Friday, April 22, 2011

Today's hUMOR

"Priceless Grandparent Stories - Part 3"
11. Subject: Children's Logic: Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a teacher. The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant." The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked. "Sure," said the young boy confidently. "It means carrying a child."
12. A grandmother was surprised by her 7-year-old grandson one morning. He had made her coffee. She drank what was the worst cup of coffee in her life. When she got to the bottom, there were three of those little green army men in the cup. She said, "Honey, what are these army men doing in my coffee?" Her grandson said, "Grandma, it says on TV - "The best part of waking up is soldiers in your cup!'"
13. Susie Sunshine asked her Sunday School class to draw pictures of their favorite Bible stories. She was puzzled by Jimmie's picture which showed four people on an airplane, so she asked him which story it was meant to represent.
"The flight to Egypt." said Jimmy. "I see, and that must be Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus," Ms Susie said. But who's the fourth person?" "Oh, that's Pontius - the Pilot."
14. A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog's duties. "They use him to keep crowds back," said one youngster. "No," said another, "he's just for good luck." A third child brought the argument to a close. "They use the dogs", she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrant."

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King Arthur's Unknown Knights
It is a little-known fact that King Arthur had more knights than is usually believed. They included:
~ Sir Face - the devastatingly handsome, but disappointingly shallow knight
~ Sir Pass - Arthur's best knight of all
~ Sir Port - A great help to all the other knights
~ Sir Culation - A knight who got around a bit - popular at parties
~ Sir Prise - the knight who could always be relied on to do the unexpected
~ Sir Vey - a watchful knight
~ Sir Monise - a rather long-winded and droning knight, but a good, moral sort
~ Sir Cuitous - a knight who approached his duties in a roundabout way
~ Sir Pose - a knight who stands by wild predictions
~ Sir Cumflex - a knight with a strange accent
~ Sir Cumvent - the evasive knight
~ Sir Reen - a calm and cheerful knight
~ Sir Spicious - a paranoid knight
~ Sir Real - a vague and insubstantial knight
~ Sir Cumstances - a knight whose fault it never was
Then there were the non identical twins - Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice - the longest and shortest knights.

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One Liner
"At my age, forget all the health food; I need all the preservatives I can get!"

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CleanQuote
"It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all."
~ James Thurber

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"Brighten Your Corner"
Featured Illustration items are well suited for introducing or illuminating a point in a sermon, speech, or devotional. Funny, moving, or perhaps even graphic, the point of them is the point you make with them.
We cannot all be famous
or be listed in "Who's Who",
But every person, great or small,
has important work to do.
For seldom do we realize
the importance of small deeds,
Or to what degree of greatness
unnoticed kindness leads.
For it's not the big celebrity
in a world of fame and praise,
But it's doing unpretentiously
in an undistinguished way
The work that God assigned to us,
unimportant as it seems,
That makes our task outstanding,
and brings reality to dreams.
So do not sit and idly wish
for wider, new dimensions
where you can put into practice
your many good intentions.
But at the spot God placed you
begin at once to do,
Little things to brighten up
the lives surrounding you.
If everybody brightened up
the spot where they're standing,
By being more considerate,
and a little less demanding,
This dark old world would very soon
eclipse the evening star,
If everybody brightened up
the corner where they are!
- Author Unknown