Here's a loooong one:
There was a priest who needed someone to ring the bell in the bell tower, but no one in the town was willing to apply for the job, so he decided to advertise outsied of the town. After a while, one applicant showed up - a small man with no arms.
"Well," stated the priest, "I don't see how you could possibly ring the bell. I' mean, you have no arms."
"Just give me a chance to demonstrate." Said the little man. So they went up into the tower, where the small man proceeded to run towards the bell and then slam his face into the side of it. It rang loud and clear.
The priest didn't see that he had any choice, as this was the only applicant and he rang the bell so well, so he hired the little man. Every day on the hour, the man would faithfully ring the bell by running at it and slamming his face into the side of it.
After a few months of doing this, however, the little man's face was getting rather beat up, and his vision was failing. One fatefull day the man ran at the bell, missed, and fell down to the ground to his death. A crowd gathered around the man and the priest pushed his way through explaiming "Let me through! Let me through! I'm a priest!"
"Did you know him?" someone asked the priest.
The priest replied, "No, but his face sure rings a bell."
But wait...there's more...
A few weeks later, the little man's identical twin brother shows up at the priest's door. "Out of respect to my dearly departed brother, I would like to take over his bell ringing duties."
The priest felt he couldn't refuse, so he hired the man. He of course rang the bell the same way as his brother, by running towards the bell and slamming his face into the side of it.
Once again, after a few months of bell ringing, the man's face got rather beat up, and his vision was failing. One fatefull day the man ran at the bell, missed, and fell down to the ground to his death. A crowd gathered around the man and the priest pushed his way through explaiming "Let me through! Let me through! I'm a priest!"
"Did you know him?" someone asked the priest.
The priest replied, "No, but he sure is a dead ringer for his brother."
