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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Christmas Game

If you don’t have enough to do or all your mince pies are in order, try this http://www.learn4good.com/games/action/sling_shot_santa.htm

Pennies

A young Scottish lad and lass were sitting on a low stone wall, holding hands, gazing out over the loch. For several minutes they sat silently, then finally the girl looked at the boy and said “A penny for your thoughts, Angus.” “Well, uh, I was thinkin’ perhaps it’s aboot time for a wee kiss.” […]

Peanuts

A tour bus driver drives with a bus full of seniors down a highway, when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady. She offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up. After approx.15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful of […]

And still another riddle

TODAYS RIDDLE: Do you know what these seven verbs have in common: bring, buy, catch, fight, seek, teach, and think ? [ answer is at the bottom ] ============================= A man from Poland goes to the optometrist who shows him a card with the letters: “C Z W X N Q S T A C […]

Another riddle

TODAYS RIDDLE: Two planes take off at the same exact moment. They are flying across the Atlantic. One leaves New York and is flying to Paris at 500 miles per hour. The other leaves Paris and is flying to New York at only 450 miles per hour ( because of a strong head wind ). […]

More ways of saying ‘not the brightest’

Would be out of his depth in a playground puddle. A vol-au-vent short of a buffet. A few bushes short of a shrubbery (see story below): ~~~ A man was caught breaking into a house in the Irish Republic after telling the owner who he was. The court heard how he placed a wheelie bin […]

Riddle

TODAYS RIDDLE What interesting property do these words have in common: body day how one place thing time what where? /\ x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x \/ Each forms a new word when appended to the word […]

Newspaper

I was commuting from the Borough of Queens to my job in Manhattan. I’d finished reading the morning paper and was saving it to bring to friends on the job. How do you save a newspaper on the subway? You sit on it. A new commuter came in, saw the newspaper under my rear end […]

The Original

I am reminded of the actor Jimmy Stewart, who was regularly mimicked due to his unique voice, and who thought it would be fun to enter such a contest. He did not win, and was told that he wasn’t too bad, but needed to go home and work on his impression a bit more…

Merry Christmas Australia!

From the Australian Bureau of Statistics… MERRY CHRISTMAS A little Christmas cheer for all from the Australian Bureau of Statistics *31 Australians have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in. *19 Australians have died in the last 3 years by eating Christmas decorations they believed were chocolate. […]