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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.

Smart accountant

A leading accountant used to open his drawer every morning before starting work. On retirement they looked in the drawer and pasted to the bottom was a piece of paper that said: Debit is on the right hand side credit is on the left.

Actual call centre conversations !!!!!

Customer: ‘I’ve been ringing 0800 2100 for two days and can’t get through to enquiries, can you help?’. Operator: ‘Where did you get that number from, sir?’. Customer: ‘It was on the door to the Travel Centre’. Operator: ‘Sir, they are our opening hours’. ———————————————————— Samsung Electronics Caller: ‘Can you give me the telephone number […]

Proselytization Methods

A Catholic priest, a Baptist preacher, and a rabbi all served as chaplains to the students of Northern Michigan University in Marquette . They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talk shop. One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn’t really all that hard. A […]

Golf stories

A gushy reporter told Phil Michelson, “You are spectacular, your name is synonymous with the game of golf. You really know your way around the course. What’s your secret?” Michelson replied, “The holes are numbered.” —————————– A young man and a priest are playing together. At a short par-3 the priest asks, “What are you […]

One-word Riddle

What if this was the only question on the exam to pass high school English and earn your diploma. Would you graduate? Okay you brainiacs, here is a brain teaser for you. What nine letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one by one? […]

Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story

Genesis Revisited A Scientific Creation Story By Michael Shermer In the beginning—specifically on October 23, 4004 B.C., at noon—out of quantum foam fluctuation God created the Big Bang, followed by cosmological inflation and an expanding universe. And darkness was upon the face of the deep, so He commanded hydrogen atoms (which He created from Quarks) […]

Teacher’s Woes

A kindergarten teacher was helping one of the children put on his cowboy boots. He’d asked for help and she could see why. Even with her pulling and him pushing, the boots didn’t want to go on, and she had worked up a sweat by the time they eventually got them on. She almost cried […]

Traffic camera

A man was driving when a traffic camera flashed. He thought his picture was taken for exceeding the speed limit, even though he knew he was not speeding. Just to be sure, he went around the block and passed the same spot, driving even more slowly, but again the camera flashed. He thought this was […]

Deaf Book-keeper

A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of ten million bucks. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place. It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would not hear anything that he might have to testify about in court. When the Godfather […]

Gotta Love Little Boys

Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and proceeded to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asked the older boy, ‘Son, how old are you?’ ‘Eight’, the boy replied. The man continued, ‘Do you know what these are used for?’ The boy replied, ‘Not exactly, […]