A little religious enthusiasm from my friend George

A crusty old man walks into the local Catholic church and says to the secretary, “I would like to join this damn church.”


The astonished woman replies, “I beg your pardon, Sir. I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?”


“Listen up, damn it. I said I want to join this damn church!”


“I’m very sorry sir, but that kind of language is not tolerated in this church.”


The secretary leaves her desk and goes into the priest’s study to inform him of her situation. The priest agrees that the secretary does not have to listen to that foul language.


They both return to her office and the priest asks the old geezer, “Sir, what seems to be the problem here?”


“There is no damn problem,” the man says. “I just won 20 million dollars in the damn lottery and I want to join this damn church to get rid of some of this damn money.”


“I see,” said the priest. “And is this bitch giving you a hard time?

About the Author

In 2003, the Chartered Institute of Marketing named Drayton one of 50 living individuals who have shaped today’s marketing.

He has worked in 55 countries with many of the world’s greatest brands. These include American Express, Audi, Bentley, British Airways, Cisco, Columbia Business School, Deutsche Post, Ford, IBM, McKinsey, Mercedes, Microsoft, Nestle, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Unilever, Visa and Volkswagen.

Drayton has helped sell everything from Airbus planes to Peppa Pig. His book, Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing, out in 17 languages, has been the UK’s best seller on the subject every year since 1982. He has also run his own businesses in the U.K., Portugal and Malaysia.

He was a main board member of the Ogilvy Group, a founding member of the Superbrands Organisation, one of the first eight Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Direct Marketing and one of the first three people named to the Hall of Fame of the Direct Marketing Association of India. He has also been given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Caples Organisation in New York and Early To Rise in Florida.

5 Comments

  1. Drayton – absolutely brilliant! And like all good jokes it has the ring of truth.

  2. Rupert

    While you’re on the subject of the Catholic
    Church, maybe you have the heard the one about a tragic accident involving a
    school mini-bus from St Agnes Catholic school.

     

    The girls arrive at the gates of heaven and
    are met by St Peter. He takes the first girl gently by the shoulder and asks
    her if she has committed any mortal sins since her last confession. 

     

    “Well father, I did just lightly touch a
    boy’s penis, but he had his trousers on.”

    “There, there my girl, dip your fingers
    into the holy water and pass through the gate.”

     

    When asked the same question the second
    girl replies,

     

    “Well yes father, I too gently touched the
    same boy, only he had taken his zipper down you see.”

    “There, there my girl, dip your fingers
    into the holy water and pass through the gate.”

     

    St Peter was just about to ask the same
    question of the third girl when a big strapping blonde pushed to the front of
    the queue.

     

    “Just a minute young lady, what’s the
    rush?”

    “I want to gargle in that water before she
    has to stick her ass in it!”
     

  3. Matthew

    Two beggars are sitting side by side on a
    street in Dublin. One has a cross in front of him, the other one the Star of
    David.

    Many people go by and look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of
    the beggar sitting behind the cross. A priest comes by, stops and watches
    throngs of people giving money to the beggar behind the cross, but none to the
    beggar behind the Star of David.

    Finally the priest goes over to the beggar behind the Star of David and says:
    “My poor fellow, don't you understand? This is a Catholic country. People
    aren't going to give you money if you sit there with a Star of David in front
    of you, especially when you're sitting beside a beggar who has a cross. In
    fact, they would probably give to him just out of spite.”

    The beggar behind the Star of David turns to the beggar with the cross and
    says: “Moishe, look who's here to teach the Levine Brothers about
    marketing!”

  4. Drayton

    Bloody excellent

  5. rich

    Money changes communication acceptance levels.

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