INSURED CIGARS A cigar smoker bought several hundred expensive cigars and had them insured against fire. After he’d smoked them all, he filed a claim, pointing out that the cigars […]
Deceit | Humor | Insurance | Justice | Law | Lawyers | Revenge Read More »
APPLAUSE FOR THE SHULAS Years ago, Miami Dolphins coach, Don Shula, was vacationing in Maine with his wife and five children. One rainy afternoon they went to the town’s only
GARLIC SANDWICH Have you heard about the new garlic sandwich diet? GARLIC sandwiches? Yeah. You don’t lose any weight, but you look a little smaller from a distance.
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CHICKENS OR OWLS The teenage son told his father that when he finished college, he wanted to settle down and raise chickens. His father responded: “Son, take my advice. Forget
MUSIC & SPINACH It helps to think of rock music as youth’s way of getting even for spinach. Robert Orben
PHENOMENAL ODDS If the odds are a million to one against something bad occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.
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SERMON SUBJECTS The new minister asked, “What should I preach about?” “About heaven and fifteen minutes!” was the reply.
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THE CALLAHAN CURSE I love the story of two women who met at a cocktail party after a separation of many years. After the initial delighted exchange of greetings, the
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HEAVEN OR HELL Heaven is where the police are British, and cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian, and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is
DADDY GOT TWO SHOTS The cold and flu season had come to our church and I was talking to one of the first graders after she and her father had
ELECTRONIC EXCEPTIONS On a recent flight to Washington, D.C., heard over the intercom system: “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We’ll be reaching our cruising altitude of thirty
NAME A BABY GRANDMA A mother was explaining to her preschool daughter how families work. She told her daughter that when she was a baby, her mother was Grandma, and
MESSY WAY TO FAME Child to mother: “My teacher thinks I’m going to be famous. She said all I have to do is mess up one more time and I’m
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STOLEN PLEDGES The sexton ran into the rabbi’s apartment near the temple and said excitedly, “Rabbi, somebody broke into the synagogue office yesterday and stole $80,000 in pledges!”
TIME OF WORRY Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.
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THAT CREATURE DAD A son looks at his mother’s new fur coat and says, “Imagine how that helpless creature must have suffered just so that you could have that coat!”
THE MEN OF THE HOUSE A man was cleaning house while his wife was in town shopping. Decked out in an apron, while vacuuming, he heard the doorbell ring. Leaving
LOSING THEIR HEADS A few hundred years ago two men were talking in France. The one asked the other what he did for a living. The man said that he
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POOR JUDGE OF DOGS Teddy Roosevelt once had a little dog that was always getting into fights and always getting licked. Somebody said, “Colonel, he’s not much of a fighter.”
CATTLE CHARACTER To err is human, to moo bovine. See also The Pastor’s Story File issues: September, 1986–“To Pledge or Not to Pledge,” January, 1996–“Errant Erasers,” March, 1996–“How Sin Feels,”
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