<div>This is GREAT! Thanks for the laugh Art.</div> <div> </div> <div>Dianne<BR><BR><B><I>Art Kelly <akelly@americantarget.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Please read both letters.<BR><BR>Art<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: David Franke [mailto:dfranke00@comcast.net]<BR>Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:10 AM<BR>To: dfranke00@comcast.net<BR>Subject: have you heard the one about the lawyer and the bureaucrat...<BR><BR><BR>(Forwarded)<BR>><BR>>Part of rebuilding New Orleans causes residents to often be<BR>>challenged with the task of tracing home titles back potentially<BR>>hundreds of years.<BR>><BR>>With a community rich with history stretching back over two<BR>>centuries, houses have been passed along through generations of family,<BR>>sometimes making it quite difficult to establish ownership.<BR>><BR>>>A New
Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client.<BR>>He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory<BR>>title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral.<BR>>The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer<BR>>three months to track down.<BR>><BR>>After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following<BR>>reply.<BR>><BR>><BR>>(Actual letter):<BR>><BR>>"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan<BR>>application,we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of<BR>>Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared<BR>>and presented the application, we must point out that you have only<BR>>cleared title to the proposed collateral l property back to 1803.<BR>>Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the<BR>>title back to its origin."<BR>><BR>>Annoyed, the lawyer responded as
follows<BR>><BR>><BR>>(actual letter):<BR>><BR>>"Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received.<BR>>I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194<BR>>years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any<BR>>educated person in this country, particularly those working in the<BR>>property area,would not know that Louisiana was purchased, by the U.S.,<BR>>from France in1803, the year of origin identified in our application.<BR>>For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the<BR>>land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had<BR>>acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain.<BR>>The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in<BR>>the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been<BR>>granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish<BR>>monarch, Isabella.<BR>>The good queen,
Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful<BR>>about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing<BR>>of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus' expedition.<BR>><BR>>Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus<BR>>Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created<BR>>this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also<BR>>made that part of the world called Louisiana. God, therefore, would be<BR>>the owner of origin, and His origins date back, to before the beginning<BR>>of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA. I hope you find God's<BR>>original claim to be satisfactory.<BR>>Now, may we have our damn loan?"<BR>><BR>><BR>>The loan was approved.<BR>><BR><BR>_<BR><BR>-- <BR>This message has been scanned for viruses and<BR>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<BR>believed to be
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