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FUN GAMES WITH YOUR FRIENDS / IRISH "ALZHIEMERS"
« on: March 20, 2009, 07:17:04 AM »

 Murphy showed up at Mass one Sunday and the priest almost fainted
 when he saw him. Murphy had never been seen in Church in his life.

 After Mass, the priest caught up with Murphy and said, Murphy, I am
 so glad ya decided to come to Mass, what made ya come?"

 Murphy said, "I got to be honest with you Father, a while back, I
 misplaced me hat and I really, really love that hat. I know that
 McGlynn had a hat just like me hat, and I knew that McGlynn comes to
 Church every Sunday. I also knew that McGlynn had to take off his
 hat during Mass and figured he would leave it in the back of Church.
 So, I was going to leave after Communion and steal McGlynn's hat."

 The priest said, "Well, Murphy, I notice that ya didn't steal
 McGlynn's hat. What changed your mind?"

 Murphy said, "Well, after I heard your sermon on the 10
 Commandments, I decided that I didn't need to steal McGlynn's hat
 after all."

 The priest gave Murphy a big smile and said, "After I talked about
 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' ya decided you would rather do without the
 hat than burn in Hell, right?"

 Murphy slowly shook his head and said, "No, Father, after ya talked
 about 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery', I remembered where I left me
 hat."

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FUN GAMES WITH YOUR FRIENDS / Be Careful What You Ask for
« on: February 17, 2009, 07:54:04 AM »
A young boy came home from playing and went up to
 his mother, saying,
 "Mommy, I was at the playground and I saw Daddy's
 car go into the Woods
 with Aunt Jane. I went back to look and he was
 giving Aunt Jane a big
 kiss. Then he helped her take off her shirt. Then
 Aunt Jane helped Daddy
 take his pants off, then Aunt Jane ... "
 At this point, the boy's mother cut him off and
 said, "Johnny, this is
 such an interesting story, suppose you save the rest
 of it for suppertime.
 I want to see the look on Daddy's face when you tell
 it tonight!"
 At the dinner table, she asked little Johnny to tell
 his story.
 "I was at the playground and I saw Daddy's car go
 into the woods with Aunt
 Jane," began Johnny. "I went back to look and he was
 giving Aunt Jane a
 big kiss, then he helped her take off her shirt.
 Then Aunt Jane helped
 Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane and Daddy
 started doing the same
 thing that Mommy and Uncle Bill used to do when
 Daddy was in the Army."

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FUN GAMES WITH YOUR FRIENDS / Easter Joke
« on: February 17, 2009, 07:45:16 AM »
A man and his ever-nagging wife went  on vacation to Jerusalem.

While they were there, the wife  passed away.

The undertaker told the husband, "You can have  her shipped home for
$5,000,
or you can bury her here, in the Holy  Land, for $150."

The man thought about it and told him he would  just have her shipped home.
The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend  $5,000 to ship your wife home,
when
it would be wonderful to be  buried here and you  would spend only $150?"

The man  replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and  three
days
later he rose from the dead. I just can't  take that  chance."

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HOLLYWOOD & SHOWBIZ NEWS / My Confession
« on: January 06, 2009, 06:49:09 AM »
Remarks from CBS Ben Stein Commentary (everyone should read)

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning

Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.  And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees..  I don't feel threatened.  I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are:  Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me.  I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in    a ghetto.  In fact, I kind of like it  It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu ..  If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.  I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.  I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country.  I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?  I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.   But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:  This is not intended to be a joke;  it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.  She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.  And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out.  How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.  I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.  Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school.  The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself..  And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem ( Dr Spock's son committed suicide).  We said an expert should know what he's talking about.  And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.  I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell  Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.  Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.  Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.  If not then just discard it... no one will know you did..  But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in. 

My Best Regards,  Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein 

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BREAKING NEWS / lotto ticket wins $10M for widow
« on: January 04, 2009, 03:56:18 AM »
Conn. man's last lotto ticket wins $10M for widow

DANBURY, Conn. – On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family.

Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury.

On Friday, his widow cashed in one of the tickets: a $10 million winner which, in her grief over her husband's death, she had put aside and almost discarded before recently checking the numbers.

"I'm numb," Charlotte Peters, 78, said at Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill.

Donald Peters usually bought the tickets for 10 weeks at a stretch, so the winning ticket he bought Nov. 1 for the Dec. 2 drawing was among several that Charlotte Peters put aside as she, their three children and two grandchildren coped with his sudden death.

"I was in the grocery store and I had it checked and they told me I was a winner," she said. "I had no idea how much it was."

She said she thought she had won $6 million but was surprised to learn from lottery officials she'd won $10 million.

Charlotte Peters has 60 days to decide whether to take a $6 million pre-tax lump sum payment or stretch the winnings into 21 yearly payments of almost $477,300 each.

She does not yet know what she will do with the money.

"I've always wanted a Corvette, but I don't think I'll buy one. I'll stick to a small car. I might go to Mohegan Sun," she said, referring to the casino in Connecticut. "I'm going to go home and sit and think."

The Peters children think their father would have appreciated the irony.

"He'd be very mad, he just passed away and she won a lot of money," said Brian Peters, one of the couple's three children. "He'd say, 'Figures!'"

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