Rowland Croucher
The absolute best Little Johnnie joke
Little Johnnie’s neighbour had a baby. Unfortunately, the baby was born without ears. When mother and new baby came home from the hospital, Johnnies’ family was invited over to see the baby. Before they left their house, Little Johnnie’s dad had a talk with him and explained that the baby had no ears. His dad also told him that if […]
LEXIPHILES (Double Meanings Of Words)
1. To write with a broken pencil is pointless. 2. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. 3. A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months. 4. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A. 5. The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground. 6. The batteries were […]
LOVING THE TWO HALVES OF LIFE (Richard Rohr)
The Second Half In order to arrive at the second half of life, one has to realize there is an incurable wound at the heart of everything. Much of the conflict from the age of twenty-five to fifty-five is just trying to figure this out and then to truly accept it. A Swiss theologian, Hans […]
Story of a Recovered Alcoholic…
A terrific story from my Facebook mate Bill Rossiter: My dad was an alcoholic. One time he was broke and hanging out for a drink. He saw an ad in the paper for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. He thought to himself that he should be able to scrounge a drink in amongst all those alcoholics, […]
Bishop Gene Robinson: In the Eye of the Storm (2008)
Bishop Gene Robinson is perhaps the third best-known Episcopal/Anglican bishop around the world (after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and Desmond Tutu): all because he ¢â‚¬â„¢s been ¢â‚¬“ reluctantly ¢â‚¬“ the ¢â‚¬ËœMartin Luther ¢â‚¬â„¢ of a new reformation in the church, advocating equality for glbt people. Wikipedia tells us that ¢â‚¬Ëœthe existence of homosexual bishops in […]
Pray for the World July 25, 2011
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER NEW BILL IN THE NETHERLANDS TO END MULTICULTURALISM SOME UNWELCOME RESULTS OF THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION INDONESIAN VOLCANO ERUPTS MORE ANSWERED PRAYER IN THE MEXICAN DRUG WAR TENSION MOUNTS AS HUNGER HITS THE NORTH KOREAN ARMY PRAYER ALERT FOR SUDAN GRASSROOTS REVIVAL TAKING PLACE IN INDIA IRANIAN GOVERNMENT CRACKS DOWN ON BELIEVERS […]
How to control the emotional impact of bad news on job performance
21/07/2011 Learning to cope with worries and difficult work issues is the key to success. But how do you stop worrying about a situation or a bad decision. Xiuping Li decided to investigate how a simple psychological technique could enhance our ability to manage negative emotions about an event or a decision that we regretted. […]
Caffeine in Stressful Situations Improves Performance for women but not for men!
24/07/2011 Most of us drink tea or coffee, (caffeine is the most widely consumed drug in the world) but if a meeting becomes stressful, does it help, or make things worse, if team members drink lots of caffeine? A study by Lindsay St. Claire and colleagues looked at men’s and women’s performance (memory tasks & […]
The Green Thing
In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.” The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did […]
Preventible diseases: Reinventing toilets no longer a pipedream
Kristi Heim July 23, 2011 A life-saving device. A PLUMBING fixture makes an unlikely hero. But the sanitation revolution that started in the 18th century with the introduction of the flush toilet and sewers has, says Frank Rijsberman, ”saved more lives than any innovation in the history of public health or medical science”. Now Rijsberman’s […]
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