Pope and Coffee

The marketing director of Nescafe manages to arrange a meeting with the
Pope at the Vatican.






After receiving the papal blessing, the Nescafe official whispers, 'Your

Eminence, I have some business to discuss. We at Nescafe have an offer
for you. Nescafe is prepared to donate $100 million to the church . if
you change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to
'Give us this day our daily coffee'."

The Pope looks outraged and thunders, "That is impossible. The Prayer is

the word of the Lord, It must not be changed." Well," says the Nescafe
man somewhat chastened, "We anticipated your reluctance. For this
reason, and the importance of the Lord's prayer to all catholics, we
will increase our offer to $300 million. All we require is that you
change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to
'Give us this day our daily coffee'."

Again, even more sternly, the Pope replies, "That, my son, is
impossible. For the prayer is the word of the Lord and it must not be
changed."

Finally, the Nescafe director says, "Your Holiness, we at Nescafe
respect your adherence to your faith, we realise that tradition is
essential to your beliefs, we fully understand the importance of the
word of the Lord ................but we do have one final offer. Please
discuss it with your cardinals. We will donate $500 million to the great

Catholic church if you would only change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us

this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily coffee'.
Please, please consider it." And he leaves.

The next day the Pope convenes the College of  Cardinals. "There is
some Good news," he announces, "and some bad news   .....
The good news  is, he continues to a hushed assembly, ' that the Church
will get $ 500 million."

"And what is the bad news, your Holiness?" asks a Cardinal.

"Sadly" says the Pope ,
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

We would have to lose the Britannia Bread Account