The top marketing director of Nescafe manages to arrange a meeting with the Pope at the Vatican Nescafe official Your Eminence I have some business to discuss We at Nescafe have an offer for you Nescafe is prepared to donate 100 million to the church if you change the Lord s Prayer from Give us this day our daily bread to Give us this day our daily coffee The Pope looks outraged and thunders That is impossible The Prayer is the word of the Lord It must not be changed Well says the Nescafe man somewhat chastened We anticipated your reluctance For this reason and the importance of the Lord s prayer to all Catholics we will increase our offer to 300 million All we require is that you change the Lord s Prayer from Give us this day our daily bread to Give us this day our daily coffee Again even more sternly the Pope replies That my son is impossible For the prayer is the word of the Lord and it must not be changed Finally the Nescafe director says Your Holiness we at Nescafe respect your adherence to your faith we realise that tradition is essential to your beliefs we fully understand the importance of the word of the Lord but we do have one final offer Please discuss it with your cardinals We will donate 500 million The next day the Pope convenes the College of Cardinals There is some Good news he announces and some bad news The good news is he continues to a hushed assembly that the Church will get 500 million And what is the bad news your Holiness? asks a Cardinal Sadly says the Pope We would have to lose the Britannia Account

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