DeTomaso Mailing List: December 98, Message #246

> One day in the Garden of Eden, Eve calls out to God, "Lord, I have a
> problem!"
>
>  "What's the problem, Eve?"
>
>  "Lord, I know you've created me and have provided this beautiful garden and
> all of these wonderful animals, and that hilarious comedy snake, but I'm
> just
> not happy."
>
>  "Why is that, Eve?", comes the reply from above.
>
> "Lord, I am lonesome."
>
> "Well, Eve, in that case I have a solution. I shall create a man for you."
>
> "What's a 'man,' Lord?"
>
> "This man will be a flawed creature, with aggressive tendencies, an
> enormous ego and an inability to empathize or listen to you properly.
> All in all he'll give you a hard time. But he'll be bigger and faster and
> more
> muscular than you, he'll be really good at fighting and kicking a ball about
> and hunting fleet-footed ruminants, and not altogether bad
> in the sack."
>
> "Sounds great," says Eve, with an ironically raised eyebrow.
>
> "Yeah, well. He's better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick. But
> you can have him on one condition."
>
> "What's that, Lord?"
>
> "You'll have to let him believe that I made him first."