Toaster sent me an email the other day with a series of shots of two church signs in an escalating battle over whether dogs had souls. (Okay, not really. It was someone goofing around in Photoshop or something. But it was darn funny.) I loved it so much that I sent the email to a bunch of my coworkers and made Monkeys turn it into a .gif so that the pictures cycled through automatically. Anyway, here is the sign battle and below that is a series of emails between me and a coworker in which her last email made me giggle almost as much as the signs did.




From: MadLadyRed
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:08 AM
To: MyCoworker
Subject: FW: Why dogs go to heaven

This really made me laugh out loud.

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From: MyCoworker
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:35 AM
To: MadLadyRed
Subject: RE: Why dogs go to heaven

Excellent, except I don’t get the rock part?!

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From: MadLadyRed
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:37 AM
To: MyCoworker
Subject: RE: Why dogs go to heaven

I think at that point it was just getting snarky and silly, not any real meaning behind rocks in particular.

I’m sure someone just took pictures of the two church signs and did the rest in photoshop as a joke. Churches can’t have really done that, right?

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From: MyCoworker
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:39 AM
To: MadLadyRed
Subject: RE: Why dogs go to heaven

Well they could if two of them have a really good sense of humor, and the catholics might, but in general the protestants are too uptight, so I doubt it.

It was really good until the rock part – that ruined it for me. I think you should ask Monkeys to fix that to something funnier, like “...there aren’t cats in heaven either” and the next one could say “family conversion special - get a dog AND a cat soul free.”

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From: MadLadyRed
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:45 AM
To: MyCoworker
Subject: RE: Why dogs go to heaven

Yours is funny, too!

I was okay with the rock part. Reminded me of the surreal stuff that just goes off to nowhere. (Like the knock knock joke “How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: A lemon.)

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From: MyCoworker
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:47 AM
To: MadLadyRed
Subject: RE: Why dogs go to heaven

Godot is still waiting to get that punch line. I would rather laugh outright! I want my signs to have cats!

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From: MadLadyRed
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:49 AM
To: MyCoworker
Subject: RE: Why dogs go to heaven

Oooooooooh, Godot. Keep waiting. But what could be more appropriate than to tie an existential knot in the church sign war over whether a being has a soul?

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From: MyCoworker
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:50 AM
To: MadLadyRed
Subject: RE: Why dogs go to heaven

A lemon