Welcome, Dear Readers, to this Sunday’s edition of The Bible According to Gregory.
Today in Sunday School Gregory learned about Noah’s Ark and couldn’t help imagining what Noah and everyone was up to once they were on dry land again, and the only people left on earth.
Noah Sleeps It Off
In last week’s lesson, God turned on the heavenly hose full blast until everything that breathed couldn’t breath anymore, and all the bad people on earth became dead, except for God’s favorite man, Noah, who built an ark etc. etc. (See Old MacDonald’s Farm for more information).
When God finally pulled the plug on the deluge, Noah was 601 years old even though Noah didn’t look a day over 500 and could still touch his toes!
While Noah’s wife and Noah’s three sons Ham, Shem and Japheth and their kids enjoyed sifting through the flood debris for cool stuff, Noah spent most of the time moping in his tent and picking the mud off his robe.
Occasionally Noah would schlep through the flood debris to the barbecue/altar to fix the Lord and (and himself) a Shem burger invented by his son Shem (his son Ham was too lazy to invent anything).
But mostly Noah sat around just whining and complaining to his wife, Betty, about how much he missed mankind.
Betty: Noah, you really need to stop laying around all day kvetching.
Noah: There’s nothing else to do. I hate this place, it’s so boring!
Betty: How can you say that when there’s so much debris out there just waiting to be sifted through. Look what I found just today?
Noah: What is it?
Betty: An apple with one bite out of it!
Noah: Weird.
Betty: Listen, Noah why don’t you start on a project. Do something constructive. You’re a farmer. Maybe you could plant something.
Noah: Hey that’s a swell idea, Betty. I’ll plant a vineyard!
Betty: A vineyard? But we don’t drink. I don’t think the Lord would approve of that, Noah.
Noah: Oh no! Not for wine . . .
Betty: For what then?
Noah: Oh you know, for raisin bran, raisin cookies, Waldorf salads . . .
Betty: I don’t like raisins in salad.
Noah: Okay, whatever, you can pick the raisins out. The point is, Betty, what this place could use is a vineyard! Besides wine seeds are the only seeds I brought with.
Betty: You mean grape seeds?
Noah: Yeah, what’d I say?
Betty: You said wine seeds.
Noah: Whoops. Slip of the tongue.
Betty: Are you sure?
Noah: Betty, I’m 601 years old for god sakes, cut me some slack!
Three years later:
Betty: Noah? What are you drinking?
Noah: Just some . . .hic . . . grape juice.
Three Years and two hours later:
Shem: Hey has anybody seen, Dad?
Ham: He got wasted and passed out in his tent buck naked!
Shem: Oh my Lord!
Japheth; Oh my God!
Ham: Oh you guys, stop being such prigs!
Japheth : We care about, Dad, okay? We’re not pigs, Okay?
Shem: Yeah!
Ham: I didn’t say you were pigs, I said you were prigs.
Shem: Same thing.
Ham: Listen Shem, I think I know what a pig is, I was named after one. Hello?!
Jepeath: Come on Shem. Let’s go get a blanket to put over Dad’s buck nakedness.
Shem: What’s a blanket?
Japheth: It’s a robe without sleeves. You really need to keep up with technology better, Shem.
Three Years and Six Hours Later:
Japheth: Dad’s awake and he wants to see you, Ham.
Ham: Yeah Dad?
Noah: I’m putting a curse on your son, Canaan!
Ham: Why?
Noah: He will be a slave to his brothers. Give praise to the Lord the God of Shem! May God cause Japheth to increase!!
Ham: Well Japheth has been putting on weight but I just thought it was the Shem burgers.
Noah: CANAAN WILL BE THE SLAVE OF SHEM!
Ham: Okay Dad! I’m standing right here. There’s no need to shout. Please use your indoor voice. How about a nice cup of black coffee and a cold shower?
