Church
Humour!
- At Kirk of
Calder are not to 'stuffy' to have a laugh at ourselves
..... so check out some of these....
CHURCH "INTIMATIONS" ?
You
will have heard of the mistakes people make in filling Insurance
Claim forms,
Well we now have 'something similar' from Church Intimations!
1. The bible class will be presenting Shakespeare's
Hamlet
in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The Congregation is
invited to attend this tragedy.
2. Low Self Esteem Self-Help Support Group will meet
Thursday at 7 PM.
Please use the back door.
3. The minister will preach his farewell message,
after which
the choir will sing, "Break Forth Into Joy."
4. Remember in prayer the many who are sick
of our church and
community.
5.
Thursday night 'Pot luck' Supper. Prayer and medication
to
follow.
6.
The rosebud on the altar this morning is to announce the
birth of David, the sin of Rev. and Mrs. A
..
7.
A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church
hall. Music will follow.
8.
At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be
"What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to
our choir
practice.
9.
Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the Church Hall.
Please use large double door at the side entrance.
10.
The senior choir invites any member of the congregation who
enjoys sinning to join the choir.
11. Our next song is "Angels We Have Heard
Get High."
12. Don't let worry kill you, let the church
help.
13. The service will close with Little Drops of Water.
One of
the ladies will start quietly and the rest of the
congregation will join in.
14
Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the
addition of several new members and to the deterioration of
some older ones.
15. The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new
giving
campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours."
16. The Rev. Merriwether
spoke briefly, much to the delight of the audience.
17. During the absence of our minister,
we enjoyed the rare privilege of hearing a good sermon from Rev J.F.
Stubbs.
18. The concert held in
Fellowship Hall was a great success. Special thanks are due to the
minister's daughter, who laboured the whole evening at the piano, which as
usual fell upon her.
19.
Twenty-two members were present at the church meeting held at the home of
Mrs. Marsha Crutchfield last evening. Mrs. Crutchfield and Mrs. Smith
sang a duet, The Lord Knows Why.
20. While the Minister
is on holiday, massages can be given to the
church secretary
21. The Minister would
appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their
electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday morning.
22. This being Easter Sunday,
we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the altar.
23. Thursday at 5:00 pm there
will be a meeting of the Little Mothers Club. All wishing to become little
mothers, please see the minister.
24. Irving Benson and Jessie
Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that
began in their school days.
25. The ladies of the church
have cast off clothing of every kind and they may be seen in the church
basement Friday.
26. Announcement in the
church bulletin for a National PRAYER & FASTING Conference: "The
cost for attending the Fasting and Prayer conference includes meals."
27. The church will host an
evening of fine dining, superb entertainment, and gracious hostility.
28. This evening at 7 P.M.
there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a
blanket and come prepared to sin.
29. "Ladies, don't
forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth
keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands."
..
ooo0O0ooo...
A one pound note met a twenty pound note in the
cash
register of a local grocery store. "Hey, where have you been? -
I haven't seen you around here much."
The twenty answered, "I've been hanging
out at the casinos,
went on a cruise ship and did the rounds for a few weeks. I just got
back to the UK recently, went to a couple of football matches,
round shopping centres, that kind of stuff. How about you?"
The one pound note said, "You know, same
old stuff
- church, church, church..."
.ooo0O0ooo...
One Sunday morning, a
minister announced to his congregation:
"My good people,
I have here in my hands three sermons.....
a £500 sermon that lasts five minutes,
a £200 sermon that lasts fifteen minutes,
and a £100 sermon that lasts a full hour....
Now we'll take the collection."
...ooo0O0ooo...
TEAMWORK...
..means never having to take all the blame yourself !!
.ooo0O0ooo...
The minister was wired for
sound with a lapel mike, and as he
preached, he moved briskly about the platform, jerking
the mike cord as he went. Then he moved to one side, getting
wound up in the cord and nearly tripping before jerking it
again. After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the
third pew leaned toward her mother and whispered, "If he
gets loose, will he hurt us?"
ooo0O0ooo..
A Sunday school teacher asked
her little children as they
were on the way to church service, "And why is it
necessary
to be quiet in church?"
One bright little girl replied,
"Because people are sleeping."
ooo0O0ooo
A minister told his
congregation, "Next week I plan to
preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand
my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17. "
The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon,
the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know
how many had read Mark 17.Every hand went up.
The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only 16 chapters...
I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."
ooo0O0ooo
When you do
a good deed,
get a receipt,
(in case Heaven is like
the Inland Revenue !)
ooo0O0ooo
What do you get when you cross a
dyslexic agnostic with an insomniac?
