Dogs come when you call them. Cats take a message and get back to you when they are good and ready. Dogs will give you unconditional love forever. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you’ve ever made since the day you were born. Dogs will let you give…
08/04/11 Grif.Net – Walked Out on the Sermon
An embarrassed woman approached the pastor after the service. “I’m awfully sorry about my husband walking out like that. I do hope you won’t take it as a reflection of your beautiful sermon?” “No, not at all” replied the gracious preacher. “I’m sure all God’s creatures have their reasons.” “Oh…
08/03/11 Grif.Net – Did you hear the one about . . .
Did you hear the one about . . . . . the fellow who was so short that when it rains he’s the last one to know? . . the fugitive who held hostage a busload of Japanese tourists? The police have 5,000 pictures of him. . . the gal…
08/02/11 Grif.Net – It’s So Hot
It’s so hot today.. the nation is under a “heat dome” but will have plenty of shade under our 14 trillion dollar debt ceiling that it makes me want to take off my skin and sit in my bones ice pops are melting in the freezer that I actually felt…
08/01/11 Grif.Net – Couple of Bucks for Dinner
[A fellow passed this on as true. I have my doubts.] I was walking alone without my husband downtown, and was asked by a very dirty and disheveled homeless gal for money. The gal said she needed a ‘couple of dollars for dinner’. I took out my wallet, got out…
07/30/11 Weekend Grif.Net – Most Important Question
Missionary Milton Cunningham was flying on a plane from Atlanta to Dallas. He happened to have the middle of the three seats on one side of the aisle. To his right, sitting next to the window, was a young girl who had Down’s syndrome. She began asking him very-simple-but-almost-offensive questions.…
07/29/11 Grif.Net – Dry Summer
(All have been checked out and sworn to be true) How DRY is it this summer? A friend in Lubbock said he’d killed a mosquito that was carrying a canteen. A man in Tulsa said the Tyson chicken farmers were giving the chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying…
07/28/11 Grif.Net – Diary Entries
WIFE’S DIARY: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late,…
07/27/11 Grif.Net – Chocolate Rabbits
It’s an age old question that my granddaughter posed to me. She asked, “Do you know how you can tell if your chocolate Easter bunny is a boy bunny or a girl bunny?” Quietly and with a modicum of fear I replied, “I don’t know honey. How?” Matter-of-factly she stated:…
07/26/11 Grif.Net -Good Wife
This guy was sitting at home alone when he heard a knock on the front door. There were two sheriff’s deputies there, so he asked if there was a problem. One of the deputies asks if he was married, and if so, could he see a picture of his wife.…
07/25/11 Grif.Net – Sewing Lesson
From my wife I heard this story: I was thrilled to get an older model Elna sewing machine to set up at home to teach my granddaughter some basic sewing while she was here for a few weeks. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread…
07/23/11 Weekend Grif.Net – My Wishes for You
From the book “People Who Live At The End of Dirt Roads” by Lee Pitts We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. I’d really like for them to know about hand-me down clothes and homemade…
07/22/11 Grif.Net – Grandpa is like God
My granddaughter spent the last two weeks with me. One day she mentioned that she thought Grandpa was a lot like God. Overhearing this, I mentally polished my halo while I asked, “How are we alike?” She replied, “You’re both really, really old.” ~~ Dr Bob Griffin [email protected] www.grif.net “Jesus…