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Gotta remember the punch line!  
Date: Sent Monday, February 26, 2001
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Pastor Roger Matthews tells the following story:
We were traveling one summer in the Pocono Mountains and, like a good Presbyterian family, attended church while we were on vacation. One lazy Sunday
we found our way to a little Methodist Church. It was a hot day and the folks were nearly out in the pews. The preacher was preaching on and on
until, all of a sudden, he said, "The best years of my life have been spent in the arms of another man's wife."
The congregation let out a gasp, came to immediate attention, and the dozing deacon in the back row dropped his hymn book. Then the preacher said,
"It was my mother."
The congregation tittered a little and managed to follow along as the sermon concluded. I filed this trick away in my memory, a great way to get the
congregation's attention back when it has been lost. Sure enough, the next summer, on a lazy Sunday, I was preaching and the flies were buzzing around
and the ushers were sinking lower and lower in their seats in the back row until I could hardly see them. Then I remembered our experience in the
Pocono Mountains, and I said in a booming voice, "The best years of my life have been spent in the arms of another man's wife."
Sure enough, I had their attention. One of the ushers in the back row sat up so fast he hit his head on the back of the pew in front of him. I had
them. But you know something, I forgot what came next. All I could think to say was, "And for the life of me, I can't remember her name!"
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