"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is not art"
Taxing Times
December 2007
Jesus returned to earth 2000 years after his first visit and this time turned up in central Scotland.
He was soon summoned to his local Job Centre and the assistant there asked what previous work experience he had.
‘Well,’ he said ‘I have done a little bit of fishing and a bit of Carpentry’.
Consulting his extensive job files the assistant tells Jesus that he has found a couple of openings for him. The first as a joiner in Edinburgh with start up pay of £200 per week and the second as a fisherman in Galilee starting on £500 per week with a bonus related to the catch.
Jesus immediately said he would take the opening in Edinburgh but the assistant from the Job Centre wasn’t so sure, ‘You do realize the pay for the fisherman’s job is more than twice the joiner’s rate don’t you and you’ll be on a bonus too’
‘I know’ says Jesus ‘but I’ve worked in Galilee before and you get hammered with tax over there’ (tacks?)