Tag: jokes
member name: Amy L.
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April 26, 2009 03:17 PM EDT --
On our way to my parents' house for dinner one evening, I glanced over at my 15-year-old daughter. "Isn't that skirt a bit short?" I asked. She rolled her eyes at my comment and gave . . .
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April 26, 2009 03:04 PM EDT --
My appointment as pastor coincided with the church's appeal for aid for victims of a hurricane. Unfortunately, on my first Sunday in the parish, the center page of the church bulletin was accidentally . . .
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April 26, 2009 03:06 PM EDT --
I was preparing lunch for my granddaughter when the phone rang. "If you can answer one question," a young man said, "you'll win ten free dance lessons."
Before I could tell . . .
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April 26, 2009 10:38 PM EDT --
While working as a television-news cameraman, I arrived at an accident scene, and a cameraman from another station pulled up behind me. As I parked the news cruiser, I heard a policeman on the scanner . . .
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April 26, 2009 10:43 PM EDT --
As a potential juror in an assault-and-battery case, I was sitting in a courtroom, answering questions from both sides. The assistant district attorney asked such questions as: Had I ever been mugged? . . .
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April 28, 2009 08:59 PM EDT --
We purchased an old home in northern New York State from two elderly sisters. Winter was fast approaching, and I was concerned about the house's lack of insulation. "If they could live here all . . .
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April 28, 2009 09:00 PM EDT --
My fellow teacher called for help—she needed someone who knew about animals. As a science teacher, I filled the bill. "Oh," she added, "bring a net." Expecting to find some kind of . . .
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April 28, 2009 09:02 PM EDT --
Walking through the hallways at the middle school where I work, I saw a new substitute teacher standing outside his classroom with his forehead against a locker. I heard him mutter, "How did you . . .
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April 28, 2009 09:03 PM EDT --
A student in my math course at Ohlone State College in Fremont, Calif., developed a severe case of tendinitis. Since she couldn't write, she brought a video camera to tape my lectures. After three . . .
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April 28, 2009 09:06 PM EDT --
According to the Internet: Students in a Harvard English 101 class were asked to write a concise essay containing four elements: religion, royalty, sex and mystery. The only A+ in the class read: "'My . . .
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April 26, 2009 03:02 PM EDT --
What do fish say when they hit a concrete wall?…Dam!
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April 26, 2009 03:03 PM EDT --
On a recent trip to the post office, I took a few minutes to read the notices posted on the public bulletin board in the lobby. One in particular caught my eye.
It read “Lost in post-office parking . . .
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April 26, 2009 03:11 PM EDT --
How unfortunate for Weight Watchers. The sign for its branch in a Roanoke, Virginia, mall sits above the sign for a tie-dye shop. The name of that store? A Little Bit Hippy.
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April 26, 2009 10:40 PM EDT --
My son, Scott, an insurance broker in Florida, loves ocean fishing and takes his cell phone along on the boat. One morning we were drifting about ten miles offshore as Scott discussed business on the . . .
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April 28, 2009 09:04 PM EDT --
Toward the end of the school year, the sixth-grade teachers decide which of their students should be accelerated in certain subjects in the seventh grade. When a child is chosen, his parents are notified. . . .
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April 28, 2009 09:04 PM EDT --
A friend was assigned a new post teaching English to inmates in prison. Feeling a little nervous on his first day, he began by asking the class a basic question:
"Now, who can tell me what a sentence . . .
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April 28, 2009 09:06 PM EDT --
My father began teaching business classes at the local prison through a community college. On his first night of class, he started a chapter on banking. During the course of his lecture, the subject of . . .
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