The S.S. Ark

Noah and his family had just disembarked from the S.S. Ark. Those of you who have done some cruising know how long it takes before your group is called to leave the ship. For some reason, all the animals had higher priority. Wouldn't you know, someone got the bright idea of organizing a parade for disembarkation? All the animals lined up two by two to go down the ramp. Have you ever tried to walk down a ramp, following thousands of animals? Those elephants sure can leave some huge piles.

They finally got off that smelly ship. If you think wet dog smells bad, you should smell a whole menagerie after 40 days of rain. Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives left to go home as soon as they had landed. Mrs. Noah (Noah never did put her name down in the ship's registry.} stared at the piles of dirty laundry to wash. From the top of Mt. Ararat she had to walk two miles down to the nearest stream. She looked around for Noah. He was down there in the valley building an altar to sacrifice some animal. She hoped it would be one of the smelly goats. She had about all of them she could take.

She finally got the laundry done, and was cooking some supper. "Where the heck is Noah," she muttered to herself. The supper was just about burned, when he finally showed up in the camp. He must have had a ball down there at the sacrifice. You see old Noah liked a nip of the vino every now and then. It seems he found an old bottle before he left the ship and was doing a little celebrating. "Noah, you old reprobate," she said, "don't you ever suggest going on another cruise." "Moreover," she yelled, "If you think you're sleeping with me tonight, you have another think coming. You can just go sleep with those stupid sheep you love so much."

Just about sunset, a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky. "Oh sure," she complained, "now that the vacation is over, the sun comes out. Next year we'll leave the kids and all these stupid animals at home." Vegas might be nice," she whispered to herself as she dropped off to sleep.