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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.

Fashion

Many of us [those over 40, WAY over 40, or hovering near 40] are quite confused about how we should present ourselves. We are unsure about the kind of image we are projecting and whether or not we are correct as we try to conform to current fashions. Despite what you may have seen, the […]

Bono’s clapping

Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, is famous throughout the Entertainment industry for being more than just a little self-righteous. At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow he asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in […]

Why did the chicken cross the road?

DR. PHIL : The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on ‘THIS’ side of the road before it goes after the problem on the ‘OTHER SIDE’ of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by […]

George Carlin’s Views on Aging

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions. ‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and […]

Irish Love Story

An elderly man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favourite scones wafting up the stairs. He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed. Leaning on the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and with even […]

Monkeys

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for  £10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at  £10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers […]

Mothers

A little boy walked up to the librarian to check out a book entitled “COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR MOTHERS.” When the librarian asked him if it was for his mother, he answered ‘no.’ “Then why are you checking it out?” “Because,” said the little boy confidently, “I just started collecting moths last month!”

Up!

Word Play: One two-letter English word has a ridiculous number of meanings. It’s easy to understand up, meaning higher, but why do we wake up every morning? Why do meeting topics come up? Why do we speak up? Why are officers up for election? Why is it up to the secretary to write up a […]

Telephone Call to God

An American Decided to write a book about famous cathedrals around the world. So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to Orlando, thinking that he would start by working his way across the USA from South to North. On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed […]

Why God Made Moms

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions: Why did God make mothers? 1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is. 2. Mostly to clean the house. 3. To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? 1. He used dirt, […]