Happy Hour For The Bishop

We all know how the media can distort a story. Once when the head of the Swedish Lutheran Church came to America for a conference, he was warned to watch what he said to reporters, because they were notorious for their ability to twist statements around to give them different meanings.

Sure enough, as he got off the plane a group of news reporters met him at the dock and one of them asked, “Do you intend to visit any beer joints in New York?” The bishop smiled innocently and asked, “Are there any beer joints in New York?” The next morning when he opened his paper he realized what the warnings meant, because the story about his arrival said, “When the bishop stepped off the plane his first words on American soil were, ‘Are there any beer joints in New York?’ ”