The Pope And The Shark

On a tour of Florida, the Pope took a couple of days off to visit the coast for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the beach in the popemobile when there was a frantic commotion just off shore.

A helpless man, wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey, was struggling frantically to free himself from the jaws of a 22-foot shark. As the Pope watched, horrified, a speedboat came racing up with three men wearing Ottawa Senators jerseys aboard. One quickly fired the harpoon into the shark's side. The other two reached out and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Leaf fan from the water. Then using baseball bats, the three heroes in red, white and black beat the shark to death and hauled it into the boat, too.

Immediately, the Pope shouted and summoned them to the beach. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions," he told them, "I heard that there was some bitter hatred between Leaf and Sens fans, but now I have seen with my own eyes that this is not the truth."

As the Pope drove off, the harpooner asked his buddies, "Who was that?"

"Well," the harpooner said, "he may have access to God's wisdom, but he doesn't know much about shark fishing. How's the bait holding up?"

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