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Sign in a Whiting, Indiana store front window: “WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH 1000 AL QAEDA TERRORISTS THAN WITH ONE SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER!” This sign was prominently displayed in the window and you would think such an Inflammatory statement would bring immediate outrage. However, we are a society which…

Barbara Mandrell relates that when she had her first child (son Nathan) that she always sang three songs to him. “Jesus Loves Me”, “This is the Day that the Lord hath Made” and “Jesus Loves the Little Children”. She wondered which of these three would be the first song he…

After a few of the usual Sunday evening hymns, the church’s pastor once again slowly stood up, walked over to the pulpit, and gave a very brief introduction of his childhood friend. With that, an elderly man stepped up to the pulpit to speak, “A father, his son, and a…

Today is our anniversary. We’ve been happily married 3 years now. (We’ve been married 39 years, but I said “happily”.) Here are a couple old-couple jokes . . . I remember the time I tried to help by doing my own laundry. I threw my favorite sweat-shirt in the washer,…

A minister, wearing a “clergy collar”, visited the church day care. The little children were quite concerned at this odd looking outfit. One little girl asked if he had a “boo-boo” on his neck and asked him how he got hurt. The pastor smiled and took the white plastic collar…

We got a giant floor puzzle of the US states and inserts for each capital. My oldest grandson put the puzzle together in record time, then proceeded to get all the cities correctly, too, bragging on how easy it was. (He is very smart) I said that when I was…

[My whining about Casper’s odd cold/wet weather and the jokes about Seattle brought a response from Ben in the Tempe/Phoenix area] IT’S SO HOT in Arizona in the summer that . . . We go to McDonalds to get coffee and pour it on our laps – just to cool…

[Regarding “Swine Flu.” – from Friday’s Grif.Net, Gene asks “If a person dies from the Swine Flu, does he go to “Hog Heaven?” His answer – “Only if he is riding a Harley”.] Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica- where do…

Let the minister have a place in your heart. Mention his name at your family altar, and in your prayer closet. You expect him to come before you day after day, to teach you the things of the kingdom, and exhort and stir up your pure minds by way of…

What is the difference between Bird Flu and Swine Flu? For bird flu you need tweetment and for swine flu you need oinkment. [Thanks grammak for the smile] ~~ Dr Bob Griffin “Jesus knows me, this I love”

[Since March 20th we’ve have 5 heavy snow storms and uncounted rain storms. Very unusual for arid Casper. Last Sunday (June 7) was 37F and half inch of rain. A friend in Seattle wrote me and said to QUIT WHINING about the little bit of precipitation we get in Wyoming.…

Everybody knows about the Fujita Scale which measures the power of tornados. But nobody really knows what all those types of twisters do to COWS. So here is the MOOJITA Scale… M0 Tornado – Cows in an open field are spun around parallel to the wind flow and become mildly…

The 2009 graduate with a Science degree asks, “Why does it work?” The 2009 graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does it work?” The 2009 graduate with a Business degree asks, “How much will it cost?” The 2009 graduate with an Economics degree asks, “How can we market it?”…