{"id":3412,"date":"2024-10-26T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T09:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2024-10-26T10:26:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T09:26:42","slug":"a-very-distinguished-lady-was-on-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=3412","title":{"rendered":"A very distinguished lady was on a plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very distinguished lady was on a plane arriving from Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>She found herself seated next to a nice priest whom she asked:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcuse me Father, could I ask a favor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course my child, What can I do for you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is the problem, I bought myself a new sophisticated hair remover gadget for which I paid an enormous sum of money.<\/p>\n<p>I have really gone over the declaration limits and I am worried that they will confiscate it at customs.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think you could hide it under your cassock?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement \u201cOf course I could, my child, but you must realize that I can not lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have such an honest face Father, I am sure they will not ask you any questions\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>and she gave him the \u2018hair remover\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft arrived at its destination.<\/p>\n<p>When the priest presented himself to customs he was asked,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFather, do you have anything to declare?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the top of my head to my sash, I have nothing to declare, my son\u201d,he replied.<\/p>\n<p>Finding this reply strange, the customs officer asked,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd from the sash down, what do you have?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The priest replied, \u201cI have there a marvelous little instrument designed for use by women, but which has never been used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breaking out in laughter, the customs officer said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo ahead Father. Next!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very distinguished lady was on a plane arriving from Switzerland. She found herself seated next to a nice priest whom she asked: \u201cExcuse me Father, could I ask a favor?\u201d \u201cOf course my child, What can I do for you?\u201d \u201cHere is the problem, I bought myself a new sophisticated hair remover gadget for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}