[A friend forwarded this touching story] I spent the week before my daughter’s June wedding running last minute trips to the caterer, florist, tuxedo shop, and the church about forty miles away. As happy as I was that Patsy was marrying a good Christian young man, I felt laden with…
10/30/09 Grif.Net – Early for Halloween
An old codger was sitting on his porch this morning, enjoying his rocking chair on one of the last nice days of Autumn. A young man walked up with a pad and pencil in his hand and asked to come up on the porch. “Are you a day early for…
10/29/09 Grif.Net – Last Bunch, I Promise
[Unless more “imponderables” that are far from the ordinary oft-repeated fare pop up in my mail box, this is the end. Maybe. When you put a sheet over your head for Halloween, are you a ghost or a mattress? What makes cheese so confidential that we actually need cheese shredders?…
10/28/09 Grif.Net – Want even MORE??
[Another day, even MORE unanswerable questions] If you’re a kleptomaniac, is there something you can take for it? Is drilling for oil boring? Is the nose the scenter of the face? If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags? If a candle factory burns down, does everyone just stand…
10/27/09 Grif.Net – More Questions Without Answers
[After Monday’s bad food questions, I’m getting inundated with more . . . ] Can you get cavities in your dentures if you use too much artificial sweetener? Are part-time band leaders semi-conductors? Are you breaking the law if you drive past those road signs that say “Do Not Pass”?…
10/26/09 Grif.Net – Questions about Food
If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi? Do donuts have holes to remind you of the nutrition you’re missing? Who first discovered they could get milk from cows, and what did they think they were doing? Why does Jell-O have a smell when you add…
10/24/09 Weekend Grif.Net – Heaven on Earth
[Terry Pluto wrote this about a recent visit to Wyoming and it made my heart thump] There are some images of heaven with angels floating on clouds and playing harps, or perhaps of heaven as a never-ending church service where people sing and pray until they drop. I don’t know…
10/23/09 Grif.Net – You Know You’re Drinking Too Much Coffee When…
You Know You’re Drinking Too Much Coffee When… You answer the door before people knock. Juan Valdez named his donkey after you. You just completed another sweater and you don’t know how to knit. You have to watch videos in fast-forward. You can jump-start your car without battery cables. You…
10/22/09 Grif.Net – Cooks
You Might Be a Bad Cook if . . . Your microwave display reads “TILT!” You know dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off. Your dog goes to the neighbors’ to eat. Your family automatically heads for the dinner table every time they hear a fire truck siren.…
10/21/09 Grif.Net – Odd Facts to Amaze Both Your Friends
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) ****** The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (That would be…
10/20/09 Grif.Net – Economic Indicators
I was walking with a friend, and he surprised me by stating he was a “Leading Economic Indicator”. I had to ask him WHY he thought so. He replied, “My hair line is in recession, my stomach is a victim of inflation, my back wants to bail out on me…
10/19/09 Grif.Net – Ticket
Trying to fix his stalled car, Mr. “A” (he asked to keep his name anonymous) broke the gas line. The gas soaked his shirt, but the car started. Driving to a repair shop, he lit a cigarette and his sleeve caught fire. Thinking that the wind would extinguish the flame,…
10/17/10 Weekend Grif.Net – Church Split
[As my faithful readers know, during the week we send inane humor, but on the weekend we focus on serious moral, ethical, political or religious issues. This is a true story.] One night in a church service a young woman felt the tug of God at her heart. She responded…