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This riddle is simple to test your adding skills. It must be done IN YOUR HEAD ONLY and NOT using paper and pen. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What…

A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her…

A Parable for Teachers who are anxiously looking for Spring Break. The story is fictional but gives a tongue-in-cheek look at how things might have been in Rabbi Jesus’ class: Then Jesus took his disciples up the mountain and, gathering them around him, he taught them, saying: Blessed are the…

[I am having fun coming up with odd names for quartets, based on word-play and occupation. May be a grif.net quiz in a few years, but still in the “lame” condition. So sharing it and wide open to other names from YOU. Must have “four” in the title. And sort…

[Grif.Net Blog readers continue to chime in on ‘stuff’ at work that truly make you question the need for more chlorine in the gene pool] From page 16 of the HP “Environmental, Health & Safety Handbook for Employees” “Blink your eyelids periodically to lubricate your eyes.” ~~ I live in…

Bob told me about a man who was sitting on the sofa watching TV when he heard his wife’s voice from the kitchen. “What would you like for dinner, Love? Chicken, beef or tuna?” He said, “Thank you, dear. I’ll have chicken.” “Shut up”, she replied. “You’re having leftovers. I…

March 4th is the birthday of General Pierre Frontage, famous French military strategist who, with Lafayette, helped the American Patriots fight the British in the Revolutionary War. I had never even heard of him! But then I realized we have many roads today named in his honor. ~~ Dr Bob…

[This email is brought to you by Apple’s latest product, the iPun.] At a recent concert: “Please remain in your seat until the playin’ has come to a complete stop.” A gossip is someone with a sense of rumor. Marriage is the mourning after the knot before. After hearing the…

‘Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.’ These courageous words from the mouth of Bishop Latimer have reverberated down the centuries, a clarion call of the…

[Yesterday’s Grif.Net Blog about the worker at the mini-mart brought a busload of responses. Here are a couple of examples.] My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the individual behind the counter for “minimal lettuce.” He said. “I’m sorry, but we only have…

Yesterday I needed gas so zipped to a local convenience store. As I pumped I noticed a sign in the window advertising their “store brand” of soda pop on sale: “XX Cola 49 cents. Two for a dollar.” What a deal! I thought. So I went in to pay for…

MID-WEEK QUIZ TIME AGAIN! And this time I am making it easy-peasy so all can ‘feel the love’. I will give a list of fictional men and your task is to match them with their ‘true love’. Example: Tom Sawyer + ______________ (answer: Becky Thatcher) ____________ 1. Westley ____________ 2.…

The Pope met with his Cardinals to discuss a proposal from Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel. “Your Holiness “, said one of his Cardinals, “Mr. Netanyahu wants to challenge you to a game of golf to show the friendship and ecumenical spirit shared by the Jewish and Catholic faiths.”…