“Are we there yet?” Joseph asked. “No,” Judah answered, irritated. “AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet?” Joseph badgered smiling, then made a funny “Pop!” sound with his mouth. His brothers eyed each other. His brothers nodded to one another. His brothers kicked Joseph to the curb and rode off without him. “Eee! Eeh!” He called, as they dwindled into the distance, “Uh-oh.”
Not long afterward, a caravan of Midianites going to Egypt saw Joseph by the side of the road and picked him up. He danced for them and they clapped. Things were looking up again for Joseph until they got to Egypt, where the Midianites sold him to the circus ring master named Pottimouth.
“*!#&!@,” Pottimouth said to the Midianites. “You're welcome,” They replied in way of farewell. Joseph watched stunned, wondering if the dude had really said, “*!#&!@.”
Chapter 23
Joseph turned out to be a huge draw for the circus. Not only could he sing and dance, but he was also granted the gifts of prophecy and dream interpretation. As such, he would don an elaborate turban, hold the proffered question written on a scroll to his forehead and pronounce the desired answer. Only then would he read the scroll to divulge who in the audience the answer belonged to. They ate it up.
Now one evening Pharaoh had a bad dream which troubled him, but none of his wise men were able to tell him the meaning. Therefore he decided to go in disguise to the circus and thus inquire of Joseph during his show. Having seated himself amongst the crowd, Pharaoh waited his turn. Several scrolls were answered and read before his finally came up. Joseph had but touched the scroll when he looked out at his audience and said, “Hey, aren't you that Bunch Punch guy? That's good stuff man!” (Yup, Al was Pharaoh.) “Never mind that,” Pharaoh Al replied, “Just do the thing.” “Sure thing boss,” Joseph held the scroll to his head.
“Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to store grain for seven years, for Pharaoh's dream shows seven years of abundance to come followed by seven years of famine. In this way may Pharaoh avert disaster and have food on hand for the seven lean years.” Joseph opened his eyes. Not bad! Then Pharaoh Al said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people will submit to your orders. Only in respect to the throne will I be greater than you.” Cool! Joseph was Regent!
And so it came about, seven years of plenty came upon the land and Joseph stored up countless grain tonnage. There followed the seven years of famine in which Joseph opened the storehouses of Egypt and sold food to all the nations, making Pharaoh Al exceedingly wealthy. Not only that, but Joseph's father and brothers came to him in Egypt to live. To them he deeded the fertile area of Goshen, where they lived in splendor all their days. Oh, and they boink-boinked like rabbits, becoming a mighty nation in their own right.
All was cool, righteous and groovy.
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