Rowland Croucher
A few more corny jokes :-)
For Lexophiles: A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired. A will is a dead giveaway. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. A backward poet writes inverse. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. The guy who fell […]
Remembering CS Lewis, Aldous Huxley and…oh yeah, JFK
If you’re after a good trivia question for upcoming Christmas BBQs, try this one: Which two other famous people died on the same day as JFK, 22 November 1963? The answers are CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley. Most readers will be well aware of CS Lewis, but not as many will be aware of Huxley. The latter […]
Smile! (The first one’s clever but a bit naughty :-)
Trevor the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called ‘pullets’ and eight or ten roosters, to fertilise the pullets’ eggs. Trevor kept records and any rooster that didn’t perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time so he […]
Homosexual sibling relationships: a question…
Received this email recently (some details changed to preserve anonymity):A wonderful collection of articles on your web-site, thank-you. I hope you don’t think I’m being too intrusive, but I feel I have a spiritual battle on my hands. I am a young adult male in a relationship with a male, but have not consummated the […]
Children must learn praise has to be earned
RITA PANAHI HERALD SUN NOVEMBER 04, 2013 We have a generation of bubble-wrapped children, extolled, indulged and rarely criticised. Source:Supplied DON’T tell your children that they can be whatever they want. For one thing it’s an outrageous lie; we are all limited by ability and opportunity or a lack of it. And rather than build the […]
Foul crimes, wilful blindness and evil men
Date November 14, 2013 Frank McGuire Despite the suffering of victims revealed by the sex abuse inquiry, some men of God still refuse to accept the damage they did. Illustration: John Spooner. Catholic Church backs compensation scheme Jewish care to investigate child sex abuse claims Betrayal of Trust reveals the cover-up that killed. The investigation report […]
State Sanctioned Prayer (on this issue too America leads the world :-(
by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Nov 11 2013 Alex Staroseltsev / Shutterstock Let us pray: ¢â‚¬Å“in the name of the one who came, and died, and rose again that we might have eternal life ¢â‚¬”Jesus Christ our Lord ¢â‚¬”Amen. ¢â‚¬ Thus Dr. Robert Jeffress, ¢â‚¬Å“pastor of the 11,000 member First Baptist in Dallas, Texas, and daily radio […]
UK arranged marriages: Kidnapping, rape and murder in the name of family honour
By Mary Gearin, Bronwen Reed and Greg Wilesmith for Foreign Correspondent “We have kidnappings, abductions, assaults, sexual offences. Anything that you can imagine could happen, does happen, in the name of honour,” says Nazir Afzal, Crown Prosecutor for the north-west of England. And murder – 10 to 12 cases a year. Yet as the hyper-active, smartly dressed […]
Smile (even if they’re corny)
Did you hear about the guy who lost his whole left side? He’s alright now! ======= A guy was in a cave, looking for treasure. He found an old lamp, rubbed it, and a genie came out. The genie said “I will grant you three wishes, but your ex-wife will get double.” […]
Liberals pick a fight over history wars again
Date November 7, 2013 Tony Taylor Political meddling with the history curriculum is vandalism that undermines democracy. Illustration: Andrew Dyson. I see a headline like this, “Report backs Rudd’s bias claim” (The Age, November 7) about News Corp’s political tendencies, it reminds me that Donald Rumsfeld was not so daft after all with his mantra […]
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