............Someone who lies awake
at night wondering whether there is a Dog !
ooo0O0ooo
Three Ministers were having lunch.
One
said "You know, since summer started I've been having trouble with bats
in my loft at church.
I've tried everything--noise,
spray, cats - nothing seems to scare them away.
Another said "Yes, me too. I've got hundreds living in my
belfry and in the attic. I've even had the place
fumigated and they won't go away.
The third said, "I baptized all mine and made them members of the
church... Haven't seen one back since!"
oo0O0ooo
Now that the metric system is in
wide use all over the world, we can perhaps see why America have not adopted it:
A miss is as good as 1.6 kilometres.
Put your best 0.3 of a metre forward.
Spare the 5.03 metres and spoil the child.
28 grams of prevention is worth 453 grams of cure.
Give a man 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.6 kilometers.
Peter Piper picked 8.8 litres of pickled peppers.
oo0O0ooo
The young couple invited their
minister for Sunday dinner. While they were in the kitchen preparing the
meal, the minister asked their son what they were having.
"Goat," the little boy replied.
"Goat?" replied the startled man of the cloth, "Are you sure
about that?"
"Yep," said the youngster. "I heard Dad say to Mum 'Might as
well have the old goat for dinner today as any other day.'"
oo0O0ooo
A
preacher, who was "humor impaired," attended a conference
to help encourage and better equip pastors for their ministry.
Among the speakers were many well known and dynamic speakers.
One such boldly approached the pulpit and, gathering the
entire crowd's attention, said, "The best years of my life
were spent in the arms of a woman that wasn't my wife!" The
crowd was shocked! He followed up by saying, "And that woman
was my mother!" - The crowd burst into laughter and delivered
the rest of his talk, which went over quite well.
The next week, our pastor decided he'd give this humor thing
a try, and use that joke in his sermon. As he approached the
pulpit that Sunday, he tried to rehearse the joke in his head.
It suddenly seemed a bit foggy to him.
Getting to the microphone he said loudly, "The greatest years
of my life were spent in the arms of a woman that was not my
wife!" The congregation inhaled in surprise. After standing
there for almost 10 seconds in the stunned silence, trying to
recall the second half of the joke, the pastor finally blurted
out, "...and I can't remember who she was!"
oo0O0ooo
A
student studying to be a minister was so nervous at her first church
service, his voice went hoarse and none of the congregation could hear a
word she said. Before her second appearance in the pulpit, she asked the
current moderator of the church how she could relax. The moderator said,
"Next Sunday, it may Help if you put a little vodka in the glass kept
in the pulpit. After just a few sips, your voice will loosen up and
everything will be fine."
The
next Sunday the student put the idea to the text and found the words just
flowed as the sermon proceeded. She felt elated. Returning to the vestry,
she found a letter from the moderator which read:
A
nice try, but next time...
oo0O0oo
Dear
Technical Support,
Last
year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed that
the new program began making unexpected changes to the accounting software,
severely limiting access to wardrobe, flower, and jewellery applications
that operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
No mention of
this phenomenon was included in the product brochure.
In
addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalls many other valuable programmes such as
DinnerDancing 7.5, CruiseShip 2.3, and OperaNight 6.1, and installs new,
undesirable programmes such as PokerNight 1.3, SaturdayFootball 5.0, Golf
2.4, and ClutterEverywhere 4.5.
Conversation
8.0 no longer runs, and invariably crashes the system. Under no
circumstances will it run NappyChanging 14.1 or HouseCleaning
2.6.
I've
tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix Husband 1.0, but this all-purpose
utility is of limited effectiveness. Can
you help, please?!!?
Jane
-------
Dear
Jane,
This
is a very common problem women complain about, but it is mostly due
to a primary misconception. Many
people upgrade from Boyfriend 5.0
to Husband 1.0 with no idea that Boyfriend 5.0 is merely an ENTERTAINMENT
package.
However,
Husband 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and was designed by its creator
to run as few applications as possible.
Further, you cannot purge
Husband 1.0 and return to Boyfriend 5.0, because Husband 1.0 is not
designed to do this. Hidden
operating files within your system would
cause Boyfriend 5.0 to emulate Husband 1.0, so nothing is gained.
It
is impossible to uninstall, delete, or purge the programme files from
the
system, once installed. Any new
programme files can only be installed
once per year, as Husband 1.0 has severely limited memory.
Error
messages are common, and a normal part of Husband 1.0.
