Tag: humor

Quotable: Theodore Roosevelt

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”

One of my favorite gifts

This is the front of my Mac at work. The attached clipping is from a Pearls Before Swine comic that was clipped out and given to me by my wife. This is one of my favorite things that I have received—not because of its intrinsic value—but because of what it represents. At work I am …

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Theology of Air Conditioning

Jonah 4:8, “…and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Overheard: 34 yr old mom

“…you try to put ’em in the car seat and they do this [go stiff] and we call that the board baby, and you just wanna karate chop ’em right in the middle–wa-CHA!”

Happy Independence Day from Germany

“God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.” –Otto von Bismarck

Things to avoid

Galatians 2:12, “For before certain men came from James, he [Peter] was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.” I’d be afraid of anything called a ‘circumcision party’ as well.

Motorcycle Awareness

Most of us just think these things quietly in our heads, but my former classmate is unfettered by such constraints (her username and ‘sentence enhancers’ pixelated to protect the guilty):

Thanks, Siri

The other day I was dictating voice notes on my phone for my Wednesday night lesson at church. At one point what I said was “Three offices in Old Testament were prophet, priest and king.” What Siri translated was, “Three offices in Old Testament were probably pretty stinky.” While technically true, due to the hot …

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Overheard: 30 year old female

“I got a lot to do; gotta go home, gotta beat some kids.”

What do we do when a horse bucks us off?

My friend The Dread Pirate Rob has a passel of small children. One day the three year old fell down and hurt himself. Rob comforted him and also used the opportunity as a teaching moment, encouraging him to pick himself back up instead of just crying and waiting for help. “What do we do when …

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