January 1 2008

I'm a bit under the weather right now (a virus cold not  a hangover), so I have no brilliant thoughts to share with you today.  Instead, I'll pass along a couple of old jokes.  As ancient as these stories are, I still enjoy them.  I hope you will too.

Joke 1

Harry was having trouble with a sore throat.  His family doctor had retired, so Harry picked a new doctor from the phone book and made an appointment. 

"What seems to be the trouble?" the doctor asked.

"I've got a sore throat," Harry said.

"All right. Go into the next room and take off all of your clothes."

"But, Doc, it's my throat that hurts."

"Look.  I'm the doctor here.  Now, go into the next room and take off all your clothes."

When Harry walked into the adjoining room, he saw another man standing there who was stark naked.

"That doctor is crazy," Harry said.  "I came here with a sore throat and he tells me to take off all my clothes."

"What are you complaining about?" the naked man asked.  "I just came here to deliver a package."

Joke 2

Reverend Jones was very popular with his parishoners because of his excellent sermons.  One day, he was asked to preach about sex from a Christian perspective.  He did just that and his ideas were very well received.

"What was your sermon about today?" his wife asked when he came home.

The Reverend knew that his wife was very conservative about sexual matters and he thought she might be shocked to learn that he'd talked about such things in church, so he decided to tell a fib.

"I preached about sailing," he said.  "Compared life to a voyage and all that."

"That's nice, Dear," his wife said.

The following day, Mrs. Jones met one of the parish ladies at the market.

"That was certainly a wonderful sermon your husband gave yesterday," the lady said.

"Well, I really don't know how much my husband knows about the subject," Mrs. Jones said.  "We've only done it twice.  The first time, he got seasick.  The second time, the wind blew his hat off."

Happy New Year

George

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