born somewhere in the Dominican Republic.
- This baby was not like other babies. He was big - thirty pounds by some reports - and bearded, with a full set of snaggly teeth.
- Upon sight of him the nurse who had assisted in his (no doubt extremely painful) delivery dropped dead, as did all the other patients in the hospital.
- The doctor lived long enough to report that the unusually large, hairy, and toothsome baby possessed the power of speech, and that he had prophesized doom on the 25th.
- The doctor and the baby both died soon after this portentous news was reported.
There you have it. It’s been fun. I’ll see y’all in Hell.
