Morris had been playing golf for years, and he had the finest equipment, but his technique never improved a bit. As his friend watched, he teed up at the first hole and promptly drove a brand-new ball...
In an early Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown and Lucy are having a conversation. Lucy asks, "What are you doing for your dad on Father's Day?" Charlie replies, "First, I'm going to get him to take m...
Consumer Reports put out a little book entitled "How to Clean Practically Anything." It tells you, what solvent to use for a particular stain. Glycerin will remove the stain from a ball point pen. Boi...
Craig was on his seventh grade basketball team. His team was playing a cross-town rival, and the first half of the game had been hard-fought, with plenty of tension on both sides. When the second half...
In the movie, Welcome to Mooseport, a former President (Gene Hackman) returns to his hometown and runs for mayor; opposing him is a local handyman (Ray Romano). Here's an illustration from the film, c...
New Year's celebrations consist of the making of personal vows and watching to see what drops next....
The little Ball City Baptist Church near the tiny town of Luck, North Carolina, has been closed for years. Young people moved way from the community. The older members died out one by one. But if you ...
Have you seen these answers to test questions from teachers in Christian schools? • Adam and eve were created from an apple tree. Noah's wife was Joan of ark. Noah built an ark and the animals c...
Dear Ann Landers: I am writing from behind bars. The charge? A felony - child molesting. Not a pleasant subject, I realize, but this letter is not being written to be pleasant or to gain sympathy. Yo...
When trying to get the better of each other, who's to say what playing fair really is?...
Erma Bombeck once said that raising children is similar to flying kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. . .they crash. . .you a...
Maurice Stokes was voted into the basketÂball Hall of Fame in 2004, 30 years after his death. Stokes’ promising career was cut short when he was paralyzed during the final game of the 1958 season......
The Mystery of Life I wish that life was as easily explained as that great philosopher of the comic strips, Charlie Brown, once deduced that it was. Lucy is saying to him, "Life is a mystery Charlie B...
Let’s suppose somebody claimed to be the greatest baseball fan of all times. We might ask him, “What makes you the biggest fan ever? Do you know more about the game than anyone else? Have ...
Not everyone quite gets the idea of metaphor and analogy. Here are some examples taken from high school essays (and provided by www.mikeysfunnies.com): ~ Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle tha...
Losing awareness of one's self to focus on God alone is true worshp....