[To conclude our week of food tips and tests, here in something to consider about food/drink that just may be past its prime] The Gag Test – Anything that makes you gag is spoiled except for leftovers from what you cooked for yourself last night. Eggs – When something starts…
05/21/15 Grif.Net – Little Known Facts about Chocolate
[In our focus this week on food and drink, we thought it wise to share some facts about eating chocolate] 1. If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly. 2. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat…
05/20/15 Grif.Net – Coffee Addict
[After yesterday’s important warning about “bread”, Pastor Dan responded: “One really crummy post from a crusty old man. No matter how you slice it, is this half-baked post something we kneaded?” Alrighty then. Today we turn from bread to coffee. Keep a tally of the YES responses to these 30…
05/19/15 Grif.Net – Dangers of Bread
Important Warning for those who have been drawn unsuspectingly into the use of bread: 1. More than 98% of convicted felons are bread users. 2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests. 3. In the 18th century, when virtually all…
05/18/15 Grif.Net – Reunion
50th high school reunion upcoming. Heard about a husband who went with his wife to her 50th high school reunion. After meeting several of her friends and former schoolmates, they are sitting at a table where he is yawning and overly bored. The band cranks up and people begin to…
05/16/15 Weekend Grif.Net – Tributes to Teachers
[This week I zinged students/teachers as the school-year closes. Here are some thoughts on teachers that are worth looking at again.] Newspaper correction: “It was incorrectly reported last Friday that today is T-shirt Appreciation Week. It is actually Teacher Appreciation Week.” ~~ During the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, James Michener…
05/15/15 Grif.Net – Class Picture
In addition to the individual “school pictures” taken each grade, as the school year ended the children were all photographed as a class. Their teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. “Just think,” she said, “how nice it will be to look…
05/14/15 Grif.Net – Been at College Too Long
[Many students have spent the last 9 months in college and maybe, just maybe, gotten too used to that life. Do YOU need to go home for the summer?] Maybe you’ve been in college too long if . . . *You consider McDonald’s to be “real food”. *You would actually…
05/13/15 Grif.Net – Homework Problem
A small boy was struggling with his math homework. After a while, he turned to his father and asked, “Dad, can you help me?” His father frowned and said, “I could, son, but you know that just wouldn’t be right, would it?” “Probably not,” said the boy, “But you could…
05/12/15 Grif.Net – Grades
Having seen their twelve-year-old son fail every subject in school the fall semester, my friends decided to send him to a special tutor this spring. As the semester was winding down, they asked the tutor how he was doing. “Well, now he’s getting straight A’s,” said the tutor. “That’s great,”…
05/11/15 Grif.Net – Haircut
Jill accompanied her husband when he went to get a haircut. Reading a magazine, she found a hairstyle she liked for herself, so she asked the barber if she could take the magazine next door to make a copy of the photo. “Leave some ID, a driver’s license or a…
05/09/15 Weekend Grif.Net – Mothers
While countries around the world celebrate their own Mother’s Day at different times throughout the year, several countries, including the United States, Italy, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Turkey celebrate it on the second Sunday of May. In the United States, the origins of the official holiday go back to…
05/08/15 Grif.Net – PC Insults, part V
[Final set on “insults” to use on your friends or enemies who ain’t got the good sense that God gave a turnip. These all come from Grif.Net Blog readers, who obviously fit the above description well.] 41. Dropped on his head one too many times. 42. Too many bats in…