My wife asked me to buy ORGANIC vegetables from the market. I went and looked around and couldn’t find any. So I grabbed an old, tired looking employee and said, “These vegetables are for my wife and have to be all natural. Have they been sprayed with any poisonous chemicals?”…
09/07/11 Grif.Net – Bigger in Texas?
There was a very self-sufficient blind man who did a lot of traveling alone. He was making his first trip to Houston and happened to be seated next to a Texan on the flight. The Texan spent a lot of time telling him how everything is bigger and better in…
09/06/11 Grif.Net – Role Models
As a child I saw Tarzan run around almost naked. I read about Dick chasing Jane all over the neighborhood Cinderella arrived home after midnight, missing some of her outfit. Pinocchio told lies. Aladdin was a thief. Donald Duck dressed sharp but never wore pants. Batman drove over 200 miles…
09/05/11 Labor Day Grif.Net – Random Thoughts on Labor
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend ~~ Father: Do you know, most people don’t have to work today, because it’s Labor Day. Son: If people are not working, shouldn’t we call today ‘No-Labor Day?’ ~~ Boss:…
09/03/11 Weekend Grif.Net – Freshmen in College in 2011
The ‘Mindset List for the Class of 2015’ is off the press. Beloit College produces this annual reminder. This is just a short excerpt; we’d encourage you to go to their website and be enlightened as to how this new freshman class thinks. Andre the Giant, River Phoenix, Frank Zappa,…
09/02/11 Grif.Net – Doctor, Doctor
Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking I’m invisible. Who said that? ———- Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking I’m a goat. And how long has this been going on? Oh, ever since I was a kid. ———– Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking I’m a pair curtains. Pull yourself together! ———– Doctor, Doctor,…
09/01/11 Grif.Net – New Month, New Pun
Famous Indian chief ‘Shortcake’ died. His warriors were out hunting buffalo so his wife had to dispose of the body. So what happened? Squaw bury Shortcake. [contributed by a 10 year old who thinks the grif.net is really funny. So there.] ~~ Dr Bob Griffin [email protected] www.grif.net “Jesus Knows Me,…
08/31/11 Grif.Net – Messages Waiting at Home
[Here are some lines found after being gone from home a little too long] “Warning: Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear.” “Your Uncle died and left you over one hundred clocks. It’s up to you to wind up the estate.” “You said you’d take me to a fancy…
08/30/11 Grif.Net – Matching Collective Nouns
Your task – match the term for a “group” of each animal, bird, fish, etc with the category. Example: 0. School x. Fish 1. Pride 2. Murder 3. Exaltation 4. Parliament 5. Mob 6. Cluster 7. Cohort 8. Bed 9. Quiver 10. Business 11. Run 12. Congress a. Kangaroos b. Doves…
08/29/11 Grif.Net – Thoughts about my Computer
Is my mini-android computer a microchip off the old block? On a clear disk you can seek forever. Press any key… no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE! Who surfs the Internet and goes, ‘Choo, Choo’? Thomas the Search Engine. Real programs don’t eat cache. Back up my hard drive? How…
08/28/11 Special Grif.Net
Many of you know that today I was supposed to be leaving for Vietnam and Cambodia on a ministry trip with my daughter, guided by Evangelist Tim Lee (a decorated Vietnam vet who left both legs behind). Because of circumstances beyond our control, the trip had to be postponed until…
08/27/11 Weekend Grif.Net – Visiting an Elementary School
On his vacation with the rich and famous, the President went to an elementary school on the island to talk to the kids (and to get much needed positive PR). After his talk he offered question time. One little boy put up his hand and he is asked his name.…
08/26/11 Grif.Net – Good Grammar
Up at the college today and heard a professor lecturing the incoming freshman class on using correct English. “In English a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, however, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. But there is no language in the world where a…