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[Lots= of riddles, funny thoughts, odd questions, and silly or clever answers to = give much fun for April’s Fools Day for the whole family. I would not= “bet the farm” on the truth of any of these jokes or phrases.]= Q. How do you make the number one disappear?A.…

= Q. Why are March 31st babies easy to fool on April 1st? A. They literally were born yesterday. Q. Why was t= he March calendar so scared on April 1st?A. Because it knew = it was about to be fooled.   Q. Why didn&#= 8217;t A and C prank…

In th= e ancient Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible, love is not confined to a si= ngle word or idea. Last week we examined a few Old Testament verses to broa= den our understanding of God’s love. Today we look at the New Testame= nt, written in Greek,…

[Cont= inuing our week of English quotations and poetry, this little verse from Ro= bert Louis Stevenson crossed my mind and dribbled out. And drove me to Mirr= iam’s bosom – as  I call my dictionary – to find out that&= nbsp; his use of “arrant” was not “errant” (the…

[This= was taken from an English as a Second Language (ESL) textbook.  I&#82= 17;s thankful that I leart me gooder English at home and now no better.]   Have you ever seen a sheet on a river bed?= Or a single hair from a hammer’s head? Has the = foot…

[Among the million words that the English language supposedly i= ncludes, some of them sound very strange. Other words are written in an une= xpected way. Most of these words were never taught in your English language= class unless you had ME for a professor.]   **Scrumptious – this word…

This is a multipart message in MIME format. ——=_NextPart_000_03FA_01DB9D6D.E0442500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Famous quotations are well known. Sadly, we often forget the original speaker/writer or the context in which they were given. How many of these wise or pithy sayings can you correctly attribute?] 1. “If you are…

[This week will focus on words, poems, quotations= sure to bring an “amen” from the lips of English majors who us= ually ask “do you want fries with that? Note about this poem: I was a= romantic fool back in the 60’s and high . . . on lfe. Can’t…

In the inspired texts of the Bible, love is not confined to a s= ingle word or idea. The Hebrew (Old Testament) uses a variety of terms like= ‘ahavah,’ ‘chesed,’ and ‘rachamim,’ ea= ch offering a nuanced view of love that ranges from affection and kindness = to mercy and…

[I st= ill smile at the clever rhythms and rhymes of a good limerick. Trust these,= dubbed “favorites” in Limerick itself, will turn that frown up= side down.]   = The bottle of perfume that W= illie sentWas highly displeasing to Millicent;Her thanks were so co= ldThey quarreled, I’m told,‘Bout…

[We u= sed a couple of limericks yesterday, so thought a few more couldn’t h= urt.  And must feature some clean classic lines you all may remember. = Smile.] A major, with wonderful force,Called out in Hyde Park fo= r a horse.All the flowers looked round,But no horse could be…

A lim= erick is a short, humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aa= bba. This form of poem owes its name to a group of poets from the = port city of Limerick in west-central Ireland, who wrote such verses.   A certain young fellow named Bee-BeeWishe= d to wed…

[Toda= y’s quiz focuses on names of countries in Africa. In my lifetime, mos= t the former European colonies have new names and many of the nations have = changed their names, too.  I will give you the OLD names and all you m= ust do is give the PRESENT…