Healing with humour: Taking better care of ourselves  =>;-))
http://www.hknet.org.nz/healthNhumour.html
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Laughter Therapy - its no joke:
http://www.healthlibrary.com/reading/yod/march98/news.htm

        So Lord Caitanya is known as the one:

 - hasya-kari  &  hasya-yuk  ==> who laughs & jokes

 - hasya-priya  ==> who is fond of joking

 - hasya-nagara ==> who is the hero of those expert in speaking joking words

 - hasya-grami  &  hasya-kara  ==> is expert at joking

 - pushpa-hasa  ==> whose smile & laugh are as charminng as flowers.

Lord Gauranga's smiling & laughing qualities ki...

                                                ys Radhe Govinda dasa

P.S. One of the qualities of Srimati Radharani is that she is very expert in the art of joking.

"Any gentleman should be a little humorous."

- Srila Prabhupada (Letter to Kurusrestha 75-09-26)(26th Sept 1976)

SOME FACTS ABOUT HUMOUR

"With devotion steeped in love and affection, the yogi should meditate within the core of his heart upon the laughter of Lord Vishnu. The laughter of Vishnu is so captivating that it can be easily meditated upon. When the Supreme Lord is laughing, one can see His small teeth, which resemble jasmine buds rendered rosy by the splendor of His lips. Once devoting his mind to this, the yogi no longer desires to see anything else." ~ S.P., Srimad-Bhagavatam 3-23-33 "Kapila's Instructions on Devotional Service"

SCIENCE - After surgery but prior to the administration of pain medication, patients were told one-liner jokes. Those patients who were exposed to the humor experienced less pain in comparison to the other surgery patients who didn't get a dose of humor as part of their therapy. ~ Summary from study published in  ' Journal of Holistic Nursing'

Medical experts (Dr. Derk & Dr. Wiilliiamsburg) reveal that a powerful laugh will relax tensed muscles, brings more oxygen into the system and more quickly, lowers blood pressure, and offers a free, overall health benefits on many levels! And its free!. (If the FDA could manufacture a medicine like this, they'd charge a bundle.)

Loma Linda University Cali study by Dr. Lee Berk and Dr. Stanley Tan showed that physiological responses that were produced from belly laughter, were the opposite of what is seen in classical stress, thereby offering yet more evidence that laughing produces healthy or positive emotions.

Results of research by Dr. Lee Berk and Dr. Stanley Tan (Loma Linda U of Ca) indicated that after a good belly laugh, there is a general increase in activity within the immune system, such as: increased number and activity level of natural killer cells that attack viral infected cells and some types of cancer and tumor cells.

If it tickles your funny bone then chances are it will reduce the stress in your life and leave your immune system to do its part. This premise has been supported by both the field of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. A recent publication with research data appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Skin welt sizes were compared in patients suffering from severe allergies after one group watched a video featuring Charlie Chaplin and the other group listened to a documentary on weather. Needless to say, the Japanese study confirmed a reduction in skin welt size in the group watching the famed comedian. [FROM CNN.COM]  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, February 13, 2001:

MORE SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS ABOUT LAUGHTER

* Laughter stimulates physical healing.
* Laughter enhances our individual creativity.
* Laughter is rejuvenating and regenerating.
* Laughter is good for relationships (that includes friendships).
* Laughter opens the heart.
* Laughter gives us a glimpse of freedom from the mind. (In other words, helpful for getting off the mental platform!)

~~ Articles by N. Lehrman in Archives of Internal Medicine, April 26,1993; Lee Berk, Dr. P.H. in Loma Linda University School of Medicine News, March 11,1999; N.Silver in American Health, November 1986; J. McCormick in Lancet, August 1994.

"We are less likely to succcummb to feelings of depression and helplessness if we are able to laugh at what is troubling us. Humor gives us a sense of perspective on our problems. Laughter provides an opportunity for the release of those uncomfortable emotions which, if held inside, may create biochemical changes that are harmful to the body." Patty Wooten, author of 'Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Guidelines to Success'

SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS - Controlled studies have given evidence that a good belly laugh has lowered serum cortisol levels, increased amounts of activated T lymphocytes, increased number and activity of natural killer cells, and increased the number of T cells that have helper/ suppresser receptors. Or to sum it up: laughter off-sets the immunosuppressive effects of stress and is therefore significantly improves the health of the immune system. - Discoveries by Dr. Berk and Dr. Tan, Loma Linda University.

