sisabet

I generally get a chance to check my email around 10 or 11ish in the morning. Today I discovered that

sockkpuppett had sent me a link. A harmless looking, innocent-seeming link.

I followed that innocent link and ended up crying! Sobbing! With laughter. At first my shoulders were just shaking silently, as they are wont to do - but I still maintained. As I read further, the soft snorting turned into loud gasps for air and I completely lost it.

Two cubicle mates zipped right over to see what was so funny. I tried to explain it to them - a process that actually required me to rap; thereby making this entire enterprise even funnier, at least to me.

At one point I lost the ability to speak at all and just pointed at my screen as I sat on my knees, doubled up on the floor.

Alas, my co-workers didn't get it. They seemed somewhat bemused, but I think it is more at the fact that I had tears streaming down my face and was hiccupping (and it wasn't because I had just been fired) than thinking the content of the page was funny.

Well, they are wrong. This - this is funny. This is PURE COMEDY GOLD and I am just fortunate to have a FList I can share it with. Thank god.

To get the full extent of the joke, you need to be familiar with Kanye West's song "Jesus Walks" - except, actually you don't. I should do a phone post before my paid account expires and rap this, don't ya think?? HEEE

Anyways, the lyric is "The way school need teachers/ the way Kathie Lee needed Regis/ That's the way I need Jesus" and what has been done is this has been adapted to other religions.

Just...

Okay, for Islam:

The way Madonna need the Kabbalah / The way Skee-Lo needed more royalties from "I wish I was a li'l bit talla" / That the way I need Allah.

Atheism:

The way the Red Sox need the curse of Babe Ruth / The way Abraham Lincoln needed Booth / That's how much I need a deity of any sort / That is to say, not very much at all.

My personal favorite - Zoroastrianism:

The way the troops need to come home from Basra / The way my friend Terry's dad needs his '96 Mazda / So, too, do I need a Mazda, except I am of course referring to Ahura Mazda, the single supreme god of Zoroastrianism.

I just -- by the time I got to the Judaism, I hit the floor in hysterics. Y'all get it, right?? I mean, this is funny - right??

::reads it again::

It just doesn't stop being funny.

::bookmarks::