PREFERENTIAL POSTPONEMENTS How come the threat of bad weather postpones more yard chores than golf games? Adapted from Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate
BIBLE MYSTERIES A retreat master once told an amusing story about a country preacher who announced that he would preach on Noah and the Ark on the following Sunday. He
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JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS A guy goes into a ritzy night club, but he’s a Hell’s Angel’s type — dirty jeans and leather, huge bare arms with lots of tattoos. The
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A USEFUL COMPASS Why has no one ever invented a compass that points in a useful direction — like toward the place where you parked your car? Patrick F. McManus
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KID’S-EYE VIEW OF GOD Children’s Letters To God: “Dear God: In Sunday School they told us what you do. Who does it for you when you are on vacation?” “Dear
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HE LEAKS In the mountains of Tennessee they have a type of religion in which people get saved in the spring, grow cold in the summer, backslide in the autumn,
PASTORS AND LAWYERS IN HEAVEN A couple in South California were planning to get married, but before they were able to get married, they were swallowed up by an earthquake.
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FAT MAN FLOATING DEEP AND WIDE It was at the closing program of Vacation Bible School. All the children had been brought up front to sing some of the songs
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THE BOTTOM LINE A three-year-old boy went with his dad to see a new litter of kittens. On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother, “There were two boy kittens
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TURN IT OFF FIRST I remember the last time I received a good spanking from one of my parents. My youngest brother and I were helping my mother bake a
PRIOR COMMITMENT The following conversation was overheard in a New York subway: “Be reasonable, Phyllis. I made this date with Rita months before we were married!”
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WILL YOU WASH MY DISHES? Sometimes we get a distorted idea about what love is. One night, a man decided to show his wife how much he loved her. After
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WHEN YOUR WIFE CAN’T FIND YOU Leisure time is when your wife can’t find you.From Sunshine Magazine, July, 1973
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CAPITAL OF MISSOURI A mother was listening to her little boy say his prayers. “Thank you, Father, for Mommy, Daddy… and please make St. Louis the Capital of Missouri.” His
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MOTHER KNEADED HIM The Pillsbury dough-boy was recently interviewed and asked how he could always maintain such a joyful disposition in spite of the fact he was a bit overweight
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TEEN RENT Kevin, a friend of mine who lives at home, is not the neatest person in the world. One day his mother was lecturing him. “Look at your room!’
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ERMA BOMBECK’S TEN TIPS Never turn your back on a two-year old. Never pick out a Mother’s Day gift that you cannot afford. When traveling on an airline, check the
MOM AND THE CATSUP There was a father and son who went camping and spent the weekend together. On the way home, the father said, “There now, wasn’t that fun?”
OPINIONS OF MOTHERS The village philosopher says the most accurate evaluation of a man lies somewhere between the opinions of his mother-in-law and his mother.From “The Way I Heer’d It”
I WILL TOO At the wedding of my friend’s daughter, the minister asked Randy, the nervous young groom, “Will you take Dianne to be your lawfully wedded wife?” This was
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