I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough. Some may stumble, but not you, on hiccough, thorough, slough, and through. So now are you ready, perhaps, to learn of less familiar traps? *Beware of heard, a dreadful word, that looks like beard, but sounds…
01/01/15 Grif.Net – Munthly Punthly
[Time for first-of-the-month really bad word plays] I got a dart board for Christmas and put it on the ceiling, but I don’t like using it. It makes me throw up. I bought some Doritos swimming trunks today. I might go for a dip later. Speaking of that, I was…
12/31/14 Grif.Net – New Year’s Eve Quotations
[Some funny, some pithy, some inspirational. Here are some quotations as we say good-bye to 2014 and rejoice in a New Year ahead] “A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” ~Dr Phil McGraw “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year…
12/30/14 Grif.Net – Racism
Everyone seems to be in such a hurry to scream ‘racism’ these days. Even here in Casper. A customer asked, “In what aisle can I find genuine Wisconsin Bratwurst?” The shop clerk looked up with a question of his own: “Are you from Wisconsin?” The guy, clearly offended, replied, “Why,…
12/29/14 Grif.Net – Curtains for You
After 37 years of marriage. Jake dumped his wife for his young secretary. His new girlfriend demanded that they live in Jake and Edith’s multi-million dollar home and since the man’s lawyers were a little better he prevailed. He gave Edith his now ex-wife just 3 days to move out.…
12/27/14 Weekend Grif.Net – Making Resolutions?
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions By Rabbi Brad Hirschfield Making New Year’s resolutions is relatively easy, but keeping them, not so much. Here are six tips based on the Bible and ancient rabbinic wisdom that will help you keep your resolutions and help you have a better new…
12/26/14 Grif.Net – After-Christmas Music
This is a repeat Grif.Net, but know many feel burned-out from traditional music and need some songs for the way you feel. No matter WHAT syndrome you or your friends suffer from, here are some songs that might fit. Do you feel . . Narcissistic? Hark the Herald Angles Sing…
12/25/14 Christmas Grif.Net – The True Story
After 12 days of Puns and really bad Christmas humor, we felt today called for the REAL CHRISTMAS STORY from the Gospel of Luke. “And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (This taxing…
12/24/15 Grif.Net – 12th Pun of Christmas
A fancy restaurant was preparing brunch for Christmas. The Eggs Benedict looked scrumptious, but there was no bright shiny platter large enough on which to properly display them for the buffet. An ingenious kitchen staff member had an idea and quickly ran outside, returning with a gleaming old hubcap off…
12/23/14 Grif.Net – 11th Pun of Christmas
It was Christmas Eve and a burglar broke into the home of a prominent local lawyer. He took the lawyer’s Christmas gifts from under the tree, while leaving the packages for the wife and children untouched. As he was leaving the house, he was apprehended by an alert policeman. He…
12/22/14 Grif.Net – 10th Pun of Christmas
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were having one of their little father-and-son chats with light-sabers drawn and sparks flying. Vader pinned Luke against a bulkhead and glared into his face, “I know what you’re getting for Christmas, Luke,” he said. “Oh, yes, I know!” Luke fought himself free and jumped…
12/20/14 Weekend Grif.Net – Patiently Waiting for Christmas
For my sisters and me at Christmas, the only thing worse than having to go to bed on Christmas Eve was waking up Christmas morning about four o’clock and knowing we could NOT wake our parents that early. Dad and Mom made clear any wake-up call before seven would not…
12/19/15 Grif.Net – 9th Pun of Christmas
On a winter night in Moscow, a Russian spy named Rudolph came in from the storm, joining an American couple for dinner. After complaining that it had stopped snowing and now was raining, his friend’s wife pointed out the window and said it seemed like it was sleet, neither snow…