>  >   With what they have now, they're encouraging laziness.

 >  GP> What's that then?

 >   Paying them more to stay home than to go to work.

I think veterans SHOULD be getting this deal!

Mostr Commonwealth countries pay a stipend to parenrts to help raise
theirchildren (until age 18, in Canada)

Some, a rare miniority, do think it's a hoib to squirt them out one after the
other for the increased baby bonus cheque each month, & higher welfare, natch

I'm not a cop, so I dn't investigaste rumours of such. I just wish every
parent well on the tough job of raising the next generation. . .

 >   Dumb Criminals 101. 

There's a file on my DOS computer (not hooked up) called exactly that!

 > A.A.A.D.D.- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS!

 > Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.

 > Age-Activated Attention-Deficit Disorder.

Classic -- I knew it well, before I got the name of it in this echo back in
the '90s. . 

 > I take my cheque book off the table,
 > And see that there is only one cheque left.
 > My extra cheques are in my desk in the study,
 > So I go inside the house to my desk where
 > I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking .

Nice! Canadian or UK origin, as cheque is spelled correctly! ;) 

 >   It's like the children's sermon on Easter Sunday...when the preacher
 > asked if they knew what a resurrection was. One little boy said "If
 > you have one for more than 4 hours, you need to go to the hospital!!".
 > It brought the house down in laughter, and the preacher was understandably
 > red as a tomato. 

Like the child who innocently asked, during a srmon, "What is butt dust?"
(after pastor said "Lord, we are but dust in Your sight.")

Another Kindergartner in Sunday scool was asked to define "faith" & answered
"Believing somethiung that you know isn't true."

Of course, too many adults, including her parentsm, think that way. . .

Truthfully the original word in the Bible is "trust"

You trust Whom you know & recognize as your heavenly Father.

Israel didn't have "faith" while traveling in the deserty for 40 years -- 
they had tyrust in the Onme Whose physical presence led the way & Who had 
with great signs, freed them from pharaoh. . . then we have trust in our
parents who tell us of the first-hand bases for the trust in God they have. .
.

Or, one who joins as a convert trusts the friends s/he hears from. . .

The little girl defines "faith" as used today, well enough. . .

I put my trust the One Who has kept me safe to this day, from various threats
& dangers. . .

Innocence. . .

I got very annoyed when I found one of our cats, Steve, perched on a 
manyberry berry pie I had just baked. I was ready to yell at him when my son 
- 12 at the time - exclaimed "Stop Mom! Don't yell... he's just an innocent
Pie Stander!"
Steve was not yelled at.

Q: Which American president was the least guilty?
A: Abraham Lincoln. He was in a cent.

My wife called me up from the animal shelter the other day wanting to adopt a
dog. Since money is tight current, I specifically said "0 canine". Now I'm 
the proud owner of 9 German shepherd pups and will from now on pronounce "0"
as "Zero".






 >  GP> Good thing the areafix dude knew me well, & warned me of a tight*ss
 >  GP> weinie in the group. I told him the joke & he roared! (he has a 
little
 >  GP> girl)

 >   I've heard far worse...it all depends on where your mind is.

 >   In a skit I did for ham radio, it was full of ham radio terms, but 
 > they were also puns. To a non-ham, it wouldn't make much sense, or it
 > sounded downright vulgar. But, to a ham radio operator, they made the
 > connection. Here's the "Readers Digest Version":

 >   I united Ham and Radio in Holy Telephony...and said to Ham that 
 > "You may now kiss the mic". We understand that the reception was 
 > excellent. And, the honeymoon...with details brought to us by a 
 > trusted group of Official Observers...was because he could not 
 > resistor. After turning down the lights, and putting on some soft
 > JT-65 music, Ham and Radio assumed positions of horizontal and
 > vertical polarization, as they got to intimately know each other.
 > They wanted to zero beat their frequencies, as he wanted to work
 > up her sideband. But, they had to be careful to not put the wedding
 > gifts of Morse Keyers where they'd sleep. Otherwise, they'd become
 > infested with bedbugs, and that'd be a real pain in the brass.

 >   Folks wanting the entire version can go to www.qrz.com and search
 > for WX4QZ -- once there, click on the hyperlink, and scroll down to
 > the Ham Radio Humor PDF file. That's not the only thing in there,
 > and it's guaranteed to make one laugh...especially if they're a ham
 > radio operator.

 >  GP> Then he made me the official Mod for the group! *LOL*

 >  GP> Laugh, kukkaburra, laugh!

 >   Revenge is a dish best served cold.

 >   I tell folks that be serious enough to obey the rules, but not
 > so serious as to not have a sense of humor. As Roger Rabbit so
 > rightly noted, "If you don't have a sense of humor, you're better
 > off dead!!". 

 > Daryl

 > ... What is a Zebra?? 25 sizes larger than an "A" bra.
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