THE MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF GOD Oppressed by the noonday heat, a tired farmer sat under a walnut tree to rest. Relaxing, he looked at his pumpkin vines and said to […]
MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING It seems a rabbi and a cantor were in the synagogue one evening rehearsing a service. To dramatically make his point the rabbi fell to
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SHORT SHOT In Washington D.C. a visitor asked a passerby on C Street, “Which side is the State Department on?” The reply, “Ours, I think.”
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SHORT SHOT After the Six Day War, Egypt’s Nasser said the war was unfair because Israel had two million Jews and he didn’t have any.
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SHORT SHOT How can you prove that Jesus was Jewish? 1) He was thirty years old and wasn’t married, 2) His mother thought he was God, 3) He went to
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SHORT SHOT A sign carried by a hitchhiker: “Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go.”
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SHORT SHOT A Minneapolis man told his pastor that he was leaving the church because he finally looked into that book the pastor was always citing and he noted, “It
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LAWYERS QUESTION: What is the difference between an accident involving a rabbit and a car accident involving a lawyer? ANSWER: There are skid marks running up to the rabbit. For
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IF THY SERMON OFFENDS THEE A preacher came to the breakfast table with a cut on his cheek. His wife asked him what had happened. He replied that he was
MOVIE CUE A small boy went to the movies with his still smaller brother and, after they’d seated themselves, asked, “Can you see, Willie?” “Nope,” was the reply. “Well,” said
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TO LATE TO TELL Boss to tardy employee: “You’re twenty minutes late again! Don’t you know what time our people start work here?” Employee: “No sir, they’ve always already started
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FRIENDSHIP IN SUFFERING I heard Dr. Steven Brown recently give the following quote and thought it might be helpful. “Jimmy Durante once said, I couldn’t warm up to that guy
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PLURALITY OF WORDS The question of the correct plural of the word “mongoose” was solved by a gentleman who wanted a pair of these interesting and affectionate creatures. He wrote
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KNOW THE LETTERS “It’s not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.” Vanna White (co-host of “Wheel of Fortune”), from Campus Life,
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THE NUN AND THE BED PAN A little nun was on a much desired mission assignment to the Apache Indians. She is so excited that she drives past the last
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CORN ON THE PALM On Palm Sunday, I took my three-year-old nephew to Church. When the ushers walked down the aisle with armloads of palms, Mike cried out, “Oh boy,
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A FAIR PRICE In Harrieta, Michigan, a thirty year old man entered a Methodist Church on Sunday morning and held the congregation hostage with a rifle. While police were en
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CHARACTER CRISIS Our six-year-old son Mark was thumbing through a Japanese cookbook and asked about the squiggly symbols. My husband explained that they were Japanese words, and that he couldn’t
BOTTOM DOLLAR A little girl walked into a country grocery and, placing an earthen jar on the counter, asked for a quarter’s worth of molasses. Soon the jar was filled,
“SWEET” SHORT SHOT OPTIMISM: An optimist is someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way. Submitted by Diana Van Dyke, from Kraft Sugar. Kraft Inc.
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