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IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER - by Erma Bombeck 
(Written after she found out she was dying from cancer.) 

I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. 
I would have eaten the popcorn in the 'good' living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace. 
I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth. 
I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband. 
I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed. 
I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains. 
I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life. 
I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil, or was guaranteed to last a lifetime. 
Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. 
When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now go get washed up for dinner." 
There would have been more "I love you's." More "I'm sorry's." But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it live it ... and never give it back. 


A GIFT FOR MOTHER
Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts that they were able to give to their elderly mother.
The first said, "I built a big house for our mother."
The second said, "I sent her a Mercedes with a driver."
The third smiled and said, "I've got you both beat. You know how Mom enjoys the Bible and you know she can't see very well. I sent her a brown parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took 20 monks in a monastery 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000 a year for 10 years, but it was worth it. Mom just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot will recite it."
Soon thereafter, Mom sent out her letters of thanks: 
She wrote the first son, "Milton, the house you built is so huge I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house." She wrote the second son, "Marvin, I am too old to travel I stay home all the time, so I never use the Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!" She wrote the third son, "Dearest Melvin, you were the only son to have the good sense to know what your mother likes. The chicken was delicious.

 
TEACHERS VS. EDUCATORS 
     A private school in Victoria, B.C., Canada, recently was faced with a unique problem.
     A number of 12 year old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on while in the bathroom. That was fine, but 
after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror, leaving dozens of little lip prints.  Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back.  Finally the principal decided that something had to be done.
     She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.  To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.
     He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. 
     Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.   Just goes to show -- There are teachers, and then there are EDUCATORS.

    
THE INHERITANCE
     Due to inherit a fortune when his sickly, widower father died, Charles decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with.  Going to a singles bar, he spotted a woman whose beauty took his breath away.  "I'm just an ordinary man," he said, walking up to her, "but in just a week or two, my father will die and I'll inherit 20 million dollars."
     The woman went home with Charles.  Four days later, she became his stepmother.


FROM THE KIDS
A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here," she said, "He would say, 'Let my brother have the first pancake. I can wait.'" Kevin turned to his younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus."

A father was at the beach with his children when his four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore, where a seagull lay dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked. "He died and went to Heaven," the dad replied. The boy thought a moment and then said, "Did God throw him back down?"

After the church service a little boy told the pastor, "When I grow up, I'm going to give you some money." "Well, thank you," the pastor replied, "but why?" "Because my daddy says you're one of the poorest preachers we've ever had." 

A wife invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?" "I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied. "Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife answered. The daughter bowed her head and said, "Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?"

A mother was teaching her three-year-old The Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, the child repeated it after the mother. Then one night the child was ready to solo. The mother listened with pride to the carefully enunciated words, right up to the end. "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us some e-mail"... 

A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, and looked at the old pages as he turned them. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible, and he picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that had been pressed in between the pages.  "Momma, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked. With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered "I think it's Adam's suit!"

A three-year-old boy went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother,"There were 2 boy kittens and 2 girl kittens." "How did you know?" his mother asked. "Daddy picked them up and looked underneath," he replied. "I think it's printed on the bottom."

A mother and her young son returned from the grocery store and began putting away the groceries. The boy opened the box of animal crackers and spread them all over the table. "What are you doing?" his mother asked. "The box says not to eat them if the seal is broken" the boy explained. "I'm looking for the seal."
 

ACTUAL HEADLINES
Include Your Children when Baking Cookies 
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers 
Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted 
Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case 
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms 
British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands 
Eye Drops Off Shelf 
Enraged Cow Injures Farmer With Ax 
Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told 
Miners Refuse to Work after Death 
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant 
Stolen Painting Found by Tree 
Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years in Checkout Counter

One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.  Finally, he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be filled in anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. Realizing what was happening, the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly. Then, a few shovelfuls later, he quieted down completely. The farmer peered down into the well and was astounded by what he saw. With every shovelful of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt. As
the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.

Pretty soon, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off, to the shock and astonishment of all the neighbors!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt.  The trick to getting out of the well is to not let it bury you, but to shake it off and take a step up.

Count the # of F's in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

There are 6. Read it again.



