TRASH TEAMWORK Maybe you heard the story about the woman who was away for a few days at a teacher’s convention. In the middle of the convention she suddenly remembered […]
AGELESS HONESTY Man is the only creature who spends two-thirds of his lifetime saving up for old age, and the last third denying that it has arrived.
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I DON’T THINK I KNOW A college professor scrawled a lengthy mathematical equation across the chalkboard. As he turned around, he caught one student’s head bobbing, so he fired a
MARITAL LIMITATIONS “Marriage is okay as long as you don’t get emotionally involved.” From The Lockhorns Cartoon, January 9, 1991
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MIDDLE AGES FATHER “I don’t know how old my Mom is but my Dad is in the middle ages.” From a Dennis the Menace Cartoon
SERMONIC LEFTOVERS A young pastor in his first charge announced nervously: “I will take for my text the words, ‘And they fed five men with five thousand loaves of bread
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KLINGON BIBLE TRANSLATION I just heard it on the news. Star Trek fans rejoice! Not only has the Klingon language been put into a dictionary — The Bible is now
GENDER BENDER The following was a reply to a church advertisement: “I am responding to your ad for an organist and choir master, either a lady or a gentleman. I
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CATCH OF THE DAY A sad-looking little boy had been waiting quite some time for his order of the catch of the day to be filled. Finally, the waiter showed
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A FULL VOICE President Theodore Roosevelt sang bass, but did not do so with any particular accomplishment. But he loved to use his deep resonate voice to sing. He was
AS SORRY AS HE GETS Dennis the Menace has done it again. He is kneeling on a rocking chair that is facing the corner. He turns around and petitions his
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FAR FROM THE FRONT LINE The war was raging; a young recruit was experiencing his first battle. The frightened soldier inched his way backward, backward and finally just turned and
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LENT OR LINT On the first Sunday of Lent, the preacher had invited all the children down front for the Children’s Sermon. After briefly talking about the day itself, he
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SEE NO EVIL Winky Ryatt, the youngest boy, is standing on a chair in the kitchen, taking a brownie from a pan on the counter. Mom catches him and says,
WHEN GOD CHOSE I know that God choose me before I was born, for He never would have chosen me afterwards. By Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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REPENTANCE ASSURED “As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent it.” Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
FAIR WARNING I was taking my mother for a drive, and she’d scold me whenever I went over the speed limit. Unfortunately I dismissed her advice, and a state trooper
FORGET THE EYE EXAM It had been many years since my last eye exam, and my wife was pestering me to make an appointment. The more she nagged, the more
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OPPORTUNITY OR PROBLEM Barb and her husband Chuck were youth leaders who had just arrived at a campground for a weekend retreat with a youth group. While Chuck unloaded the
PASS THE BUCK Passing the buck: A child with a dollar bill was heading out to the drug store for an ice cream sundae. “Why don’t you give your dollar
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