Humor | Hypocrisy | Sports
AUTUMN RITUALS The start of the deer hunting season in Vermont is an event of special significance. Each year, on opening day, a substantial portion of the male population retires […]
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Humor
Health | Humor
HUMOR, ET C. Jokes are no laughing matter to the brain. They are a type of release valve that enables us to think the unthinkable, accept the unacceptable, discover new
Humor | Stewardship
WEIGHT LOSS When a matron was signing up for exercise classes, the instructor told her to be sure to wear loose clothing to class. She responded, “Listen, if I had
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Aging | Humor | Knowledge | Wisdom
AGING Great-Aunt Lucy had become somewhat deaf, and a specialist suggested an operation to improve her hearing. But she promptly vetoed the idea, saying: “I’m 94 years old, and I’ve
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Defeat | Fear | Humor | Motivation
THE GIFT OF MOTIVATION There was a young man who took a short cut home late one night-through the cemetery. And he fell in an open grave. He called, he
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Death | Eternal Life | Heaven | Hope | Humor | Resurrection
CONFUSED After he was defeated for the Presidency, Thomas E. Dewey said the best analogy of his feelings the day after — when he saw defeat snatched from the jaws
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Choice | Humor | Opportunity
OPENING LINE I went to hear a lecture by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. the other night at Flint Center in Cupertino. He started out with one of my favorite openers, saying
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Humor | Knowledge | Marriage
ALIBI A husband and wife were sitting in a movie theater, engrossed in a suspenseful Hollywood whodunit in which there were at least a dozen possible murder suspects. “I bet
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Compromise | Humor | Money
EVERYBODY WANTS TO MAKE A BUCK DEPARTMENT I read the following story in Ronald Reagan’s early autobiography (written before he became Guv, let alone President), entitled Where Is The Rest
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Children | Family | Humor
SUMMER SCENE When little Jimmy returned home from summer camp, his parents asked him if he had been homesick. He replied, “Not me, but some of the kids were who
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Character | Humor | Joy | Praise
OVERHEARD CONVERSATION “Did you wake up grumpy this morning?” “No I let him sleep in.”
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Guidance | Holy Spirit | Humor | Preaching | Truth
WAITING FOR THE DIRECT MESSAGE FROM GOD FOR YOUR PEOPLE Do you ever step up to the pulpit on Sunday morning knowing you are not as well prepared as you
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Children | Family | Humor | Marriage | Stewardship
THE GROWING FAMILY We hear a great deal these days about family life, and certainly there has been a great number of books on love, marriage, raising kids, solving marital
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Death | Humor | Rest
SICK JOKE DEPARTMENT Also under the somewhat sick joke department was the recent Wizard of Id cartoon that showed the king chatting with the undertaker in front of the funeral
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Defeat | Depression | Discouragement | Humor | Joy | Peace | Rest
HAVE A NICE DAY Most of us in our more cynical moments have questioned the sincerity of people who tell everybody to “have a nice day.” One lady was overheard
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Communication | Complain | Humor | Jealousy | Understanding
FOURTH PLACE — ONE WITH GESTURES The story that was awarded fourth place is one that is best seen told rather than reading it. I heard (and saw) it told
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Backsliding | Disobedience | Failure | Humor
DON’T THROW ME INTO THAT BRIAR PATCH DEPT If you know what a wine brick is — you were drinking during prohibition. When wine was outlawed, bootleggers began to press
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Appearance | Humor | Youth
IN TIME WE LOOK SILLIER Peter C. Schroder, Jr. of San Pedro sent in this one I heard years ago and had forgotten. It seems that in seminary two men
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Busyness | Humor | Worry | Zeal
BUT HURRY “This is the age of the half-read page and the quick hash and the mad dash; the bright night with the nerves tight; the plane hop and the
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Humor | Knowledge | Technology
THE HUMAN WAY OF THINKING I found the following story in the popular new book, In Search of Excellence: Lessons From America’s Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters and Robert
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