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THE STUDENT AND THE TEACHER

AS the new semester began, and students filled into the lecture hall, a very haughty and arrogant professor strolled up to the lectern and delivered a bold challenge: "If God exists," he blared, "Then may this supposed 'God' strike me down within five minutes!"

The professor smirked and chuckled arrogantly as the minutes ticked away. Then, just as time was about to expire, a student sprang from his seat and ran up to the professor, giving him and mighty shove and sending him crashing to the ground.

"You stupid fool!" cried the professor. "Why did you do that!"

"God is busy protecting our troops overseas," calmly explained the student, "So He Sent ME."

You could have heard a pin drop.

The professor sobbed bitterly as he ran from the lecture hall in great shame. A thunderous chorus of applause greeted the student, who took the place of his professor on stage and gave a moving lecture about his faith in God to the rapt audience.

The professor? The professor was Death, the personification of mortality whose mere presence causes fear and anguish in all mankind.

And the student? The student, dear reader... was West German pop star and music legend Klaus Nomi.