In
desperation to play some of their "old time" favorite
applications, or
to get new applications to work, some women have tried to install Boyfriend
6.0, or Husband 2.0. However,
these women end up with more problems than encountered with Husband 1.0.
Look in your manual under "Warnings:
Divorce/Child Support". You
will notice that this programme runs
very poorly, and comes bundled with Heartbreak 1.3. I recommend you
keep Husband 1.0 and just learn the quirks of this strange and illogical
system.
Having
Husband 1.0 installed myself, I might also suggest you read the entire
section regarding General Partnership Faults (GPFs). This is a wonderful
feature of Husband 1.0, secretly installed by the parent company as an
integral part of the operating system.
Husband 1.0 must assume
ALL responsibility for ALL faults and problems, regardless of root cause. To
activate this great feature, enter the command "C:\I THOUGHT YOU LOVED
ME". Sometimes Tears 6.2 must be run simultaneously while
entering the command. Husband 1.0 should then run the applications
Apologize 12.3 and Flowers/Chocolates 7.8.
TECH
TIP! Avoid excessive use of
this feature. Overuse can
create additional
and more serious GPFs, and ultimately YOU may have to give a
C:\I APOLOGISE command before the system will return to normal operations.
Overuse can also cause Husband 1.0 to default to GrumpySilence 2.5, or worse
yet, to Beer 6.0. Beer 6.0 is a
very bad programme
that causes Husband 1.0 to create FatBelly files and SnoringLoudly
wave files that are very hard to delete.
Just
remember! The system will run
smoothly, and take the blame for all
GPFs, but because of this fine feature, it can only intermittently run
all applications Boyfriend 5.0 ran. Husband
1.0 is a great program,
but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications
quickly.
Consider
buying additional software to improve performance. I personally
recommend HotFood 3.0, Lingerie 5.3, and Patience 10.1. Used
in conjunction, these utilities can really help keep Husband 1.0 running
smoothly. After several years of use, Husband 1.0 will become familiar
and you will find many valuable embedded features such as FixBrokenThings
2.1, Snuggling 4.2, and BestFriend 7.6.
A
final word of caution! do NOT,
under any circumstances, install MotherInLaw
1.0. This is not a supported
application, and will cause selective
shutdown of the operating system. Husband
1.0 will run only Fishing
9.4 and Hunting 5.2 until MotherInLaw 1.0 is uninstalled.
I
hope these notes have helped. Thank
you for choosing to install Husband
1.0, and we here at Tech Support wish you the best of luck in coming years. We trust you will learn to fully enjoy
this product!
oo0O0oo
Childrens Letters to .......SANTA
Dear Santa Claus,
I need toys for this year and the next year and the next year.
- I can't write every year
Love Max
Dear Santa,
You don't have to give me anything for Christmas,
Just leave something for all the other days,
Love George
Dear Santa,
I love you. If you don't leave me anything for Christmas I won't cry.
- I am a big boy.
Love Steve
P.S. But I will be very sad.
Dear Santa
I want one of everything you got!
Morris
Dear Santa,
My grandmother says to my brother and me that the best Xmas present is good
health.
I have good health already so I would like a doll instead.
Love Gertrude.
Dear Santa Claus
My name is Robert. I am 6 years old.
I want a rifle, a pistol, a machine gun, a hand grenade, dynamite, and tear gas.
I am planning a surprise for my big brother
Your Friend, Robert
Dear Santa Claus,
I would like to get on your good boy list.
I have been on plenty of bad boy lists already
Your friend, Horace
Hi Santa
Last year you didn't leave me anything so good.
The year before last year you didn't leave me anything so good.
This is your last chance
Your friend, Alfred
Dear Santa
I would like to have a dog, a cat, a rabbit, a pet monkey, a snake and a lion
for Christmas.
My mother doesn't know about this letter<
Your Pal, Eugene
Children's Letters to GOD
Dear God
Remember when the snow was deep there was no school?
Can we have it again?
Guy
Dear God
Please send me a pony, I never asked for anything before - you can look it up
Bruce
Dear God
O.K. I kept my half of the deal,
Where's the bike?
Bert
Dear God
How come you didn't invent any new animals lately?
We still have just all the old ones
Johnny
Dear God<
I wished on a star two times , but nothing happened.
Now what?
Anna
Dear God,
That fairy you sent left 20p for my tooth and 50p for my brother's.
So you still owe me 30p
Peter
Dear God,
If you don't take the baby back - I will not clean up my room
Joy
Dear God
Christmas should be earlier because kids can only be good for so long
Beth
Dear God
We got a lot of Religion in our house . So don't worry about us.
