PRIVACY ABOUT ONE’S AGE Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked which of the Gabors is the oldest, and she replied, “Well, she’d never admit it — but it’s Mama.” Adapted from […]
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IT’S ALL RELATIVE When Oliver Wendell Holmes was still on the Supreme Court bench, he and Justice Brandeis took walks every afternoon. On one of these occasions Holmes, then 92,
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SENSITIVITY Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was a British poet and the daughter of Sir George Sitwell. She and her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell were rebels against bourgeois philistinism. Osbert told
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A SECOND LOOK An Irishman of age 41 was swept by patriotic fervor and endeavored to enlist in the army. Although the recruiting sergeant saw that this man would make
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EQUIPMENT NEEDED To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, the couple returned to their honeymoon hotel. After retiring the wife said, “Darling, do you remember how you stroked my hair?” And
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ALL THAT IS NEEDED A boy was trying hard to think of something to buy for his girlfriend. Finally, he asked his mother for a suggestion. He said, “If you
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AGING Everybody wants to live long, though nobody wants to be old. La Rochefeucauld . . . Weather forcasting has been speeded up, but it’s still several hours behind arthritis.
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OBVIOUS CLUES A French taxicab driver once played a joke on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The man had driven Sir Arthur from the station to a hotel, and when he
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BUSINESS We are all manufacturers — some make good, others make trouble and still others make excuses.
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SUNDAY MORNING WEATHER REPORT A lady in the Midwest had often complained about the preacher being long-winded. One winter day, however, she inadvertently described the Sunday morning dilemma as she
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SYMBOLS OF WORSHIP A little boy and his Dad were in church, and the boy asked, “Dad, what does it mean when those men pass those plates?” The Dad said,
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MADISON AVENUE Ad for sneakers: This is the shoe you’ll wear if you want to be just like all the other individualists. Campbell’s Notebook
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JULIUS CAESAR Brutus and Cassius are talking privately to one side while the people are cheering Caesar. Cassius shares some embittered thoughts: I was born free as Caesar, so were
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AH, ARE YOU DIGGING ON MY GRAVE? Thomas Hardy published a number of clever and witty poems under the general title Satires of Circumstance. One of the most delightful is
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STEWARDSHIP PLAN When our church kicked off a stewardship campaign to pay off the debt on the buildings, the pastor suggested that husbands and wives pray separately about the amount
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TIMING IS EVERYTHING It’s not that I spend more than I earn, it’s just that I spend it quicker than I earn it. Apples of Gold, compiled by Jo Petty
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LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR A man was bothered with his neighbor’s chickens getting in his yard, sidewalk, drive and porch. They left quite a mess. So one night he planted a
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CHILDREN’S LETTERS TO GOD A little girl wrote a letter to God which read: “Dear God, hugging is a good thing. Did You think it up? — Alice” Another little
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PSYCHIC LIMITATIONS How come you never see this in the headlines?: PSYCHIC WINS LOTTERY! Jay Leno
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MURPHY’S LAW FOR CHURCHES The longest Scripture readings always come on Communion Sundays./The probability of the pastor tripping over the mike cord is greater in special holiday services than at
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