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Humor

Humor from a friend.

 

Logic from an uncluttered Mind

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. 

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.

The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’

The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’.

 

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God.’

The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’

 

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six-year-olds.

After explaining the commandment to ‘honor’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’

From the back, one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill.’

 

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. 

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?’

Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Mummy, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?’

 

 

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.  ‘Just think how nice it will be to  look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s  Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a  doctor.’

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’

 

A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’ 

‘Yes,’ the class said.   

 “Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary positions the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’ 

A little fellow shouted, “Cause your feet ain’t empty.”

 

 

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note and posted on the apple tray: ‘Take only ONE.  God is watching.’

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want.  God is watching the apples….’

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Very good Tuesday

Two-forty as I type this message.  Today I have focused on activities other than “climbing the family tree.” Maybe later (?) because two new obituaries arrived this morning–and two new… yesterday evening. I’m delighted to report that “a good night’s sleep” inspires me to accomplish household tasks.

Sadly, I have a dozen (or more) obituaries that need time and attention. Please pray with me that I do not fall victim to the Coronavirus. I seldom leave home but, belatedly, I recognized that I did a “dumb thing“ yesterday. I took trash to the dumpster (that was OK). I opened the door to the clubhouse—without gloves—to deposit my rent check in the locked box. (That was not OK.) An “always on the go” resident, “never know where he’s been,” without consideration for others, had just had his hands on the doorknob.

for the genealogist (“tree climber”), and for the family and friends of the loved one.

Extremely small world ?

Today, I started documenting the obituary for Thomas Kenneth Longenecker (1939-2020) and (to make a long story short) it led to Honeyman which led to Macy. The name “Macy” is in my maternal line so I researched that information and it led to “Fluke.” Suddenly, I’m looking at information for my third-great-grandmother anticipating I’d find a brother-sister relationship. Now I’m looking at the same individuals in both my maternal and paternal lines. This is so exciting!! An unexpected surprise!!

For your information

With the precision of a surgeon?!

Strange as that may sound, I approach every person in my Ancestry.com database “with the precision of a surgeon.”  No room for error, in my humble opinion.