Date: 27 Apr 1993 13:40:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Frederick P. Arnold, Jr. Dept of Chem, X8720"
(farnold@fricka.duch.udel.edu)
Subject: Story for today.

This is from D. Ridge, concerning a friend of his who was a Mormon
Missionary to Switzerland, in a german speaking region.

It appears that he was having some trouble with the language, but had
acquired a sufficiently good grasp that he felt comfortable presenting a
sermon on the Book of Revalations, and the events leading up to the end.

So, he's rolling along, and he's evoking the picture of the rapture, and
the rule of the beast on the earth, and the fight between the Archangels
and the forces of Hell, and the tension is building and building, until he
reaches the climatic moment, and intones in a voice of thunder, "Und Dann
Kommt die Ente!" (and then comes the end!)

Suddenly, the place erupts in laughter, which he can't understand. It seems
that what he meant to say was, "Und Dann Kommt die Ende", which is "and
then comes the end", but by making that mistake of one consonant on the
last word, had managed to tell his rapt parishoners, that when everything
was done, the climax of Armageddon would be the coming of 'die Ente', or
The Duck.

And so, in the last days, after the fall of the stars from the sky, and the
battle between the Archangels and the Forces of Hell, there shall Come the
Duck! Quack!
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