England's team captain David Beckham was told that there was a Church of England Bishop outside the locker room anxious to impart his Episcopal blessing on the 2006 World Cup English football team.
"One of those daft types?" Beckham said.
"It looks good in the papers," the team's PR man replied.
"Rolls of toilet paper maybe," Beckham answered.
"We wanted Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury here," said the team's PR man, "but since he's an ArchDruid as well as an Archbishop, he plans to be at Stonehenge worshipping the sun during the week of the summer solstice."
"I say," said the locker room janitor, "I heard ArchDruid Williams talking once on the importance of gay clergy and gay bishops in the Anglican Communion. He did the speech in the midst of an appreciative audience in the middle of a Turkish sauna I remember."
The locker room opened and in walked the Bishop of Sillyham the Right Rev. Mario Vingian.
"Hi there," the Rt. Rev. Mario Vingian waltzed into the room, "I'm here to give you my blessing."
"You're not wearing a cross like most bishops," Beckham noticed.
"Indeed not," the Bishop of Sillyham replied, "this is a kabbalistic Star of David specially blessed by the Madonna... the rock star... not the mother of that guy... what's his name again... oh... Jesus."
To be continued.
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