[Enjoy down-home small-town restaurants without the fancy menus all laminated and cute. These are actual “phrases/quotations/jokes” found on menus at places in which I like to dine, though not all in my area.] Go ahead. Have dessert. It’s not like the rest of the meal was lo-cal. Our favorite food…
04/19/14 Weekend Grif.Net – Not My Book to Change
“When people say, ‘Why don’t you just kind of get on the right side of history?’ I said, ‘You’ve got to understand, this for me is not about the right side or the wrong side of history. This is the right side of the Bible, and unless God rewrites it,…
04/18/14 Grif.Net – New Trainee
A young fellow got a job as a trainee in a supermarket. On his first day at work, he came in early, eager to make a fresh beginning. The manager welcomed him with a warm smile and giving him a broom, said, “Your first job will be to sweep the…
04/17/14 Grif.Net – Too Much Time on FaceBook
Here are some warning signs that you may be spending too much time on Facebook or Twitter or texting online Tech Support calls “YOU” for queries. When an office colleague shares a joke and you say “LOL” out loud. You discover yourself trying to cock your head 90 degrees when…
04/16/14 Grif.Net – Not-So-Famous Sayings
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Love doesn’t make the world go ’round, but it makes the ride worthwhile. If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. What the…
04/15/14 Grif.Net – Not Sure about the New Guy
I am afraid I might have hired a “redneck” at our workplace. Need others to be the judge but so far I’ve noticed . . . 1. He calls his computer mouse a ‘critter’. 2. He has a gun-rack mounted on the CPU. 3. His password is ‘bubba’. 4. He…
04/14/14 Grif.Net – Signs in the Kitchen
“My Favorite Thing to Make for Dinner is Reservations” “I Only Have a Kitchen Because It Came with the House” “I Hate When I go to the Kitchen to Get some Food and Only Find Ingredients” “My Cooking is Fabulous. Even the Smoke Alarm is Cheering Me On” “A Balanced…
04/12/14 Weekend Grif.Net – Tax Time Promises
Top 10 Things You Won’t Have to Worry About on April 15th (tax day) ~ 10. The Bible will still have the answers. 9. Prayer will still work. 8. The Holy Spirit will still move. 7. God will still inhabit praise. 6. There will still be anointed preaching. 5. There…
04/11/14 Grif.Net – New Bumper Stickers
“HONK, IF YOU LOVE PEACE AND QUIET” “WE ARE STAYING TOGETHER FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CATS” “IF YOU CAN READ THIS, I CAN SLAM ON MY BRAKES AND SUE YOU” “DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK” “THIS VEHICLE PROTECTED BY ANTI-THEFT BUMPER STICKER” “I’M GONNA SURVIVE EVEN IF IT KILLS…
04/10/14 Grif.Net – Bed Bug Quiz
Reading an article by Orkin on Bed Bug infestations and their own research as to the “leading” (not sure that is the right category to “lead” in) US cities in the past year. I was surprised that SEVEN of the top ten (or worse ten) were in the Midwest and…
04/09/14 Grif.Net – Call Home
HUSBAND’S CALL: “Honey it’s me. I don’t want to alarm you but I was hit by a car as I was leaving work. Linda brought me to the hospital. They have checked me over and done some tests and some x-rays. The blow to my head was severe. Fortunately it…
04/08/14 Grif.Net – NASA and the Navajo
In 1966, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in full Lunar spacesuits.…
04/07/14 Grif.Net – What About This?
If chocolate comes from cocoa beans (grown on a tree), does that make chocolate a fruit, a nut, a vegetable or a salad? If a mosquito bites me, I want to be so filled with God that it flies away singing “There’s Power in the Blood”. If vegetarians are trying…