"Laughter isn't an escape from reality, it's evidence that we understand reality and can cope with it." W. W. Wiersbe
We all misunderstand sometimes...
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. -Peter Ustinov
WATCH YOUR STEP-
Three guys die together in an accident and go to heaven. When they get there, St. Peter says, "We only have one rule here in heaven: Don't step on the ducks!"
So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, and although they try their best to avoid them, the first guy accidentally steps on one.
Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest woman he has ever seen. St. Peter chains them together and says, "Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to the ugly woman!"
The next day, the second guy steps accidentally on a duck, and along comes St. Peter, who doesn't miss a thing, and with him is another extemely ugly woman. He chains them together with the same admonishment as for the first guy.
The third guy has observed all this and not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly woman, is very, VERY careful where he steps. He manages to go months without stepping on any ducks, but one day St. Peter comes up to him with the most gorgeous woman he has ever laid eyes on: a very tall, tan, curvaceous, sexy blonde. St. Peter chains them together without saying a word.
The guy remarks, "I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you for all of eternity?"
She says, "I don't know about you, but I stepped on a duck!"
Whatz more beautiful than freckles? ...
An elderly woman and her little grandson, whose face was sprinkled with bright freckles, spent the day at the zoo. Lots of children were waiting in line to get their cheeks painted by a local artist who was decorating them with tiger paws. "You`ve got so many freckles, there`s no place to paint!" a girl in the line said to the little fella. Embarrassed, the little boy dropped his head. His grandmother knelt down next to him. "I love your freckles. When I was a little girl I always wanted freckles," she said, while tracing her finger across the child`s cheek. "Freckles are beautiful."The boy looked up, "Really?""Of course," said the grandmother. "Why, just name me one thing that`s prettier than freckles."The little boy thought for a moment, peered intensely into his grandma`s face, and softly whispered, "Wrinkles."
Laughter - a Beautiful Sound
A Merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)
I wuz justa wonderin'...
If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter? If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign? If it is tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
These reports are old but are suppose to be actual quotes taken from insurance forms:
* Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have. * The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions. * A truck backed through my windshield into my wife's face * I pulled away from the side of the road...glanced at my mother-in-law and headed over the embankment. ...and * I had been driving 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident. (Probably should have taken a break after twenty years.)
It's not about you....it's about ME!
I keep my feet on the ground no matter what....you can't fall off the floor. I plan on living forever...so far, so good. I have kleptomania...but when it gets bad I take something for it...and I don't get even - I get odder!
ACCORDING TO DR. LAURA-
The Advantages of Being a Man:
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat You know stuff about tanks You can open all your own jars You can go to the bathroom without a support group and... (drum roll please) You can kill your own food.
A veggie - tale ...
A family of three tomatoes were walking downtown one day when the little baby tomato started lagging behind. The big father tomato walks back to the baby tomato, stomps on her, squashing her into a red paste, and tells her“Ketchup!”
DIETING...?
Overweight is something that just sort of snacks up on you.
The snack bar next door to an atom smasher was called "The Fission Chips."
Sorry for eating the peanuts
A man visits his aunt in the nursing home. It turns out that she is taking a nap, so he just sits down in a chair in her room, flips through a few magazines, and munches on some peanuts sitting in a bowl on the table.
Eventually, the aunt wakes up, and her nephew realizes he's absentmindedly finished the entire bowl. "I'm so sorry, auntie, I've eaten all of your peanuts!"
"That's okay, dearie," the aunt replied. "After I've sucked the chocolate off, I don't care for them anyway." (Aha! Jokes.com) [HAR! ...I love this one!]
Traffic Accident
Well, Your Honor, I really didn't mean to get into a fight with the driver of the car I ran into the other day.
I was rear-ended, which caused me to rear-end the car in front of me. The driver, whom you can see is a dwarf, approached aggressively after the accident yelling, "I am NOT happy."
I decided that I would try to lighten things up and answered, "OK, I can see that, but then which one are you?"
That's when the fight started.
Rest in Peace
When I was a young minister, a funeral director asked me to hold a grave side service for a homeless man with no family or friends. The funeral was to be at a cemetery way out in the country. This was a new cemetery and this man was the first to be laid to rest there.
I was not familiar with the area and became lost. Being a typical man, of course, I did not ask for directions. I finally found the cemetery about an hour late. The back hoe was there and the crew was eating their lunch. The hearse was nowhere to be seen.
I apologized to the workers for being late. As I looked into the open grave, I saw the vault lid already in place. I told the workers I would not keep them long, but that this was the proper thing to do. The workers, still eating their lunch, gathered around the opening.
I was young and enthusiastic and poured out my heart and soul as I preached. The workers joined in with, "Praise the Lord," "Amen," and "Glory!" I got so into the service that I preached and preached and preached, from Genesis to The Revelation.
When the service was over, I said a prayer and walked to my car. As I opened the door, I heard one of the workers say, "I never saw anything like that before and I've been putting in septic systems for twenty years."
Laugh every day...it's like inner jogging.
Pearls of Wisdom...about God
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
God loves everyone, but probably prefers "fruits of the spirit" over "religious nuts!"
If God is your co-pilot...swap seats!
God pomises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power (God) behind us.
