15+ years ago, Wichita pastor Joe Wright offered a prayer before the Kansas State Legislature in Topeka. When he finished, three members jumped to their feet and indignantly shouted, “He can’t talk like that!” One representative called the prayer “gross, divisive, sanctimonious, and overbearing.” Another called it “blasphemous and ignorant.”…
11/16/12 Grif.Net Blog – MORE Bagpipe Jokes
[And of course, we have even MORE Bagpipe jokes. BTW, these are classic “FlexiJokes” so you may interchange bagpipe with the instrument of your choice that you wish to deride. Drummer. Cello. Saxophone. All fair game!] Q. What’s the difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead…
11/15/12 Grif.Net Blog – More FlexiJokes
{Here are more jokes that allow you to change the subject/butt of the joke to suit the audience. Feel free to change the CAPITALIZED subject to suit your personal prejudices, political leaning, hair color, state/country of origin or profession.] Jack and his companions were in a hot air balloon which…
11/14/12 Grif.Net Blog – Bagpipe Jokes
[15+ years ago, Randy Miller sends this collection of bagpipe jokes for Grif.Net readers. They may be used with ANY INSTRUMENT (oboe, clarinet, cello) of your displeasure.] Q. How do you get two bagpipes to play a perfect unison? A. Shoot one. — Q. What’s the difference between a bagpipe…
11/13/12 Grif.Net Blog – FlexiJokes
[Many jokes allow you to change the subject/butt of the joke to suit the audience. Feel free to change the CAPITALIZED subject to suit your personal prejudices, political leaning, hair color, state/country of origin or profession. You’re welcome!] The Tooth Fairy, an Honest POLITICIAN and Davy Crockett were walking along…
11/12/12 Grif.Net Blog – Words to Live By Which, part 6
My wife was pulled over by a trooper who said she was weaving. She replied, “I was not. I was crocheting.” For a REAL sponge cake, BORROW all the ingredients. Never buy a pit-bull from a one armed man. I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done. I…
11/10-11/12 Weekend Grif.Net Blog – Reading Through the Bible
God bless our veterans this Armistice Day weekend. I read a story of a soldier who was severely injured in an explosion Iraq. His face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both hands. He was just a new Christian, and one of his greatest disappointments…
11/09/12 Grif.Net Blog – Cloned Sheep
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was slightly grey, It didn’t have a father, just some borrowed DNA. It sort of had a mother, though the ovum was on loan, It was not so much a lambkin, as a little lamby clone. And soon it had a fellow clone,…
11/08/12 Grif.Net Blog – Making it Clear
ON PUBLISHING: “Send in the details. Never mind the facts.” (Telegram from editor of New York World to his Washington correspondent) ON SPELLING: “This ain’t the way to spell my name.” (Baseball legend Yogi Berra when given a check saying “Pay to Bearer”) ON SUCCESS, EARLY SIGNS OF: “In the…
11/07/12 Grif.Net Blog – Most Overused Stolen Election-Day Jokes
Some jokes are written. Even if they are stolen by other people, it’s not hard to track them down and find the original source. Other jokes form in the ‘ether’. They are the jokes forwarded to you by your parents, tweeted by fake celebrity accounts, posted on the Grif.Net by…
11/06/12 Grif.Net Blog – Pavement Humor
A piece of country road walked into the cafe and declared to all its occupants: “I’m the hardest bit of asphalt in the whole area!” The waitress stopped in her tracks and everyone was silent. After a brief pause, all eyes drop, the waitress starts to clear off a table,…
11/05/12 Grif.Net Blog – Words to Live By Which, part 5
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers. I’m not just a gardener, I’m a Plant Manager. If idiots could fly, then the Grif.Net would be an airport. God did…
11/03/12 Weekend Grif.Net – God Makes No Mistakes
A king who did not believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in all circumstances would always say “My king, do not be discouraged, because everything God does is perfect. He makes no mistakes!” One day they went hunting and along the way a wild animal attacked…