an engineer was bored sitting around in heaven because there was nothing to do. then one day he heard there were a lot of problems in hell, so he decided to go down there to see if he could help.

the place was a mess. the electricity didn't work half of the time, and the air conditioning had completely broken down. so first he got the electricity on line again, and then he fixed the air conditioning system. everything was going well until god heard about what he was doing.

so god called down to the devil and said, "send my engineer back up here!"

the devil said, "why? he's doing a great job. he's got the air conditioning working and it's a lot more comfortable down here now."

and god said, "it's not supposed to be comfortable down there! that's the whole point!"

the devil said, "look, i'm very happy with him, and i'm going to keep him. besides, i've already got him, so there's nothing you can do about it."

god said, "oh, really? we'll see about that. i'm going to have a lawyer look into this."

but the devil just laughed. "is that right?" he said. "where are you going to find a lawyer?"