Teddy
Dear God
Is Mother nature in your family?
Linda
Dear God
I am adopted . Is that as good as being real?
Paul
Dear God
If you don't want people to say bad words - why did you invent them?
Eugene
Dear God
My teacher says the North Pole is not really at the Top.
Did you make any other mistakes?
Herbie
Dear God
Count me in!
Herbie
Children on .......Love
I think you can fall in love if you have your
picture taken in front of the church
Eric age 5
You have to love your baby brother otherwise
he gets wind
Alice age 4
Sex is part of love, but not a very good part
Joanna age 6
If you eat sweets in church the minister tells
Jesus
Robert aged 5
Mummy went away even though I loved her
Michael aged 6
My mother says she is cold and then makes me
put on a coat
Colin age 7
When I am at school my mummy has fun
Stephen age 5
You have to love your own baby because
everyone else finds them a nuisance
Patrick aged 8
I hate school, and school lunches , and all my
friends
Patrick age 6
Ministers don't laugh much. I think it is
because Jesus didn't tell many jokes
Richard aged 6
oo0O0oo
CALLING HEAVEN
Thank you for calling Heaven,
For English, Press 1.
For Spanish, press 2.
For all other languages, press 0.
Please select one of the following options:
Press 1 for Requests.
Press 2 for Thanksgiving.
Press 3 for Complaints.
Press 4 for all other inquiries.
I am sorry; all of our angels and saints are busy helping other sinners right now. However,
your prayer is important to us, and we will answer it in the order it was received. Please stay on the line.
If you would like to speak
to:
God, press 1.
Jesus, press 2.
Holy Spirit, press 3.
If you would like to hear King David sing a Psalm while you are holding, press 4.
To find a loved one that has been assigned to Heaven, press 5, then
enter his or her national insurance number, followed by the "hash"
sign. (If you receive a negative response, please hang up and try area code
666).
For reservations at Heaven, please enter J-O-H-N, followed by the numbers
3-1-6.
For answers to nagging questions about dinosaurs, the age of the
earth, life on other planets, and where Noah's Ark is, please wait until you
arrive.
Our computers show that you have already prayed today.
Please hang up and try again tomorrow.
The office is now closed for the weekend to observe a religious holiday. Please pray again
on Monday after 9:30 am.
If you are calling after hours and need emergency assistance, please
contact your local minister.
Thank you, and have a heavenly day.
oo0O0oo
Writing Techniques:
** Avoid alliteration. Always.
** Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
** Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
** Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
** Contractions aren't necessary.
** Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
** One should never generalize.
** Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
** Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly
superfluous.
** Be more or less specific.
** One-word sentences? Eliminate.
** Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
** Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
** Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
** Who needs rhetorical questions?
** Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
oo0O0oo
How
many choir members does it take to change a light bulb?
Charismatics:
Only one. Hands already in the air.
Roman
Catholics: None. They use candles.
Pentecostals:
Ten. One to change the bulb, and nine to pray against the spirit of
darkness.
Presbyterians:
None. God has predestined when the lights will be on and off.
Episcopalians:
Eight. One to call the electrician, and seven to say how much they liked the
old one better.
Mormons:
Five. One man to change the bulb, and four wives to tell him how to do it.
Unitarians:
"We choose not to make a statement either in favour of or against the
need for a light bulb. However, if in your own journey you have found that
light bulbs work for you, that is fine. You are invited to write a poem or
compose a modern dance about your personal relationship with your light
bulb, and present it next month at our annual light bulb Sunday service, in
which we will explore a number of light bulb traditions, including
incandescent, fluorescent, three-way, long-life and tinted, all of which are
equally valid paths to luminescence."
Baptists:
At least 15. One to change the light bulb, and two or three committees to
approve the change. Oh, and also one to provide a casserole.
Methodists:
(see Baptists)
Lutherans:
None. Lutherans don't believe in change.
oo0O0oo
"Ode
to the Spell Checker!"
Eye
halve a spelling checker
It
came with my pea sea
It
plainly marcs four my revue
Miss
steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye
strike a key and type a word
And
weight four it two say
Weather
eye am wrong oar write
It
shows me strait a weigh.
As
soon as a mist ache is maid
It
nose bee fore two long
And
eye can put the error rite
Its
rare lea ever wrong.
Eye
have run this poem threw it
I
am shore your pleased two no
Its
letter perfect awl the weigh
My
checker tolled me sew.
oo0O0oo
It's
October, and an Indian chief thinks it's going to be a cold winter.