Evidence (from EEG) revealed that when a joke is just about to be told, the initial anticipation results in  the brains cortex's left hemisphere starting the function of analyzing of word processing. Next, most brain activity moved to the frontal lobe (the center of emotions). After that, the right hemisphere's synthesis mix with the left's processing to look for and locate the pattern or to be able to "get" the joke. Very quickly following, though just prior to the persons had quite enough time to laugh, brain waves increase and spread to   the occipital lobe which is the sensory processing areas of the brain. There was an increase in fluctuations of delta waves which reached a crescendo of activity and crested as the brain 'got' the joke followed by the recipient beginning of laughter. So here you have 'scientific' knowledge how laughter works, integrating the brain and getting it to all function together, thanks to Dr. Derk & Dr. Williamsburg. Now, stop analyzing and start laughing! :-) You have facts that it's actually beneficial for a variety of health issues, so don't minimize its importance and start giving yourself permission to take out time each day to laugh.  Like a vitamin or even a meal, it's a necessity!

Courtesy of mother Pritaa ACBSP's site http://www.geocities.com/priitaa108/humor.htm

Laugh Yoga with Bir Krishna Goswami

Laugh Yoga during a picnic in Helsinki
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2932828682381191751

Laugh Yoga with Master Laugh Therapist BK Goswami - Laugh Yoga at It's Best In Split Croatia - 1 hr 41 min 49 sec - Aug 30, 2007
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5224249030279265816

This is a MUST READ =>;-Q
http://www.digitalsawdust.com

Four Wives parable:
http://www.hknet.org.nz/4wives.pps

The sound of one hand clapping !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8muy8XHN52I

sent in by Jayasri mataji - Auckland

 Click on this link to see how really short life is.
http://www.sastradana.com/video/lifeisshort.wmv

sent in by Shyamasundar prabhu ACBSP

Angry mouths flip out at a Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym9hMtpk9d4

12 days of Xmas Indian style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owK5tHjL0aE

.....if I were a terrorist:
http://www.thepostmanscorner.net/da/movies1972.html

Complex Karmas video clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc

Said the doctor who treats anorexics says, "My patients are wearing thin."

Word Power - New Words for the Week

1) Arachnoleptic fit (n.) The frantic dance perfor- med just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

2) Beelzebug (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at 3 in the morning and cannot be cast out.

3) Bozone (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.

4) Cashtration (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

5) Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a bug in the fruit you're eating.

6) Decaflon (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

7) Dopelar effect (n.) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when you come at them rapidly.

8) Extraterrestaurant (n.) An eating place where you feel you've been abducted and experimented upon.

9) Hemaglobe (n.) The bloody state of the world.

10) Intaxication (n.) Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to to start with.

I'm sure you will know more too, send 'em in if you like 

Q. What do fishermen and hypochondriacs have in common?

A. They don't really have to catch anything to be happy.

his preaching is very "under-cover"

A teenage girl had just been given family-car privileges. One Friday night she returned home very late from a party.

The next morning her father went out to the driveway to get the newspaper and came back into the house frowning.

At 11:30am the girl sleepily walked into the kitchen, and her father asked her, "What time did you get in last night?"

"Not too late, Dad." she replied nervously.

Dead-panned, her father said, "Then I'll have to talk with the paperboy about putting my paper under the front tire of the car."

TV NZ weather boo boo

Suneela Shashi was planning a career in biology but was not looking forward to taking chemistry.
 
The professor, though, made the course interesting with his many small chemical explosions and crazy chemistry quizzes.
 
Once, he posed the question: "What in the world isn't chemistry?" and offered a prize to the student who correctly answered.
 
A couple of weeks passed. Finally, he announced in class that he had a winner.
 
A student had gone to his office to ask if she could try her hand at the question. "'What in the world isn't chemistry?'" she asked.
 
"My relationship with my last boyfriend...that wasn't chemistry."
 
By default, she won.

Todays legal justice system - Duh!

After a two-week criminal trial in a very high profile bank robbery case, the judge turns to the jury foreman and asks, "Has the jury reached a verdict in this case?"

"Yes, we have, your honor," the foreman responded.

"Would you please pass it to me," the judge declared, as he motioned for the bailiff to retrieve the verdict slip from the foreman and deliver it to him.

After the judge reads the verdict himself, he delivers the verdict slip back to his bailiff to be returned to the foreman and instructs the foreman,
"Please read your verdict to the court."

"We find the defendant Not Guilty of all four counts of bank robbery," stated the foreman.

The family and friends of the defendant jump for joy at the verdict and hug each other as they shout expressions of divine gratitude.

The man's attorney turns to his client and asks, "So, what do you think about that?"

The defendant, with a bewildered look on his face turns to his attorney and says, "I'm real confused here.  Does this mean that I have to give all the money back?"

Dad's part in making babies...

My two daughters were having a discussion about family resemblance.

