Keith,
as for which came first, the ep or the joke......i am going 2 go with the
ep......as 4 watching the zone as a kid.......it scared the bejezus out of me
sometimes! and you are totally correct about the end of times ep's in the
series. one f my most memorable ep's was the one about the kid sending people
2 the 'corn field' when he got upset with them. i have tried around the
holidays 2 catch that ep again so that i can record it, but i seem 2 never 2
able 2 catch it.
Fate.
--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Forwarded Jokes
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 5:48 PM
And on another note, as a kid, shows like this often had me confused or
frightened. When I first saw the Twilight Zone ep described below, i thought it
reasonable that the Devil would make a last minute grab at a soul in route to
Heaven. So my young mind was frightened at the thought that some day *I'd* face
some tough test--what if I failed and ended up in a lake of fire and brimstone?
What if I didn't have a faithful hound dog to help me defeat the Devil's ploy?
As an adult, I think differently, of course, and ain't worried about Satan
getting one last shot on souls who've died in Grace. But man did that stuff
scare me as a kid!
Let's not even start on Revelation and some of the horrors it described for the
end times!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Johnson" <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net>
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 5:42:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Forwarded Jokes
This is a take on a classic ep of "The Twilight Zone". In it, an old hillbilly
guy goes hunting for 'coon with his hound dog, even though his wife begs him
not too. She'd seen signs and portents that something awful would happen. The
man and his dog pursue a raccoon into a river, then things go blank. Later he
tries to go home, but quickly realizes he's died, and can't be seen or heard by
his wife or anyone else. Sorrowfully, he and his hound dog walk along a dirt
road toward their reward. The man stops at one place with a slick-looking
guard before a gate, but his dog is upset and barks at the guy. The gatekeeper
says "no pets allowed in Heaven", and the old man sadly says "I don't want no
part of a place that won't accept my dog". They then keep walking, and end up
at a simple gate with a hillbilly chewing on a piece of straw, who says "Howdy!
We've been waiting for you!" He says that dogs are sho' 'nuff welcome in
Heaven, and then tells the
relieved old man that the fancy place down the street was Hell. They
gatekeeper was always lying in order to do a last minute grab on saved souls,
he explained, but the Devil couldn't fool a dog!
I wonder if this joke precedes or comes after that Twilight Zone, which is at
least forty years old?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Augustus Augustus" <jazzynupe_007@ yahoo.com>
To: "Sci Fi" <scifino...@yahoogro ups.com>
Cc: "Black SciFi" <blackscifihorrorfan tasyclub@ yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 5:30:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Forwarded Jokes
This answers all questions & explains why I forward jokes.
A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery,
when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.
He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for
years. He wondered where the road was leading them.
After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the
road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a
tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.
When he was standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that
looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like
pure gold.. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and ashe got closer, he saw
a man at a desk to one side.
When he was close enough, he called out, 'Excuse me, where are we?'
'This is Heaven, sir,' the man answered.
'Wow! Would you happen to have some water?' the man asked.
'Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up'.
The man gestured, and the gate began to open.
'Can my friend,' gesturing toward his dog, 'come in, too?' the traveler asked.
'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets.'
The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the
way he had been going with his dog.
After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt
road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed.
There was no fence.
As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and
reading a book.
'Excuse me!' he called to the man. 'Do you have any water?'
'Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there, come on in.'
'How about my friend here?' the traveler gestured to the dog.
'There should be a bowl by the pump.'
They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand
pump with a bowl beside it.
The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave
some to the dog.
When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing
by the tree.
'What do you call this place?' the traveler asked.
'This is Heaven,' he answered.
'Well, that's confusing,' the traveler said. 'The man down the road said that
was Heaven, too.'
'Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That's
hell.'
'Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that?'
'No, we're just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best
friends behind.'
Soooo...
Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us without writing a
word.
Maybe this will explain.
When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do? You
forward jokes.
When you have nothing to say, but still want to keep contact, you forward jokes.
When you have something to say, but don't know what, and don't know how, you
forward jokes.
Also to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still important,
you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you get?
A forwarded joke.
So, next time if you get a joke, don't think that you've been sent just another
forwarded joke, but that you've been thought of today and your friend on the
other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile.
You are all welcome @ my water bowl anytime!!!
A Cheerful Heart Is Good Medicine. Prov. 17:22
Fate.
