Sunday Funnies: May 28

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A re-run of my dad’s humor cards. They make me chuckle all over again – so I hope you enjoy them whether it’s the first time or second (first posted on 4/10/22).

The backstory: My dad was a Presbyterian pastor for 40 years. He kept a well curated stack of humor cards – little stories he heard, found or saw and then 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.

PARABLES

DIFFICULTIES – When they first manufactured golf balls, they made the covers smooth. Then it was discovered that after a ball and been roughed up one could get more distance out of it. So they started manufacturing them with dimpled covers. So it is with life; it takes some rough spots in your life to make you go your farthest.

APRIL FOOLS – One April Fool’s Day, as Phillips Brooks was walking along Boylston St., Boston, he saw a little fellow trying in vain to reach a door bell. Brooks walked up the steps saying, “Let me help you, my little man!”

He pulled the knob; the boy scampered down the steps saying, “Now run like the devil!”

Source: Parables, Volume 4, No. 1, March 1984

33 thoughts on “Sunday Funnies: May 28”

  17. “So it is with life; it takes some rough spots in your life to make you go your farthest.” So true!

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