Ned and Pons meet outside a church in a small town.
Ned: Howdy, Pons. Ya come ta see the critter they got here?
Pons: Critter? I came because I heard they had a live nativity.
Ned: That's it. I ain't never seen one a them buggers.
Pons: Nativity isn't an animal, Ned.
Ned: Says here on the leaflet that it's alive.
Pons: The people are alive.
Ned: Well natch'ly people are alive, Pons. It ain't no fun'ral.
Pons: The people in the nativity are alive.
Ned: Holy hannah, Pons! Ya mean this critter swallered a passel a folks alive?!
Pons: No, Ned. Calm down. Let me explain. The Nativity is a scene of the manger where Jesus was born.
Ned: Weren't he born in Bathleeham?
Pons: Bethlehem.
Ned: Oh, I thunk it was a place. So his ma's name was Beth Leigh Hemm
Pons: Not at all, Ned. Don't you know the story of the birth of Jesus?
Ned: I just now heard about this nativity. I ain't up on the latest birthin's.
Pons: This was two thousand years ago, Ned.
Ned: Man! Glad we got Twitter now. Baby's born- BAM -we know all about it.
Pons: C'mon, Ned. You know about Christianity.
Ned: 'Course, Pons. I bin ta church and heard all about it.
Pons: Well, the nativity is the birth of Jesus.
Ned: So Christianity is all about Jesus being born.
Pons: Well, it's really more about his death.
Ned: So we all celebrate Jesus being dead?
Pons: He's not really dead, Ned.
Ned: Oh boy! I get it now. That dang nativity done swallered him alive too!
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