I want to represent Christ so clearly that when I wake in the morning I want the devil to say...
"Oh NO....She's up!"
Take two aspirins.....
Happily Ever After...
A middle aged man goes into the doctor's office for a check-up with a litany of complaints.
The doctor speaks to the man’s wife alone and says, "There is nothing the matter with your husband. If you make a couple of meals for him a day, let him watch his sports. Do not complain at him too much and require him to listen. Limit his exposure to in-laws and make love to him once a week. Then, he’ll probably live another 20 years."
She returns to her husband’s side in the waiting room. He asks, "What did the doctor tell you?"
"You are going to be dying soon, my dear."
(From Beliefnet.com)
Have You Challenged God Lately?
One day a group of Darwinian scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one Darwinian to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.
The Darwinian walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost."
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the Darwinian was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this? Let's say we have a man-making contest." To which the Darwinian happily agreed.
God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam."
The Darwinian said, "Sure, no problem," and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.
God looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!"
And so it Goes...
2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root. 1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer. 1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition, here, drink this potion. 1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill. 1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective; here...take this antibiotic. 2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial...here...eat this root.
It's true...what goes around comes around!
- Trouble at the Gate -
One day St. Peter saw a street gang walking up to the Pearly Gates.
St. Peter ran to God and said, "God, there are some low-life street gang members at the Gates. What do I do?"
God replied, "Just do what you normally do with that type. Redirect them."
St. Peter went back to carry out the order, but he suddenly came running back and yelling, "God, God, they’re gone! They’re gone!"
"The street gang?"
"No, the Pearly Gates!"
IT'S NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU SEE...BUT HOW YOU SEE IT THAT COUNTS!
A blind man with a seeing eye dog at his side walks into a grocery store. The man walks to the middle of the store, picks up the dog by the tail, and starts swinging the dog around in circles over his head. The store manager, who has seen all this, thinks this is quite strange. So, he decides to find out what's going on. The store manager approaches the blind man swinging the dog and says, "Pardon me. May I help you with something." The blind man says, "No thanks. I'm just looking around."
Well meaning observation...
While attending a marriage seminar on communication, David and his wife listened to the instructor declare, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other."
He addressed the men, "Can you describe your wife's favorite flower?"
David leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered...."Pillsbury All-Purpose, isn't it?"
Know your flowers
A little boy opened the big, old family Bible with fascination. He looked at the old pages as he turned them. The Bible had belonged to his grandmother. Then something fell out of the Bible. He picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that had been pressed between pages. "Momma, look what I found", the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked. With astonishment in the young boy's voice he answered, "I think it's Adam's suit!!!!!"
Joy Through the eyes of a child...
Ward off brain dysfunction...keep it thinking -
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? Enjoy life...think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic. Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side and it holds the universe together. Imagine how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
Why does 'fat chance' and 'slim chance' mean the same thing? If a cow laughs hard, will milk come out its nose? If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge...would they call it Fed UP? Why do Kamikaze pilots where helmets? Warning: If you are too open minded...your brains will fall out. How do you know when something reaches room temperature?...isn't it always room temperature? Should vegans eat animal crackers? If a fork were made of gold would it still be considered silverware? If "poli' means many, and "tics" means bloodsucking creatures, then what does "politics" mean? Okay...so what is the 'speed of dark'? Would a fly without wings be called a walk? Do coffins have lifetime guarantees?
Well...? Do you have any earth shattering and pointed questions that can exercise 'lazy brain disease'? Send them to Walking in Peace through our contact page.
I'm just sayin'...
Billy Sunday said "Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first."
Bill Cosby said "You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."
Ronald Reagan said "No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting"
Mary Kay Ashsaid "So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside." (Mary Kay Cosmetics)
Albert Einstein said "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
Sid Caesar said "Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."
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Some bloopers of biblical proportions written by Sunday school students of both the Christian and Jewish persuasion:
Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark.
Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day, but a ball of fire by night.
Sampson was a strongman who let himself be led astray by a jezebel like Delilah.
Sampson slated the Philistines with the axe of apostles.
The Egyptians were all drowned in the dessert.
Afterward, Moses went up on MountCyanide to get the Ten Amendments.
The Fifth Commandment is humor thy mother and father.
The Seventh Commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery.
Moses died before he ever reached the UK. Then, Joshua led the Hebrews in the Battle of Geritol.
The greatest miracle in the Bible is when Joshua told his son to stand still and he obeyed him.
David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Finkelsteins, a race of people who lived in the biblical times.
Solomon, one of David's sons, has 300 wives and 700 porcupines.
Jesus was born because Mary had an emaculate contraption.
St. John, the Blacksmith, dumped water on his head.
The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 decibels.
The epistles were the wives of the apostles.
One of the opossums was St. Matthew, who was by profession a taximan.
STAYING FIT -
"My doctor told me to start my excersize program very, very gradually. Today I drove past a store that sells sweat pants." R. Glasbergen
Getting old ain't so bad...
I've sure gotten old. I've had two By-pass surgeries. A hip replacement, new knees. Fought skin cancer, and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation, hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends.
But.....Thank goodness, I still have my Florida driver's license!
Walking in Peace / division of C.O.P.E. Women's Ministries Sue Puff, author