An Evening with Johnners by Brian Johnston

Author:Brian Johnston [Brian Johnston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781846891694
Publisher: Quiller
Published: 2012-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

Finally, someone who did tell me a good story once was the Archbishop of York. I had interviewed him when we did York Minster and I was in his palace at Bishopthorpe, when he said, ‘Let’s have a glass of sherry and I’ll tell you a story.’

Marvellous, I thought, from an Archbishop.

‘Well,’ he said, ‘you remember when Our Lord and Moses were negotiating about the Commandments? They went up on to Mount Sinai for seven days and seven nights, working out the Commandments. On the eighth morning, Moses came down the side of the mountain and he said, “Gather round, multitudes, gather round. I’ve got two bits of news about the Commandments. One good, one bad.”

‘They said, “Let’s have the good news first, Moses.”

‘“Right,” he said, “the good news is, we’ve got them down to ten,” and there was loud applause.

‘“What about the bad news?” they said.

‘“Oh,” said Moses, “the bad news is that adultery is still in!”’

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