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09/13/24 Grif.Net – Friday the 13th (+Answers to Famous Sentences Quiz)

09/13/24 Grif.Net – Friday the 13th (+Answers to Famous Sentences Quiz)

What day is worse than Friday the 13th?

Monday the whatever.

 

What do you call someone in a Hollywood h=
orror movie who wakes up on Saturday the 14th?
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Lucky.

Why do fish hate Friday the 13th?

Actually, they hate every fry day.

 

Why did the old m=
an wake up on Friday the 13th and decide that nothing bad could =
happen to him all day?

Because he was alrea=
dy married.

 

[I disagree with that old man. The calendar for 2024 is the same as 1=
968, so fun to relive events tied to that year of our courtship. Teresa and=
I had been at the same college in Minnesota, in choirs and programs, but N=
OT friends. Unknown to one another, we joined about 100 students transferri=
ng to be part of the founding of a new Baptist University in Wisconsin. We =
both were upperclassmen and assigned by the President’s wife to welco=
me new families, give tours, and be “host and hostess”. We soon=
got to know each other (and dislike each other) and it impacted our duties=
=2E On Friday the 13th of September 1968, a new snack area opene=
d for students, and we agreed to go there and “talk through” ou=
r issues. I bought her a dish of New York Cherry ice cream, and we sat and =
talked.

She asked my forgiveness for her cutting words/attitude tha=
t had developed over the two weeks working 10-hour days together. I accepte=
d.  She asked if I had anything to confess to her about my conduct or =
words. I looked her in the eyes and said, “No, I’m good.”=
  She angrily stood, took her now-melted ice cream, and dumped it in m=
y lap and left. I was smitten. Here was the type of woman of character and =
conviction (to say nothing of beauty and talent) I had sought, since I woul=
d be entering seminary and thus the pastorate. Obviously, things did work o=
ut for us that fall, and by Friday the 13th of December, we gain=
ed permission to become engaged. Friday the 13th is always a spe=
cial day for us!]

~~ANSWERS TO FAMOU=
S SENTENCES QUIZ~~

1. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomor=
row is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

L. M. Montgomery=
, Anne of Green Gables

 

2. “Nowadays=
people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Oscar Wilde,=
The Picture of Dorian Grey=

 

3. “=
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be l=
onely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her frie=
nds and there was one for every mood.”

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

4. “Time is the longest distan=
ce between two places.”

Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

 

5. “My advice is, never do tomorrow=
what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

Charles D=
ickens
, David Copperfield

 

6. “The same substance composes us — the tr=
ee overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we=
are all one, all moving to the same end.”

P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

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7. “Do I love you? My God, if your love w=
ere a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”=

William Goldm=
an
, The Princess Bride

 

8. “Time move=
s slowly but passes quickly.”

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

 

9. “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we =
have lost.”

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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10. “All human wisdom is summed up i=
n these two words – ‘Wait’ and ‘Hope’.”=

Al=
exandre Dumas
, The=
Count of Monte Cristo

 

11. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untol=
d story inside you.”

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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12. “Anything worth d=
ying for is certainly worth living for.”

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

 

13. “Get busy living or get busy =
dying.”

Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption

 

14. “All we can know is that =
we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.”

Leo Tolstoy, =
War and =
Peace

 

15. “By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, by the shining Big Sea water, =
stood the wigwam of Nokomis.”

Henry Lo=
ngfellow, Song of Hiawatha

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~~

Dr Bob Griffin

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