Smart Pope Joke

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

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 Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to
'Give us this day our daily coffee'."

The Pope is angry and shouts, "That is impossible. The Prayer is
the word of the Lord, It must not be changed." Well," says the Nescafe
man
somewhat taken aback, "We anticipated this. 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.
Finally, the Nescafe director says, "but we do have one final offer. Please discuss it with
your cardinals. We will donate $500 million to the great church

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 Account