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[What a way to start out April with three days of really bad puns and word-plays. But that’s it. Maybe. April 15th is coming! Always a joke!] Scientists have announced that we have made contact with an alien race whose planet is entirely covered by one gigantic shopping center. The…

He made money sending thousands of junk emails to people, but one day he made a mistake and sent a whole load of them to a famous Hollywood actress. She was so angry that she had him beaten up, and that’s how he came to be known as The Star…

Here are some feeble attempts at puns for a new month. No foolin’. “Ever since my friend had all the digits amputated from his feet, I find him very annoying. I think I might be lack-toes intolerant.” “My friend Max hates going up steep hills. He’s always been a bit…

Good News: You baptized seven people today in the river. Bad News: You lost two of them in the swift current. Good News: The Women’s Guild voted to send you a get-well card. Bad News: The vote passed by 31-30. Good News: The Elder Board accepted your job description the…

[Back snug at home after 2500+ travel. Visualize 6 grandkids all sitting around “Grandpa” and singing at the top of our lungs “Grandma’s Feather Bed” and you can understand the past 10 days! But loved every minute!] Here are some jokes t0 make the grandkids laugh while I’m gone .…

I have to admit it. My liberal friends were right. They told me if I voted for McCain, the nation’s Hope

According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated, “Wash. Biol. Surv.” The following letter from an Arkansas camper…

While driving along the back roads of a small town in Wyoming, two truckers from Alabama came to an railroad overpass with a sign that read CLEARANCE 11’3″. They got out and measured their rig, which was 12’4″. “What do you think?” one asked the other. The driver looked around…

[This is a “rerun” from 13 years ago when I was teaching college full time. I was reminded of it when I was playing with grandkids and mentioned a “happy fizzies party”. Needless to say, that anachronism was as out of place as Pinkie Lee, Howdy Doody, or even Archie…

[Yesterday’s entire “special” paragraph was missing the most common letter in the English alphabet – E. In honor of me watching Wall-E 4 times with my grandkids . . and going crazy!!] Two robins were sitting in a tree. “I’m really hungry”, said the first one. “Me, too,” said the…

This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study…

A woman was walking home one winter eve and came upon a snake that was freezing to death. The snake begged her to take him into her home and let him warm up. She told the snake that she could not do this as he was a snake and would…

In 1875, a Danish couple converted to become Mormons and moved to Cache Valley, Utah. They set up a farm in Rural Providence, Utah, and were self-sufficient for a couple of years. By the third year, the husband decided to take a second wife, as Mormons of the time did.…