Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Give Algore his due credit Date:   12/15/2021 9:23:10 AM

Reminds me of a good engineer joke.  A priest, a politician and an engineer were condemned to death by guillotine.  As they approached the device the priest offered to go first and said the following prayer, "Oh Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner!"  They placed him in the dock looking up at the blade, pulled the lever and the blade came hurtling down and miraculously stopped just short of his neck.  Everyone was so amazed that they decided to let the priest live.  

Then the politician was called forward.  He was thinking to himself that he didn't even believe in God and had never prayed in his life but if it worked for some stinking priest it ought to work for him so he called out loudly, "Oh Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner!"  Placed in the dock looking upward at the blade as it came sliding down and once again it stopped short and the politician was spared.

Next came the engineer and he too decided to follow suit and yelled out, "Oh Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner!"  In the dock he goes and as with the others it stopped just short of his neck.  Looking up at the guillotine he said, "Hey, I can fix that."