CENTIPEDE TIME A football game on Noah’s Ark. It was the team with the rhinoceros that were 24-0 at the end of the first half. The losing team was justifiably […]
NOT MUCH AT AGE TWENTY “Anybody who can still do at sixty what he was doing at twenty wasn’t doing much at twenty.” By Jimmy Townsend
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WHEN TO CUT THE HOOK I was ten years old when my younger brother hooked me behind the ear with his new bass plug. Traveling over rough country roads for
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NO EXCEPTIONS “I’m very sorry,” said the personnel manager, “but if I let you take two hours off for lunch today, I’d have to do the same for every other
WRONG PRESCRIPTION An explosion occurred in the back room of the drugstore. The pharmacist emerged with black smoke marks on his face and his jacket in tatters. Staggering up to
GLUE DOWN THE AUDIENCE Dustin Farnumm, a talented but conceited actor, once crooned on to his dinner host, writer Oliver Herford, about a play he was doing at the time.
CAUGHT CANDY-HANDED An Arizona businessman was entertaining the wife of a wealthy rancher at a fine French restaurant near Scottsdale’s high-end Fifth Avenue district. Throughout the five-course dinner, the woman
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THE TOIL OF TENNIS Ruth Graham tells the story of the early days of missionary work in China. The missionaries knew the importance of relaxation and built a tennis court
NO JOB FOR A LADY A motorist noticed a woman standing beside her car, looking helplessly at a flat tire. He stopped and began removing the tire. “Oh, thank you,”
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NOT DEAD YET The man’s plane crashed in the heart of the darkest jungles of Africa. He pried himself from the wreckage and began to work his way through the
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COLLEGIATE ADVICE A literature student, upon graduating from Harvard, went to T.S. Eliot to get advice. For a while Eliot said nothing, then he said, “40 years ago I went
STAINED GLASS FAME A young boy, away at boarding school, wrote home after his first visit to the school’s chapel: “It has lovely stained glass windows with pictures of people
THE OLD GOAT The young couple invited their parson for Sunday dinner. While they were in the kitchen preparing the meal, the minister asked their son what they were having.
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LUCKY GUESS A farmer was walking down the road carrying a sack. His neighbor was driving his pickup and pulled alongside of him and asked him what was in his
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MISS ARIZONA My husband and I decided to take our children on a vacation to Arizona to show them where we lived for eight and a half years after we
TWO RULES FOR HARVARD’S SUCCESS A former treasurer of Harvard once told me that he had two golden rules for managing the Harvard portfolio: 1) Never consult the economics department.
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THE BRIDE WON’T OBEY “How did the wedding go?” asked the minister’s wife. “Fine, my dear, until I asked the bride if she would obey, and she said, ‘Do you
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HUMAN PRETZEL WORK I heard it said, “Put your nose to the grindstone, put your shoulder to the wheel, your hands to the plow and feet to the feat. Put
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IN TWO PLACES On the TV show Hee Haw, Doc Campbell is confronted by a patient who says he broke his arm in two places. The doc replies “Well, then
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POWERLESS CAPE David received a Superman cape for his third birthday. Ecstatic, he donned the cape and ran as fast as he could around the backyard. Shortly, he returned to
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