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Quick!

Green garden grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not just rattlesnakes. A couple in Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and during a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass […]

Interview Bloopers

Vice Presidents and personnel directors of the one hundred largest corporations were asked to describe their most unusual experience interviewing prospective employees. * A job applicant challenged the interviewer to an arm wrestle. * Interviewee wore a Walkman, explaining that she could listen to the interviewer and the music at the same time. * Candidate […]

Wire backup

One rainy evening, my husband, John, and I emerged from a restaurant only to find that he had locked the keys in the car. He insisted he could open the door with a wire coat hanger, so we went back to the restaurant to get one. There were none to be found. John then ran […]

Vice president

Tom was so excited about his promotion to Vice President of the company he worked for and kept bragging about it to his wife for weeks on end. Finally she couldn’t take it any longer, and told him, “Listen, it means nothing, they even have a vice president of peas at the grocery store!” “Really?” […]

Irrational fear

The Most Rev. R.C. Trench, who many years ago was Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, had a morbid fear of becoming paralyzed. One evening at a party, the lady he sat next to at dinner heard him muttering mournfully to himself, “It’s happened at last–total insensibility of the right limb.” “Your Grace,” said the lady, “it […]

Attitude

Do u know? If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Is equal to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 […]

Faithful Service Gift

A pastor had been at a church for 20 years. To show their appreciation for all his years of faithful service, the congregation decided to collect an offering and buy him a new car. So on the Sunday of his anniversary they had a special reception in honor of the pastor and his wife. Lots […]

Will She Say Yes?

An extremely wealthy 65-year-old man falls in love with a young woman in her twenties and is contemplating a proposal. “Do you think she’d marry me if I tell her I’m 45?” he asked a friend. “Your chances are better,” said the friend, “if you tell her you’re 90.”

Blood Race

During the time I was a first lieutenant at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina, the junior officers challenged the senior officers to see who would donate the most blood. After trying several times to locate a vein in my left arm, the technician applied a Band-Aid, and then inserted a needle into […]

Sponge Mistake

In the doctors office two patients are talking. “You know, I had an appendectomy last month and the doctor left a sponge in me by mistake.” “A sponge!” exclaims the other. “And do you feel much pain” “No pain at all,” says the first, “but do I get thirsty!”