"I look like Mom," said my nine-year-old, "but I have Dad's eyes and Dad's lips."

The six-year-old said, "And I look just like Dad but I have light hair."

Then she turned to me. "Mom," she asked, "what does Dad have to do with us being born, anyway?"

Her older sister jumped right in: "Don't be stupid, Christina.  Dad is the one who drove Mom to the hospital."

sent in by Patricia

Glad she didn't buy a keg
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sideswipe/news/article.cfm?c_id=702&objectid=10602791&ref=emailfriend

A Bournemouth mother shopping with her 14-year-old son was told she couldn't give him a heavy shopping bag to carry - because it contained a bottle of wine. Gill Power-Forward had just finished at the check-out at the Canford Heath Asda store and was handing the heavier of the two bags to her strapping teenage son Andrew to take to the car. But she was stunned to be told by the cashier that she must carry the bag herself because it had the bottle of wine in it and her son might drink it. She said she thought it was a joke - but the cashier said that was policy. (Source: Bournemouthecho.co.uk)

sent in by Gary Kearns - Thanx

Here's some more Politically Correctness in action http://independentsources.com/category/politically-correct-and-stupid/

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f1/politically-correct-just-plain-stupidity-147100/
 

A poodle and a collie are walking together when the poodle suddenly unloads on his friend.

"My life is a mess," he says. "My owner is mean, my girlfriend ran away with a schnauzer, and I'm as jittery as a cat."

"Why don't you go see a psychiatrist?" suggests the collie.

"I can't," says the poodle. "I'm not allowed on the couch."

oh you are in a bad way..........

sent in by Yolande Manson - TNG

  Did you ever wonder? 

Fashion Gangtas

Wazup - 2 up

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

A British insurance company has cancelled what may have been the most bizarre insurance policy in Britain. In the policy, three sisters in the Scottish highlands, who apparently were members of a "Christian group" of some sort, had insured their virginity for $1 million, against the event of any of them immaculately conceiving the second coming of Jesus Christ. Essex-based www.Britishinsurance.com confirmed it had provided the policy.

The burden of proof that it was Christ had rested with the women and any premium on the insurance was donated to charity.  The siblings had paid $100 annually since 2000. If they had secured a payout, they stood to receive $1 millions. The policy was apparently cancelled partly because of complaints from the Catholic Church, which doesn't look kindly on unauthorized immaculate conceptions.

After starting a new diet, I altered my drive to work to avoid passing my favorite bakery.

I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning and as I approached, there in the window were a host of goodies.

I felt this was no accident, so I prayed, "Lord, it's up to you, if you want me to have any of those delicious goodies,
create a parking place for me directly in front of the bakery."

And sure enough, on the eighth time around the block, there it was!

God is good!

sent in by Shahin - Auckland

This is what tolerance looks like

sent in by Shyamasundar prabhu ACBSP

A busload of politicians were driving down a country road when, all of a sudden,
the bus ran off the road and crashed into a tree in an old farmer's field.

The old farmer, after seeing what happened, went over to investigate.
He then proceeded to dig a hole and bury the politicians.

A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus and asked the old farmer where all the politicians had gone.

The old farmer said he had buried them.

The sheriff asked the old farmer, "Were they ALL dead?"

The old farmer replied, "Well, some of them said they weren't, but you know how them politicians lie."

I was helping a buddy of mine, who was an orthopedic surgeon, move to his new office,
and using my car to help transport some of his office equipment.

I had decided to position his somewhat fragile display skeleton strapped into the back seat of my car,
his bony arm across the back of my seat...

At one traffic light, the stares of the people in the car beside me became quite obvious.
 
I looked across and explained, "I'm delivering him to a doctor's office."

The other driver leaned out of his window. and commented, "I hate to tell you, but I looks like you may be a bit too late!"



A disappointed salesman of Pepsi returns from his Middle East assignment. A friend asked, "Why weren't you successful with the Arabs?"

The salesman explained, "When I got posted in the Middle East, I was Very confident that I will make a good sales pitch as Pepsi is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn't know how to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters...

First poster, a man crawling through the hot desert sand... totally exhausted and panting. Second, the man is drinking our Pepsi and Third, our man is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the place"

"That should have worked," said the friend.

The salesman replied, "Well, not only did I not speak Arabic, I also didn't realize that Arabs read from right to left..."

sent in by Shyamasundar prabhu ACBSP

What do Alexander the Great, Jack the ripper, and Kermit the Frog have in common?

Their middle name

What does DNA stand for?

National Association of Dyslexics...



Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

A gift from a Buddhist for Xmas

Example of positive attitude:

Baby of mosquito came back after 1st flying experience.

Dady mosquito asked? How do you feel?

