BOYS VIEW GIRLS Here is a boy’s description of girls — misspelling and all — that Mark Twain had received from a teacher who submitted to him a collection of […]
GRANDMA’S ADVICE Grandma had been sitting quietly in the back seat, but now she spoke up: “I told them Constable, that we would never get far in a stolen car.”
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MARRIAGE IS RELATIVE An eight year old boy asked his girlfriend to marry him. She turned him down, saying that in her family only relatives married. She explained, “If you
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POPULAR COUNSELOR A couple with marital problems went to a counselor to see what could be done to repair their marriage. The wife began to sob uncontrollably as she poured
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CREATIVE SOLUTION The Sunday School teacher had just read the story of how God created man. She asked the class if they had any questions. One of the little boys
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MONOSYLLABIC MALES After twenty-plus years of asking me questions and receiving monosyllabic answers like “uh: and “mmm,” she (my wife) claims this inability to communicate in understandable sentences remains constant
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MARRIAGE TRADE-INS The four-year-old daughter of a used car salesman, attending her first church wedding, watched as the bride walked to the altar on the arm of an elderly gray-haired
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THE IDEAL MALE COMBINATION I ‘d be the happiest girl in the world if only I could combine the two men I’m dating,” one girl said to a friend. “One
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NO NEED FOR SCHOOL A six-year-old boy came home dejected from his first day at school and announced, “I am not going to school tomorrow.” “Why not?” his mother inquired.
OPPORTUNITY MISSED or JURY PIGS A new attorney had filed suit on behalf of his first client against a man for stealing 24 of his client’s hogs. In his attempt
THE NEXT BEST THING A man was beginning to have health problems, so he went to see his doctor. His doctor examined him and told him, “The best thing you
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BIG THINGS FIRST Management consultant Steven Covey tells of standing before a seminar with an empty canister. He filled the canister with large rocks and asked, “Is it full?” Almost
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LOVE LOST Bishop Richard C. Raines once told of a bright young woman who had decided that she wanted to dedicate her life to helping others, especially people in trouble,
LOGICAL LAWS Harding’s Homily: “It’s hard to be nostalgic when you can’t remember anything.” Johnson’s Law: “There’s nothing to scratch but the surface.” William’s Law: “There is not a mechanical
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SHOWING HIS GRATITUDE An Italian barber, giving a man a haircut, learns that his client is a Protestant minister. When it comes time to pay, the barber says, “Reverend, of
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COPING WITH CUSTOMS The wife of an Army Colonel had made an all-night flight to meet her husband at his latest military assignment in Germany. She wearily arrived at Rhein-Main
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CAN’T FIND SISTER In an episode of the comic strip For Better or For Worse, Michael, the teenage boy of the family is tormenting the family dog: pulling a bone
INTERPRETING DREAMS A wife said to her husband over breakfast, “I had a dream last night that you gave me a pearl necklace. What do you suppose that means?” He
BLACK EYE PROGNOSIS A doctor was examining an eyebrow laceration on a very active three-year-old. Two nurses and an orderly were required to restrain the screaming child. Noting the incipient
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WRONG INFORMATION I knew this fellow who went to seminary. He was brilliant, was first in his class, Phi Beta Kappa, about as bright as anybody who’d ever graduated from
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