CHRISTMAS CAKE RECIPE (Read directions carefully)
1 cup of water 
1 tsp baking soda 
1 cup of sugar 
1 tsp salt 
1 cup of brown sugar 
lemon juice 
4 large eggs 
nuts 
1 bottle Vodka 
2 cups of dried fruit 

Directions:
Sample the vodka to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the vodka again. 
To be sure it is the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. 
Repeat. 
Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. 
Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. 
At this point it's best to make sure the vodka is shtill OK. Try another cup... just in case. 
Turn off the mixerer. 
Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. 
Pick fruit off floor. 
Mix on the turner 
If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers pry it loose with a drewscriver. 
Sample the vodka to check for tonsisticity. 
Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who giveshz a s---? 
Check the vodka. 
Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. 
Add one table. 
Add a poon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. 
Greash the oven and pesh in the fridge. 
Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. 
Don't forget to beat off the turner. 
Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the vodka. Fall into bed. 
CHERRY MISTMAS!

 

BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW THAT...
It is impossible to lick your elbow. 
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out. 
A shrimp's heart is in their head. 
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky standing on all four. 
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. 
Rats and horses can't vomit. 
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. 
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second. 
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out. 
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. 
Most lipstick contains fish scales. (Now that's just gross.)
Cat's urine glows under a black-light. 
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

 

LIFE AS A BEAR
If you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could do that. 
Before you hibernate, you're supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could do that, too. 
If you're a mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat 
them too. I could do that.
If you're a female bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. 
He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat. 
I wanna be a bear.

 

ANOTHER DUMB BLONDE JOKE (sigh)
A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he's doing a show in a small town in Arkansas. With his dummy on his
knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde woman in the 4th row stands on her chair and starts shouting: "I've heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person's hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It's guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person. Because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes, but women in general...and all in the name of humor!" 
The embarrassed ventriloquist begins to apologize, when the blonde yells, "You stay out of this, mister! I'm talking to that little creep on your knee!


 

CHURCH BULLETINS

Announcement in the church bulletin for a National PRAYER FASTING Conference: "The cost for attending the Fasting and Prayer conference includes meals."

Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands.

The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.

The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water" The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus"

Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.

Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.

Don't let worry kill you off -- let the Church help.

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?"  Come early and listen to our choir practice.

Eight new choir robes are needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

The senior choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning to join the choir.

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.

Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.

Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church.  Please use large double door at the side entrance.

LIFE IS UNFAIR
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.  I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time, what do you get at the end of it?  A death.  What's that, a bonus?!?
I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way.
Then you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for High School.
You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back, you spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, then you finish off with a bang. 

ODD STUFF
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. 
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. 
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better. 
Coca-Cola was originally green. 
It is impossible to lick your elbow. 
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska 
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% 
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% 
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. 
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. 
The youngest pope was 11 years old. 
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. 
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. 
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. 
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? Their birthplace 
Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? Obsession 
If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand 
What is the only food that doesn't spoil? Honey 
There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? Father's Day 
What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?  He was allergic to carrots.  
What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? Snoop in your medicine cabinet.  

TONY THE TIGER PUZZLE

     A brunette calls her boyfriend and says, "Please come over here and help me.  I have a jigsaw puzzle but I can't figure out how to get it started."

     Her boyfriend asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"

     The brunette says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a tiger."

     Her boyfriend goes over to help with the puzzle.  He studies the pieces for a moment, then turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a tiger."

     He held her hand, sat her in a chair and said, "Secondly, I'd advise you to relax.  Let's have a cup of coffee, and then (he sighs, and says), "Let's put all these Frosted Flakes back in the box."

PUN INTENDED...
1. Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at them and says, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, only one carrion allowed per passenger." 

2. Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils. 

3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it, too. 

4. A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He slides up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw." 

5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? He wanted to transcend dental medication. 

6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer." 

7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal." 

8. These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competitionwas unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thugin town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars. 

9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him... what? (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good) A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. 

10. And finally, there was a man who sent ten different puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did. 

TALKING DOG FOR SALE
   A man sees a sign at a house that says, "FOR SALE. TALKING DOG." He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the backyard.
   The guy goes into the backyard and sees a black mutt just sitting there.
   "You talk?" he asks.
   "Yep," the mutt replies.
   "So, what's your story?"
   The mutt looks up and says, "Well, I discovered my gift of talking pretty young and I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA about my gift, and in no time they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable spies eight years running. The jetting around really tired me out, and I knew that I wasn't getting any younger and I wanted to settle down. So I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security work, mostly wandering near
suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings there and was awarded a batch of medals. Had a wife, a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired."
   The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
   The owner says, "Ten dollars."
   The guy says, "This dog is amazing. Why on earth are you selling him, so cheap?"
   The owner replies, "He's just a big liar. He didn't do any of that stuff."

Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children"
-Unknown

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house,"
-Rod Stewart

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan."
-Whitney Brown

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