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After Quasimodo met his unfortunate end, Notre Dame cathedral was looking for a new bell ringer. So the priests put up signs asking for qualified applicants to please apply at the cathedral and spend a week sifting through the applicants to find the best one.
After five days of going through the never-ending line of applicants, they still hadn’t found anyone who could ring those bells quite like Quasi, and were starting to feel it was hopeless. The sixth day, as there was only a trickle of applicants, they felt that nobody in the greater Paris metropolitan area was qualified for the job.
As they were about to give up on the sixth day of interviews, a guy with no arms comes in and tells them he wants to try out. The priests, practically in chorus, say, “But you have no arms!” After much gnashing of teeth, he convinces them to let him try despite the fact that he can’t pick up the hammer to ring the bells.
So this guy preps himself mentally, and starts hitting the bells with his head, making absolutely beautiful music. The bishops are absolutely amazed at this guy’s talent. As he’s hitting the final note of his masterpiece, he trips over the hammer left on the ground, and falls off the bell tower to his death.
The priests all run down and find a crowd gathered around his body, and the police are coming. The police ask the crowd, “Does anyone know this man’s name?!” The head bishop turns to the cop and says, “I don’t know, but his face sure rings a bell!”
The priests, all demoralized after the only good bell ringer they had fell to his untimely death, had little hope for getting an applicant after the story was on the front page of all the papers. So the bishop was really amazed when a man was waiting for him to open the doors in the morning. He saw the shock on their faces and explained, “I am the brother of the armless man who died yesterday. His life’s wish was to become a bell ringer at Notre Dame, and so I’d like to honor his memory by giving it a try.”
The bishop was amazed and hauled him upstairs to the waiting priests in the bell tower.
The man picked up the hammer, goes to strike the first note, and drops dead. The priests all run over, amazed by their horrible luck, and ask the bishop, “Who is this guy?!”
The bishop turns to them and says, “I don’t know, but he sure is a dead ringer for his brother.”
