[GCFL-discuss] Fw: good argument

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

The people who first introduced me to GCFL, when I was working at a
hospitality house in West Virginia, recently forwarded this message to
me. I couldn't resist passing it along.

Siarlys

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "H. Benish" <hbenish at yahoo.com>
To: Charlie Rosenberg <jsiarlys at juno.com>

Pa rt of rebuilding New Orleans caused residents often to be challenged
with the task of tracing home titles back potentially hundreds of years.
With a community rich with history stretching back over two centuries,
houses have been passed along through generations of family, sometimes
making it quite difficult to establish ownership. Here's a great letter
an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client:   

You have to love this lawyer........ 


A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the
loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of
property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated
back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. After
sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply. 



(Actual reply from FHA): 


"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we
note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we
compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the
application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the
proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be
accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."   

Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:   
(Actual response): 

"Y our letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received. I note
that you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered
by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in
this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not
know that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France in
1803 ,   the year of origin identified in our application. For the
edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to
U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right
of Conquest from Spain . The land came into the possession of Spain by
Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named
Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new
route to   India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella. The good Queen
Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the
FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she
sold her jewels to finance Columbus 's expedition.   Now the Pope, as I'm
sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and
God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it
is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called
Louisiana. God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins
date back to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and
the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory.   Now,
may we have our damn loan?" 


The   loan was   immediately approved. 
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