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When my older brother was very young, he always walked up to the church altar with my mother when she took communion.On one occasion, he tugged at her arm and asked, "What does the priest say when he ... read more..

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A ragged individual stranded for several months on a small desert island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean one day noticed a bottle lying in the sand with a piece of paper in it. Rushing to the bottl... read more..

A heading to an article in the New Scientist magazine reads, 'dNA shows how different we are.? It went on to say, ?Humans and their closest relatives, chimpanzees, may be more different than geneticis... read more..

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A young woman decided to redecorate her bedroom. She wasn't sure how many rolls of wallpaper she would need, but she knew that her friend next door had recently done the same job and the two rooms wer... read more..

My Dad bought my Mom a piano for her birthday.  A few weeks later, I asked how she was doing with it."Oh," said My Dad, "I persuaded her to switch to a clarinet.""How come?" I asked."Well," he answere... read more..

In the early 1400's Spain controlled both sides of the narrowest part of the Strait of Gibraltar , where the two land masses of Africa and Europe almost meet. The two large and rocky land points on ei... read more..

Offending others by how you share the Good News of Jesus is not the same as their being offended by the Good News of Jesus.Listen Online: {audio}podcast/sm20060305.mp3{/audio}... read more..

The little girl was sitting with her grandmother, who had presented her with her first little children's Bible, in an easy-to-read translation, when she was very young. Now, a decade or so later, the... read more..

A little boy was roughhousing with his dog. His mother said to him, "Now, Peter, I know you love Granger, but you're loving him too much. How would you feel if someone huge picked you up and squeezed ... read more..

One morning this week, I woke up with a black eye. How I got it still baffles me. I have my suspicions, of course, but some things are better left to themselves no matter how lonely they may get. In g... read more..

The newlywed Goober went to the store to ask how to operate the new coffeemaker received as a wedding gift.  The salesman carefully explained how everything worked; how to plug it in, set the tim... read more..

10. "Did anyone think about bringing a couple of umbrellas?"9. "Hey, there are more than two flies in here!"8. "Wasn't someone supposed to put two shovels on board?"7. "OK, who's the wise-guy who brou read more..

"Open wider," requested the dentist, as he began his examination of the patient. "Good Grief!" he said startled. "You've got the biggest cavity I've ever seen -- the biggest cavity I've ever seen." read more..

A very refined young man comes to a small food shop and sees fruit. "Give me two kilograms of oranges and wrap every orange up in a separate piece of paper, please," he says to the saleswoman. She doe... read more..

In dire need of a beauty make-over, I went to my salon with a fashion magazine photo of a gorgeous, young, lustrous-haired model. I showed the stylist the trendy new cut I wanted and settled into the... read more..