So he instructs his tribe to collect firewood. To double-check
his prediction, the chief calls the National Weather Service and asks a
meteorologist if the winter is going to
be a cold one.
The
man responds, "According to our indicators, we think it might."
So
the chief tells his people to find extra wood, just in case.
A
week later he calls the National Weather Service again, and they
confirm that a harsh winter is headed their way.
The
chief orders all of his people to scavenge every scrap of wood
they can. Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again and
asks, "Are you absolutely sure this winter is going
to be very cold?"
"Absolutely,"
the man replies. "The Indians are collecting wood like crazy."
oo0O0oo
The
minister, looking over his large congregation on Easter morning, startled
them with this announcement: "My friends, realizing that I will not see
many of you until next Easter, may I take this opportunity to wish all of
you a merry Christmas and a happy New
Year!"
oo0O0oo
Delivering
his speech at the opening banquet of The General Assembly, the visiting
minister told several anecdotes he expected to repeat at a service the next
day.
Because
he wanted to use the jokes again, he requested that the reporters omit them
from any accounts they might turn in to their newspapers. A cub reporter, in
commenting on the speech, ended his piece with the following, "The
minister told a number of stories that cannot be printed here."
oo0O0oo
Atheism
is a non-prophet organization.
oo0O0oo
BEST
THINGS TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING AT YOUR DESK
15.
"They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen."
14. "This
is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in the last management course you sent me
to."
13. "Whew! Guess I left the lid off the liquid paper."
12. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new
paradigm!"
11. "This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!"
10. "I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance."
9. "Actually doing a "Stress Level Elimination
Exercise Plan" (SLEEP) I learned at the last mandatory
seminar you made me attend."
8. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory towards
people who practice Yoga?"
7. "Darn, Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."
6. "The coffee machine is broke ..."
5. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot."
4. "Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off!"
3. "Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the
workaholic!"
2. "Wasn't sleeping. Was
trying to pick up my contact lens without
using my hands."
And
the #1 best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk:
1. "AMEN"
oo0O0oo
The
factory of the future will have two employees, a man and a dog. The man will
be there to feed the dog and the dog is there to keep the man from touching
the computers.
oo0O0oo
Things
You Would Never Know Without The Movies
1) During all police investigations it will be necessary to
visit a strip club at least
once.
2)
If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a
passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.
3)
All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit
level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
4)
All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French Bread.
5)
It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
6)
Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.
7)
The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No-one
will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other
part of the building you want without difficulty.
8)
If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more ammunition even if
you haven't been carrying any before now.
9)
You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you
make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back
home.
10)
Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not
be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
oo0O0oo
Far away in the tropical waters of the
Caribbean, two prawns were swimming
around in the sea - one called Justin and the other called Christian. The prawns were constantly being harassed and
threatened by sharks that patrolled the area.
Finally one day Justin said to Christian,
"I'm bored and frustrated at being a prawn, I wish I was a shark, then
I wouldn't have any worries about being eaten..."
As Justin had his mind firmly on
becoming a predator, a mysterious cod appears and says, "Your wish is
granted", and lo and behold, Justin turned
into a shark. Horrified, Christian immediately swam away, afraid of being
eaten by his old mate.
Time went on (as it invariably does...) and
Justin found himself becoming bored and
lonely as a shark. All his old mates simply swam away whenever
he came close to them. Justin didn't realise that his new menacing
appearance was the cause of his sad
plight.
While out swimming alone one day he sees the
mysterious cod again and can't believe
his luck. Justin figured that the fish could change him back into
a prawn. He begs the cod to change him back so, lo and behold, he is turned
back into prawn.
With tears of joy in his tiny little eyes,
Justin swam back to his friends and
bought them all a cocktail. (The punch line does not involve a prawn
cocktail - it's much worse) !
Looking around the gathering at the reef, he
searched for his old pal. "Where's Christian?" he asked.
"He's at home, distraught that his best friend changed sides to the enemy
and
became a shark", came the reply.
Eager to put things right again and end the
mutual pain and torture, he set off to Christian's house. As he opened
the coral gate the memories came flooding back.
He banged on the door and shouted, "It's
me, Justin, your old friend, come out and
see me again."
Christian replied "No way man, you'll
eat me. You're a shark, the enemy and I'll not be tricked. "
Justin cried back "No, I'm not. That was
the old me. I've changed."
.......... Wait for it..............
"I've seen Cod. I'm a prawn again
Christian"
oo0O0oo
Finally
...When your wife asks, "Do I look fat in this?" The correct response
is..........,
"Do
I look stupid?"
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