Two little boys were looking for a way to cool off on a hot summer day.
Their dad wouldn’t let them play in the sprinkler because he was mowing the lawn, so the boys set out to find a way to get wet and cool without getting into trouble.
They sat on the curb brainstorming the solution, when suddenly one of them jumped up and declared, “I know! Let’s get baptized!”
Well, both boys had seen enough to know that you can get wet at a baptism, so they trotted on down to the church on the corner and told the pastor they wanted to get baptized.
The irritated pastor finally relented after about 10 minutes of begging, and he finally dragged the boys to the men’s room and dunked them both head first into the toilet, then sent them on their way.
The boys sat on the curb, slightly disappointed with the whole adventure, when one of them asked the other, “Hey, what religion are we now?”
“I don’t know,” replied the other. “If we were Baptists, he
would have filled up the big tub and dunked our whole joke like he did for Uncle Jim, and if we were Catholic, he would have poured it on our heads from a pitcher…”
They sat and thought about it for a while longer when the first one said in a small voice, “Since he stuck our head in the toilet, I think that it means that we’re ‘pisscapalian.”