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1. How does a moose begin a letter to his cousin? 2. What is a complete opening in the ground? 3. What is a smelly chicken? 4. What do you call a less expensive bird? 5. Who is married to Uncle Beetle? 6. What does a broken window feel? 7.…

[This was written by a sports anchor from Fox 6 in Milwaukee weeks BEFORE winning the NFC Championship. It doesn’t get any better than this.] This job affords me some incredible opportunities. Being a member of the FOX 6 Sports team means I’ve been able to witness and report on…

Charley, a new retiree greeter at Wal-Mart, just couldn’t seem to get to work on time. Every day he was 5, 10, 15 minutes late. But he was a good worker, really tidy, clean-shaven, sharp minded and a real credit to the company and obviously demonstrating their “Older Person Friendly”…

[Carol shared her prayer with us. Short and to the point.] Dear God, All I ask for in 2011 is a big, fat bank account and a slim body. And please don’t mix these up like you did last year. Amen. ~~ Dr Bob Griffin [email protected] www.grif.net “Jesus Knows Me,…

A college professor had the mysterious habit of removing a tennis ball from his jacket pocket as he walked into the lecture hall each morning. He would set it on the corner of the podium. After giving the lecture for the day, he would once again pick up the tennis…

[BJ forward this candid look at growing older in a technologically-young world] When I bought my Blackberry I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress…

A young woman was in love with two men and could not decide which of them to marry. Finally she went to a marriage counselor. When asked to describe her two loves, she mentioned that one was a great poet and the other a renowned crêpe chef. “Oh,” said the…

Read on a blog about America’s deer hunters and came to a startling conclusion. The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over 600,000 hunters expending millions of rounds of high-powered ordinance. Allow me to restate that number. Over…

On midnight on New Year’s Eve, thousands of birds fell dead right out of the sky in Arkansas and Louisiana. Many asked “Where was the President in this national crisis?” Vacationing in Hawaii. But the real question? Where were Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin? Inquiring minds want to know. Newsflash:…

“I have the theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?” “My weight problem is hereditary. It was passed on from my mouth to my stomach.” “The problem with square meals is that they make you round.” “In…

I just got off the phone with a friend in North Dakota. She said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping below zero and the north wind is increasing. Her husband has done nothing but look through…

[Some old, some new but time to recycle the smiles. Where did the “chicken cross the road” originate? The first known appearance in print occurred in 1847 in ‘The Knickerbocker’, a New York monthly magazine: “There are ‘quips and quillets’ which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such…

Back in the 70’s when I was a boy, my mother wore a mood ring. When she was in a good mood it turned blue. In a bad mood, it left a big red mark on my forehead. Don’t know about you, but I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.…