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Scottish painter
Aug 21, 2013 08:33:15   #
Terrymac Loc: LONDON U.K.
 
There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.


As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the local church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings.

Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine....

Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.


Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried: "Oh, God, Oh God, forgive me; what should I do?"

And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke.




"Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more

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Aug 21, 2013 08:41:04   #
cspear42 Loc: New Mexico
 
Really!

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Aug 21, 2013 08:42:50   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Terrymac wrote:
There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.
"Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more

Good one.

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Aug 21, 2013 10:27:19   #
heyrob Loc: Western Washington
 
Oh ouch! I didn't see that coming! LOL

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Aug 21, 2013 11:11:30   #
SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina
 
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