FX: Phone buttons being pushed. Dialling tone.
CALLER: Oh, hello? Samaritans? I didn't know who else to turn to. My life is in ruins. I don't see how I am going to carry on…
OPERATIVE: I'm sorry, I'm going to stop you there. You've dialled the wrong number. This is the Levites.
FX: Click. Disconnected tone.
CALLER: Hello….Hello?
END.
Clever but I'd go with the militaristic nature of the Levites and suggesting killing Romansd etc
Might work better if you set it in Biblical times and have a man approached by a suicidal person bewailing their lot.
MAN: I'm sorry, I'm going to stop you there. You've got the wrong man. I'm not a Samaritan; I'm Jewish.
Is this too obscure or just one of those ones that only I think is funny?
Too obscure for me.
I think it might be a bit obscure for most of todays folk.
My daughter asked me the other day if Jesus was born at Christmas or Easter. SO she would have no hope with this.
Oh well, I amused myself at any rate.
(In case anyone is wondering, in the parable it was the Samaritan who came to the aid of the robbed man, while the Levite passed by on the other side.)
Ah, bloody Samaritan's hogging all the limelight.
Bit too obscure I think.
The Samaritans are not called The Good Samaritans, so what if someone rang them in dire need and the volunteer who answered said something like,
"Ok, all our Good samaritans are very busy at the minute, its the recession but an indifferent samaritan should be available soon or you can go straight through to a bad samaritan."
Just thinking out loud.