Sunday Funnies: October 2

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Another installment from my dad’s humor cards.

The backstory: My dad was a Presbyterian pastor for 40 years. He kept a well curated stack of humor cards – little stories or observations that he typed onto 5×7 cards. Then he wrote in the margins when he used that particular item. His humor was often an easy way to settle in to something deeper – by laughing and thinking about the buried truth in these little nuggets, it paved the way to an open heart.

When we cleaned out his desk after he died 7 years ago, I was lucky enough to stumble on this stack. I pull it out regularly to have a little laugh with my dear Dad. Now when I post one of them, I write my note next to his and it feels like a continuation.

Church Funnies

A woman went to the Post Office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards. “What denomination?” asked the clerk. “Oh good heavens! Have we come to this?” said the woman. “Well, give me 50 Baptist and 50 Catholic ones.”

On a very cold, snowy Sunday in February, only the pastor and one famer arrived at the village church. The pastor said, “Well, I guess we won’t have a service today.” The farmer replied, “Heck, if even only one cow shows up at feeding time, I feed it.”

During a children’s sermon, Rev. Larry Eisenberg asked the children what “Amen” means. A little boy raised his hand and said, “It means ‘Tha-tha-tha-that’s all folks!'”

30 thoughts on “Sunday Funnies: October 2”

  5. Times change and our times have doubled back. The lead joke would have been funny 20 years ago. Now it is troubling given the direction of our country. The joker couldn’t have predicted where the reader and the world would be today.

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  6. Love your dad’s never-ending supply of humor to filll up extra white space in my senior-living condo newsletter. This month it was the one about the two old gents passing in the hall of the assisted living facility—one asked the other if knew his name and other replied, “How soon do you need to know?” 😂

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  8. Love the humour and I think your father must have seen the importance of humour also. I think you have that spark and appreciation and he must smile seeing people around the world enjoying his collection being retold by you.

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