Rowland Croucher
Ralph and Edna
Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Ralph out. […]
Well-known Proverbs
A 1st grade school teacher presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. While reading, keep in mind that these are first-graders, 6-year-olds, because the last one is a classic! 1. Don’t change horses until they stop running. […]
Voted Best Scottish Short Joke
A bloke walks into a Glasgow library and says to the prim librarian, “Excuse me Miss, dey ye hiv ony books on suicide?” To which she stops doing her tasks, looks at him over the top of her glasses and says, “Off wi’ ye, ye’ll no bring it back!”
Mental Hospital
One day, in a mental hospital the nurse found Ralph sitting on a lawn chair reading. He was completely nude except for a necktie. “Why aren’t you dressed?” the nurse asked. Ralph replied, “No need. Nobody comes to visit me.” “But why the necktie?” she asked and Ralph shrugged. “You never know. Someone might drop […]
Clever Advertising
Have you noticed how retailers are getting a little more imaginative with their advertising material etc.? I suppose the hairdressers started it off… and this is NOT an excuse for anybody to recycle yet again all those shop names like “Curl Up and Dye”, we have seen those so many times. Last week it was […]
Scottish Jokes
‘A Glaswegian stops before a graveyard in a Gorbals cemetery, and notices a carved tombstone declaring, “Here lies a lawyer and an honest man…” “Ach, who’d ever think…” he murmered, “there’d be enough room fer two men in that one wee grave…”‘ ‘Did ye hear about the Scotsman who married a girl born on February […]
Saudi Christian Blogger Arrested
Subj: Saudi Arabia: Christian Blogger Arrested ——————————————————— SAUDI CHRISTIANITY AND THE CULTURE OF NO LIBERTY IN THE LAND OF NO DIFFERENCE. ——————————————————— The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that on 13 January 2009, Saudi police arrested Hamoud Bin Saleh and blocked access to his blog — “Masihi Saudi – http://christforsaudi.blogspot.com ” — […]
In Defense of Death
By DAVID BROOKS Published: January 12, 2009 William D. Eddy was an Episcopal minister in Tarrytown, N.Y., and an admirer of the writer and theologian Richard John Neuhaus. When Rev. Eddy grew gravely ill about 20 years ago, I asked Neuhaus to write him a letter of comfort. I was shocked when I read it […]
Australian Prayer Network Newsletter
26/1/2009 * CRACKDOWN ON CHURCHES IN RANGOON * BRITISH ATHEISTS LAUNCH BUS ADVERTISEMENT SAYING ‘THERE IS PROBABLY NO GOD’. * WORSHIP AND PRAYER COMES BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION * CLAIRVOYANTS WELL OFF THE MARK * MASS ARRESTS OF CHRISTIANS IN ERITREA * THE VATICAN WILL NO LONGER AUTOMATICALLY ADOPT ITALIAN LAWS ———————————————– CRACKDOWN ON CHURCHES IN […]
Some Arab ‘friends’ need a lesson in democracy
* Irfan Yusuf * January 26, 2009 An Islamic heritage does not preclude having an elected government. IN MAY 2008, prominent conservative Edward Luttwak wrote in The New York Times that Barack Obama was an apostate in Muslim eyes, deserving of death under sharia law. I saw no evidence of this as I flicked between […]
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