Humor writer Ed McManus said one day he was late leaving home for work. There was a knock at his front door. It was wet and cold outside. He opened the door and there stood two Jehovah’s Witnesses, damp and shivering in the cold. They asked if they could come inside. Well, he ...
... follow my husband’s suggestion to put a little excitement into my life by living within our budget. 3. I’m going to apply for a hardship scholarship to Weight Watchers. 4. I will never loan my car to anyone I have given birth to. Joke writer Ed McManus has some words of comfort for those of us who are setting resolutions: “Don’t worry about [keeping] those 2016 News Year’s resolutions,” he says. “You only have to deal with them until February and then you can give them up for Lent.” (1) It ...
3. What Is a Human Resource?
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Ed McManus, editor of The Jokesmith newsletter, has put out a booklet of humor about folks in human resources. It's called "What is a Human Resource?" and in it he explains how people get assigned to particular jobs. You leave them in a conference room for four hours. Then, you go ...
... look down on others whose traditions are not our traditions. Instead let’s focus on the God who is at the center of our traditions. Let’s seek to imitate the God whom we have encountered in Jesus Christ, whose nature and whose name is love. 1. Ed McManus, The Jokesmith. 2. This is retelling from memory (so some of the details may be wrong) from a true story told to the congregation at Matthew Weil’s Bar Mitzvah, Temple Shalom, Levittown PA, December 7, 1996. Found on the Jewish Humor List. 3. Today in ...
... living in us. Nothing else could explain a love like that. 1. John Buchanan, “Beginnings and Endings,” The Christian Century, Jan 25, 2012. Cited in The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long, http://day1.org/3823 the_start_of_the_trail. 2. As told by Ed McManus in The Jokesmith. 3. Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 463. 4. “What You See Sticks” by Rick Brown, 1Life2Love. 5. Roberta Bondi, To Pray and To Love (Fortress Press), 1991 ...
