Midweek Quiz Time! Each statement contains the initials of words + numbers of well-known phrases. You task? Try to discover the meaning of the clues. I found these are REALLY hard for my brain. Example: 12 D of C = 12 Days of Christmas ______________________ 1. 1001 A N ______________________…
02/10/14 Grif.Net – Top Ten Complaints of Women in the Bible
10. Eve to Adam: “You never take me anywhere different to eat, and you know I’ve got nothing to wear!” 9. Sarah to Abraham: “Maybe if you stopped treating me like your sister, we could start a family!” 8. Elizabeth to John the Baptist: “I cook you a nice meal…
02/10/14 Grif.Net – Had William Shakespeare written the Hokey-Pokey
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within Then soon upon a backward journey lithe. Anon, once more the gesture, then begin; Command sinistral pedestal to writhe. Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke. A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl. To spin! A wilde release from heaven’s yoke. Blessed dervish!…
02/08/14 Weekend Grif.Net – Ten Reasons Why I Never Wash
1. I was forced to wash as a child. 2. People who wash are hypocrites — They think they’re cleaner than others. 3. There are so many kinds of soap, I could never decide which was right. 4. I used to wash, but it got boring. 5. I wash only…
02/07/14 Grif.Net – When I was Little
A grandmother was telling her granddaughter what her own childhood was like: *I used to skate outside on a pond. *I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. *I loved to ride our pony. *I picked wild raspberries with my mom…
02/06/14 Grif.Net – Too Fundamental
I am PROUD of being theologically “fundamental”, but sometimes have to poke fun at my own foibles (and especially at the lunatic fringe that actually believe some of this stuff and stolen the word “fundamentalist”). You MAY BE a “fundamentalists” if . . . You pronounce “sin” with two syllables.…
02/05/14 Grif.Net – Lady in Case Quiz
[Midweek Quiz where we share MASCULINE words and you come up with their FEMININE counterparts. Some easy; some not. Do NOT use Google.] Example: Groom is masculine; correct feminine counter would be “Bride” ______________ 1. Bachelor ______________ 2. King ______________ 3. Drake ______________ 4. Lord ______________ 5. Master ______________ 6.…
02/04/14 Grif.Net – Food Spoilage Chart
[Here is help for you to know what to pitch and what to save] 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 pecking its way out of the shell, the egg…
02/03/14 Grif.Net – Beginning of Another Month
[Twist on our monthly bad puns – this are pun-ishing definitions] Crick: The sound that a Japanese camera makes. Khakis: What you need to start the car in Boston. Alarms: What an octopus is. Dockyard: A physician’s garden. Oboe: An English tramp. Propaganda: A gentlemanly goose. Toboggan: Why we go…
02/01/14 Weekend Grif.Net – Second Mile
A snowstorm in the South is about as rare as a glass of unsweetened tea at a church supper. Folks around Birmingham, Ala. weren’t all that worried though. The storm was only supposed to ‘dust’ the city – not even enough powder for a Southern snowman. So when the first…
01/30/14 Grif.Net – Bible-Based Bumper Stickers
Jonah: SAVE THE WHALES Uriah: TAKE A HITTITE TO LUNCH Israelites: HONK IF YOU LOVE MOSES Cain: CELEBRATE NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD WEEK Lot: IF YOU CAN SEE SODOM, YOU’RE TOO CLOSE Elijah: MY OTHER CHARIOT ROLLS Joshua: JERICHO MUST GO Goliath: VOTE TO BAN SLINGSHOTS Canaanites: VOTE NO ON THE SECOND…
01/29/14 Grif.Net – Inventive Quiz
Midweek Quiz on “who” invented each of the following. Give yourself bonus points if you also know the first name. 1. ____________ = Phonograph 2. ____________ = Safety Razor 3. ____________ = Telephone 4. ____________ = Law of Heredity 5. ____________ = Revolver 6. ____________ = Railway Sleeping Car 7.…
01/28/14 Grif.Net – Revising our Worship Service
We live in a technological age so am thinking of revising our Sunday worship. It would go like this: WELCOME: “Praise the Lord!” “Hallelujah!” HYMN: “Download YouTube iTunes songs from the OurChurch.Com channel to be listened to at your leisure during the week c-l-i-c-k-s…… SERMON: “Will everyone please turn on…