LANDINGS NEED IMPROVEMENT The New Guinean tribesmen's introduction to the white man's Balus or "bird" was sometimes traumatic, sometimes humorous. In the 1950's pilot Peter Manser, flying a Taylorcraft Auster J-5 was carrying a young…
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NOTHING CAN GO WRONG The passengers on the commercial flight were settling in for a comfortable flight when a voice came over the loudspeaker welcoming them and announcing that the aircraft had finally reached its…
TECHNOLOGY ERRORS You think the Y2K problem is bad.... In March, 1992 a man living in Newton (near Boston), Massachusetts received a bill for his as yet unused gas line stating that he owed $0.00.…
PEOPLE TRAP You have heard that if someone builds a better mouse trap, people will beat a track to your door. But what if a mouse was to build a better people trap? Then people…
WRONG NUMBER A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone and told the guy that answered that…
YOU'VE GOT MAIL A man was mowing his front yard when his neighbor came out of the house and went straight to the mail box. His neighbor opened it, then slammed it shut and stormed…
CORPORATE AMERICANS You know you work in corporate America if . . . + You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies. + Your company welcome sign is…
HELPFUL PHONE FEATURES A young man wanted to get his beautiful blonde wife something nice for their first wedding anniversary. So he decides to buy her a cell phone. She is all excited, she loves…
COMPUTER VIRUS HOAX If you are currently hooked up to the internet--with e-mail and all that--then you are probably accustomed to virus alerts and virus alert hoaxes. Here is the ultimate virus alert hoax-- more…
HISTORICITY OF THE RESURRECTION Dr. Lee was a professor of anthropology who often mocked those religious fools who didn't believe in the theory of evolution. One day he was shocked to hear the Professor of…
INFECTED FILES OF OUR LIVES My computer contracted a virus last week. It affected many files and I had to download Norton Anti-Virus to get rid of it. Once the computer had been scanned by…
MODERN DANGERS The danger for modern man is that he would reduce the earth to a desert, the person to an automation, brotherly love to a planned collectivization, often introducing death where God wishes life.…
CIVILIZED NECESSITIES Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain
Children | Christmas | Communication | Computers | Dependence | Desire | E-Mail | Santa | Technology
SANTA DOES NOT GET E-MAIL As a little girl climbed onto Santa's lap, Santa asked the usual, "And what would you like for Christmas ?" The child stared at him open mouthed and horrified for…
BETTER BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS We have some friends who are missionaries in Brazil with ABWE. John and Yvonne Baab work in the area of theological education for local pastors. They produce a wonderful newsletter entitled "The…
THOREAU ON HUMANITY Thoreau writes, Men think that it is essential that the nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour . . . but whether…
FAST INFORMATION Information is fast, loud, superficial numbing. We can't get away from it. Wisdom is slower, deeper, lasting, more elusive. We can begin to make our way toward wisdom by clearing out the date…
KIND OF LIKE A PRINTER "Friday night, I brought a typewriter home from work so I could fill in a seven-part form. My four-year-old daughter took a look and said, 'What's that, Daddy?'" "I answered,…
GOOD OLD DAYS WERE TERRIBLE Cooking, the kitchen's major activity, was done in an open-hearth fireplace with crooks and arms or, more likely, on an iron stove. The early stove was an appliance of marked…
NAMES OR NUMBERS A census taker stopped at the door of a woman who had six children. He asked her how many children she had. She began to name each of her children. The census…
