Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for September 24, 2011

A whole new “person”?

Divine interventions don’t get rid of debts.

I owe!, I owe!, all the way to the bank I go.

Maybe you are wiped clean on your end, Poncho, but my end still needs the ten bucks you owe me.

Delmar: “Well that’s it, boys. I’ve been redeemed. The preacher’s done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It’s the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting’s my reward.”Everett: “Delmar, what are you talking about? We’ve got bigger fish to fry.” Delmar: “The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.”Everett:: “I thought you said you was innocent of those charges?” Delmar: “Well I was lyin’. And the preacher says that that sin’s been warshed away too. Neither God nor man’s got nothin’ on me now.”Pete: “The Preacher said it absolved us.” Everett: “For him, not for the law. I’m surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar.” Delmar: “But they was witnesses that seen us redeemed!”Everett: “That’s not the issue, Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi’s a little more hard-nosed.”

so this is the same as declaring bankruptcy?