More than anything, my old friend JJ wanted to be a cowpoke. Taking pity on him while he visited me in Wyoming, I took him to a rancher friend of mine and asked him to show JJ around. JJ was excited. The old rancher took him to the corral and…
06/17/10 Grif.Net – Odd Thoughts
A lot of money in Vegas is tainted – taint yours and taint mine either. ~~ There’s the touching story of the young man who said to his girlfriend, “I bet you wouldn’t marry me.” The story goes that she not only called his bet but she raised him five!…
06/16/10 Grif.Net – Cowboy’s Bible
The devout cowboy in Wyoming lost his favorite Bible while he was mending fences out on the range. Three weeks later, a cow walked up to him carrying the Bible in its mouth. The cowboy couldn’t believe his eyes. He took the precious book out of the cow’s mouth, raised…
06/15/10 Grif.Net – What Happens in Vegas
TRUE/FALSE QUIZ ABOUT LAS VEGAS 1 Las Vegas means “the meadows” in Spanish. 2 More that half of Nevada’s 200,000+ slot machines are located here. 3 The first neon sign appeared in Las Vegas in 1954. 4 The average annual temperature in Las Vegas is 66 degrees (it will be…
06/14/10 Grif.Net – Famous? Quotations
Mariah Carey – “Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.” Matt Lauer (NBC Today Show) – “Researchers have discovered…
06/12/10 Weekend Grif.Net – Jail or Nursing Home
Grandma K sent me this insightful idea: “Let’s put the seniors in jail and the criminals in a nursing home”. This way the seniors would have access to showers, hobbies, and walks. They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc. and they’d receive money instead of…
06/11/10 Grif.Net – Dental Emergency
A woman and her husband interrupted their vacation to go to the dentist. “I want a tooth pulled and I don’t want Novocain because I’m in a big hurry,” the woman said. “Just extract the tooth as quickly as possible and we’ll be on our way.” The dentist was quite…
06/10/10 Grif.Net – Loan
A cowboy from Wyoming walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Paris for an international rodeo for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not a depositor of the…
06/09/10 Grif.Net – Honest Answers
[Bob J forwarded this from a 6th grade boy, and I’m STILL laughing] Our teacher asked us what our favorite animal was, and I said, “Fried chicken.” She said I wasn’t funny, but she couldn’t have been right, everyone else in the class laughed. My parents told me to always…
06/08/10 Grif.Net – Customer Service Policy
Went into a store and by the cash register they had “Our Customer Service Policy” posted. They thought I was crazy when I copied this down to add to the grif.net: We offer service three ways: Good Quick Cheap You can have any TWO of the THREE: If you want…
06/07/10 Grif.Net – At the Dentist
Linda was with her mother while her older sister was being examined by a dentist. Linda kept herself busy playing with toys in the waiting room until she noticed that her Mom was resting, with her eyes closed. Linda marched up to her mother, looked her straight in the face…
06/05/10 Weekend Grif.Net – Solidarity with Arizona
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed,…
06/04/10 Grif.Net – Advice from a Caddie
I’m not saying I’m a great golfer, but yesterday after a round I commented, “I’d move heaven and earth to be able to break 100 on this course.” “Try heaven,” my caddie advised.. “You’ve already moved most of the earth.” ~~ Dr Bob Griffin [email protected] www.grif.net “Jesus Knows Me, This…