A friend gave me this.....
AHH the Irish
An Englishman decided to write a book about famous churches
around the world. So he bought a train ticket and took a
trip to Plymouth, thinking that he would start by working
his way across England from South to North. On his first day
he was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed a
golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read
"£10,000 per call". The Englishman, being intrigued, asked a
priest who was strolling by what the telephone was used for.
The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and
that for £10,000 you could talk to God. The Englishman
thanked the priest and went along his way.
His next stop was in Worcester. There, at a very large
cathedral, he saw the same golden telephone with the same
sign under it. He wondered if this was the same kind of
telephone he saw in Plymouth and he asked a nearby nun what
its purpose was. She told him that it was a direct line to
heaven and that for £10,000 he could talk to God. "O.K.,
thank you," said the Englishman.
He then traveled to Salisbury, Leeds, Carlisle and
Newcastle. In every church, he saw the same golden telephone
with the same "£10,000 per call" sign under it. The
Englishman, upon leaving Newcastle, decided to travel to
Ireland to see if the Irish had the same telephone. He
arrived in Dublin, and again, in the first church he entered
, there was the same golden telephone, but this time the
sign under it read "40p per call."
The Englishman was surprised, so he asked the priest about
the sign. "Father, I've traveled all over England and I've
seen this same golden telephone in many churches. I'm told
that it is a direct line to Heaven, but in England the price
was £10,000 per call. Why is it so cheap here?" The priest
smiled and answered, "You're in Ireland now, son - it's a
local call".