A man = observed a woman in the grocery store with a three year old girl riding = in her shopping cart. As they passed the cookie section, the little girl = asked for cookies and her mother told her, "No." The little = girl immediately began to whine and…
10/12/17 Grif.Net – Modern Art
Visiting the modern art museum, = a lady turned to an attendant standing nearby, and pointed. = "This," she said, "I suppose, is one of those = hideous representations you call modern art?" "No, = Madam," replied the attendant. "That one’s called ‘a = mirror’." ~~ Dr Bob Griffin…
10/11/17 Grif.Net – Odds & Ends (English)
No word in the English language rhymes with month, = orange, silver, or purple. The = "sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick" is said to be the = toughest tongue twister in the English language. "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in = the English language. =C2=A0Many agree…
10/10/17 Grif.Net – About My Health
Smoking will kill you. Bacon will kill you. Smoking = bacon will cure it. Spoiler = alert! The milk has been in the fridge for three weeks. I always = feel better when my doctor says something is ‘normal’ for my = age. But then I think dying…
10/09/17 Grif.Net – Hah Tu Spek Suthrun
BARD – verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to = borrow." Usage: "My = brother bard my pickup truck." JAWJUH – = noun. A hot region just north of Florida. Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup = truck." MUNTS – noun. A calendar division. Usage: "My…
10/07/17 Weekend Grif.Net – Open Season
I’m looking forward to hunting season, but I do have a question. = If I shoot a buck, but I only have a doe tag, can I claim that the buck = wasn’t really a buck? I mean, maybe the buck always wanted to be a doe, but with…
10/06/17 Grif.Net – Cremated
A = businessman on his deathbed called his friend and said, "Bill, I = want you to promise me that when I die you will have my remains = cremated." "And what," his friend asked, "do = you want me to do with your ashes?" The businessman said, = "Just…
10/05/17 Grif.Net – New Novel
I’m = thinking about writing a novel centered on the lives of two = ex-convicts. One of them studied to become a lawyer. The other = one decides to go straight. ~~ Dr Bob Griffin = [email protected] www.grif.net = "Jesus Knows Me, This I = Love!"
10/04/17 Grif.Net – Odds & Ends (Baseball)
In 1963, major league = baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They’ll put a man on the = moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour = after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit his = first, and only, home…
10/03/17 Grif.Net – Language
At our = University, students in the psychology program were attending their = first class dealing with emotional extremes. "Just to establish some = parameters," asked the professor to a student from Wisconsin, = "what is the opposite of joy?" "Sadness," said the = student. "And the…
10/02/17 Grif.Net – Words @ Play
[First weekday = of the month means more “Adventures in Punland” for = you] The rotation = of the earth really makes my day. Got an email = about ‘How To Read Maps Backward’, but it turned out to be = spam. Napoleon may = not have…
09/30/17 Weekend Grif.Net – Pumpkins
A lady had recently been born again and baptized. = When she went to work, one of her co-workers asked her what it was like = to be a Christian. She was caught off guard and didn’t = really know how to answer, but when she looked up, she saw…
09/29/17 Grif.Net – Did You Know? (part 5)
* Cleopatra lived closer in = time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great = Pyramid. * The largest air = force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest is the = US Navy. * A banana is =…