Noah: AND HIS DESCENDANTS LIVE WITH THE PEOPLE OF SHEM! DO YOU HEAR KNOCKING? WHO SET MY CHEESE AFIRE?
Ham: Okay Dad, now I know you’re still drunk. Afire is not even a word, is it?
Noah: A CURSE ON CANAAN!
Ham: But Dad, my son Canaan is just a little innocent boy who loves his grandpa.
Noah: OKAY! MAKE THAT A CURSE ON CANADA!
Ham: Consider it cursed! Go back to sleep, Dad.
Noah: Okay, but wake me up when it’s time for soccer practice.
And there you have it, Dear Readers. How Gregory imagines it was like after for Noah after the flood. Check back next week at this same time to find out what happens next.
Until next time . . . I love you
Linda Vernon Humor 
Woah woah woah wait a second, who said Noah could have the forbidden apple?? no canadian cheese for him! :O
Really! I think we should ban Noah from Canadian bacon and from joining the Royal Canadian Air Force too!! (He’s probably too old anyway)
Eh, only 500+ he’ll make it in a plane somehow! that’s if he doesn’t crash into everything first :O
Ha! Oh I like the idea of Noah building a plane to put all the animals in instead of an Ark. He could be crazy old man pilot Noah.
Oh the way the Bible would have to be rewritten lol!
We’d probably have to go to church at the airport.
Church prayer on the go! why not 😉
I hope they have this scene in the new “Noah” movie with Russell Crowe. 😀
I was just thinking the same thing! Judging by Linda’s version, Crowe may have been mis-cast. I think they should’ve got Frank Langella.
Oh me too Michael. I’m definitely going to go see that movie. It will really be fun to watch way they went with the story.
I love love reading these. I actually read every single one lol. Never stop!
Really Rene? I am so happy to hear that!! Thank you so much for your encouragement. And I will keep writing them because they are so much fun to write and luckily I have a lot of material to work with!
Was that your apple Linda?? *shaking my head* Hey did Shem put that bbq sauce on the burgers?
Ahahaha! I thought of you when I wrote that line Bucky! 😀
lol! I just couldn’t resist!
LOL 😀
Ham was hamming it up! He missed out on the barbeque and didn’t even get a hamburger, er shemburger. Just as well, there was no ketchup back then.
I think Moses might have put kvetch up on his Shem burgers.
Oyyy!
Is this dialog lifted directly from the script of the upcoming Noah movie starring Russel Crow? God, I hope so. If that’s the case, I might actually want to see it.
Ah thanks Mark. I think I like Noah drunk better than I like him sober! But I just don’t see Russel Crow as Noah. I think Christopher Lloyd might be a better choice for my version. Plus he’d be a more convincing 601 year old.
Sad that this entire episode is misremembered, but glad I can still get a good hamburger.
Can I have apple slices on that?
Apple slices eh? Okaaaay . . . .
I can’t wait for the movie that’s coming up… to see your story in film.. Diane
Oh I can’t wait for the movie. That’s a movie I’m going to on the first night! I hope it’s good!!
Even the area where I was from in southern Alabama was more progressive than to resort to this particular tale as a justification for racism. Thanks for sharing this though. I know it’s not verbatim how it all went down, but it seems at least 98% straight from the Bible with just minimal paraphrasing mixed in to keep it moving. I had always wondered about this story. Now I don’t have to dust the old thing off and crack it open!
As a justification for racism? I guess I never thought of it like that before . . .
I thought it was interesting that the bible doesn’t mention what in the world they did when they got off the ark and there was nothing, no civilization, no people, just them and a bunch of animals. It must have been pretty depressing and boring. So it was fun imagining what might have happened. I’m looking forward to the movie to see how Hollywood spins it.
Yeah! Some people say that Ham’s skin was turned black in punishment for his sin. We have black people because of this story (or so some say). They use it as a way of basing the origin of Africans as the product of some ancient sin.
Oh Brantley that’s HORRIBLE! I had no idea there were people in this world who could be so stupid!!