Three squaws were each preparing for the birth of their first child. The first squaw placed a large bear hide by a river, the second squaw placed an elk hide by a tree by a river, and the third squaw placed a hippopotamus hide by a path, near the river…
02/23/09 Grif.Net – Some of Life’s Little Questions
If a lawyer and your mother-in-law were drowning, and you could only save one of them, would you go watch television or just have a Coke? If a tree falls in a forest, and it hits a mime, will he make a sound? If a pig loses its voice, is…
02/21/09 Weekend Grif.Net – Origin of the Species Anniversary
Sometime this year many evolutionists will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of the Species.” His theories proclaim as fact that higher forms of life gradually developed over millions of years. These forms supposedly got their start
02/20/09 Grif.Net – About the American Hyphen Society
The American Hyphen Society is a community-based, not-for-profit, grass-roots consciousness-raising/education-research alliance that seeks to help effectuate the across-the-board self-empowerment of wide-ranging culture-, nationality-, ethnicity-, creed-, gender-, and sexual-orientation defined identity groups by excising all multiculturally-less-than-sensitive terminology from the English language, and replacing it with counter-hegemonic, cruelty-, gender-, bias-, and, if…
02/19/09 Grif.Net – Wisdom from my Fortune Cookie
Man who run in front of car get tired. Man who run behind car get exhausted. By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it. Lady with one chopstick at Chinese restaurant go hungry. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. I always wanted to be somebody.…
02/18/09 Grif.Net – Recipes
Ingredients: 1 large Roast of beef, 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done. (Gracie Allen) ~~ “When I read about the evils of too much cholesterol, eating eggs, red meat, or even…
02/17/09 Grif.Net – 8
Thought a little quiz would be in order for the short work-week. Every answer will have “8” in it 1. Bill Lear (inventor of the jet that bears his name) came up with this way to listen to music. 2. Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back while holding…
02/16/09 Grif.Net – President’s Day Bill of Rights
[Back in the 50’s when I was in school, banks and schools were closed on both Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, and George Washington’s birthday, February 22. When Congress decided to make holidays into long weekends, and not to slight the other president, the third Monday of February was the…
02/14/09 Valentine Grif.Net – Happy Couples
My loving mother-in-law [wife made me type this] shared a “couples quiz” that might be fun for this Valentine’s Day. Simple premise: We give one half of a famous “couple” and you give the rest! (A couple of couples are “tricky” so watch out) Ex: Adam and ?? (Eve) 1.…
02/13/09 Grif.Net – Friday the 13th, say What?
Those who purport to know about these things (from a magazine called ‘Mental Floss’), inform us that Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden on a Friday, Noah’s flood started on a Friday, and Christ was crucified on a Friday. In early America, it was noted that…
02/12/09 Grif.Net – About the Economy
Overheard . . . “I did not vote for Obama but he is remarkable.
02/11/09 Grif.Net – House in Heaven
After many years, former Denver Bronco Coach Mike Shanahan died and entered the Pearly Gates. God takes him on tour. He shows Mr. Shanahan a little two-room cottage with a faded Denver Broncos banner hanging from the front porch. “This is your house, coach. Most people don’t get their own…
02/10/09 Grif.Net – Pun o’the Month
One doctor always stopped at a local pub after work for a hazelnut daiquiri = – a special drink created just for him. One day, the bartender ran out of = hazelnut flavor so he substituted hickory nuts = instead. The doctor took one sip of the drink and exclaimed,…