Q: How many bureaucrats does it take to change a lightbulb? 
      A: Someone asked that question three months ago.  As soon as we finish 
processing the paperwork, we'll let you know. 
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             WITH LOVE ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE 
    
   This paper has been sent to you for good luck.  The original is under 
   the linoleum of a mobile home in Alabama.  It has been around the world 
   nine times.  [Dear Reader: please help keep this count current.  If 
   this letter falls into your hands after just completing one more 
   circuit of the world, please add one to the count.] The luck has now 
   been sent to you.  You will receive good luck within four days of 
   receiving this letter, provided you send it on!  Since the copy must 
   tour the world, you must make twenty copies and send them to others. 
   This is no joke.  Send no money.  Send copies to people who need good 
   luck within 96 hours. 
    
   After he passed on this letter, a Montana Spinach Control Officer 
   received $0.25 too much in change at a Circle K.  John Elliot found a 
   box of brake shoes that had fallen off a truck, but, because he broke 
   the chain, was accused of stealing it by the police.  When they 
   searched his home, they found bizarre sexual devices which they showed 
   to his neighbors.  In a suburb of Paris, Don Loray split his trousers, 
   51 days after failing to circulate the letter.  However, before this 
   happened, he found 70 centimes in the seat cushions of his Renault 
   2-CV.  (was this the consolation prize?) 
    
   Do note the following:  Hebert Pudstrom received the chain in 1953.  He 
   asked his secretary to make twenty copies and send them out.  A few 
   days later he encountered nothing but green lights on his way to work. 
   General George Patton, who sent the letter on, saw what he thought was 
   a quarter in the street.  Actually, it was a 1909 S VDB walking liberty 
   half dime worth $19,000!  His aide, Colonel Roger Bumswiver, who did 
   not pass on the letter, tried to pick up a similar object which turned 
   out to be a gob of spit from an unshaven merchant seaman.  Heywood 
   Daddit, an unemployed chicken choker, received the letter and forgot 
   that it had to leave his hands within 96 hours.  His wife then went 
   bowling and never returned.  Later, after finding the letter again, he 
   mailed twenty copies.  A few days later he got a better wife and won a 
   state Chess Championship, despite the fact that he had never played 
   chess before!  Alan Fairchild received the letter and, not believing, 
   threw the letter away.  Nine days later he spilled tea on his cravat. 
    
   In 1987 the letter received by a young woman in Texas was faded and 
   barely readable, so she did not realize that this paragraph applied to 
   her.  She promised herself she would retype the letter and send it on, 
   but she put it aside to do later.  She was plagued with problems 
   including steatopygia and waterbrash.  The letter did not leave her 
   hands in 96 hours.  She finally typed the letter and got a Hottentot 
   apron! 

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