Baby replied : It was wonderful, everyone was clapping for me, and waving....

The ways of this material world - strange but true


An American visiting in England asked at the hotel for the elevator.

The porter looked a bit confused, but smiled when he realized what the man wanted. "You must mean the lift."

"No, if I ask for the elevator, I mean the elevator."

"Well, over here, we call them lifts."

"Now, you listen here my English friend. Someone in America invented the elevator."

"Oh, right you are, sir. But someone here in England invented the English language"

A Sunday School teacher of pre-schoolers told her students that she wanted each of them to have learned one fact about  Jesus by the next Sunday.

The following week she asked each child in turn what they  had learned.

Susie said, "He was born in a manger."

Bobby said, "He threw the money changers out of the temple."

Little Johnny said, "He has a red pickup truck but he doesn't  know how to drive it."

Curious, the teacher asked, "And where did you learn that,  Johnny?"

"From my Daddy," said Johnny. "Yesterday we were driving down  the highway, and this red pickup truck pulled out in front of  us and Daddy yelled at him, 'Jesus Christ! Why don't you  learn how to drive?'"

I don't think I'll ever have a mother's intuition.  My sister left me alone in a restaurant with my 10-month-old nephew. I said, "What do I do if he cries?"

She said, "Give him some vegetables."

It turns out that jalapeno is not his favorite.

There was a farmer who had many pigs. One day someone went to the farm and asked the farmer, "What do you use to feed your pigs?"

"Well, I give them acorn, corn, and things like that. Why?"

"Because I am from the Animals Protection Association and I think you don't feed them like you should, they shouldn't eat wastes." Then he fined the farmer.

Some days later, another person arrived and asked the same question.

The farmer answered, "Well, I feed them very well. I give them salmon, caviar, shrimp, steak... why?"

"Because I am from the United Nations Organization and I think it's unfair that you feed your pigs like that when there are people dying with nothing to eat."
And he fined the farmer.

Finally, another man came in and asked just the same question. The hesitant farmer answered after a few minutes:
"Well, I give five dollars to each pig so they can buy whatever they want."



The surgeon told his patient that woke up after having been operated:

"I'm afraid we're going to have to operate you again. Because, you see, I forgot my rubber gloves inside you."

"Well, if it's just because of them, I'd rather pay you for the glovesd, if you just leave me alone."

The Preacher came to call the other day.  He said at my age, I should be thinking about the hereafter.

       With my years gradually slipping by and memory fading, I told him, "Oh, I do all the time.  No matter where I am...in the lounge, upstairs, in the kitchen, or down in the basement, I ask myself, 'Now, what am I here after?'"

Not the yuga dharma

Story with a moral

A priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician and member of the congregation was chosen to make the presentation and give a little speech at the dinner. He was delayed, so the priest decided to say his own few words while they waited.

"I got my first impression of the parish from the first confession I heard here. I thought I had been assigned to a terrible place. The very first person who entered my confessional told me he had stolen a television set and, when questioned by the police, was able to lie his way out of it. He had stolen money from his parents, embezzled from his employer, had an affair with his boss's wife, taken illegal drugs, and gave VD to his sister. I was appalled. But as the days went on I knew that my people were not all like that and I had, indeed, come to a fine parish full of good and loving people.".... .

Just as the priest finished his talk, the politician arrived full of apologies at being late. He immediately began to make the presentation and gave his talk.

"I'll never forget the first day our parish priest arrived," said the politician.
"In fact, I had the honor of being the first one to go to him in
confession."

Moral: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER BE LATE

Scary words...

"Hi...I'm from the  government and I'm here to help you"
James

.......more optical illusions and paradigm twists here:

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. Two of the science's most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (L'Histoire generale des animaux and A History of Animated Nature) that the domestic cow sheds its horn every two years.

Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/devilsdictionary/

A man rushed into a busy doctor's office and shouted "Doctor ! Doctor ! I think I'm shrinking!!"
The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle down. You'll just have to be a little patient."

A coffee addict

A man is walking in a graveyard when he hears the Third Symphony played backward.

When it’s over, the Second Symphony starts playing, also backward, and then the First.

"What’s going on?" he asks a cemetery worker.

"It’s Beethoven," says the worker. "He’s decomposing."

only in India

Slightly Worn

"For sale," read the ad in our hospital’s weekly newsletter, "sleeveless wedding gown, white, size 8, veil included. Worn once, by mistake."

Elizabeth Evans

from Reader's Digest

An American tourist asks an Australian:
"Why do Scuba divers always fall backwards off their boats?"

To which the Aussie replies:
"If they fell forwards they'd still be in the flamin' boat mate."

Did you hear about the boy from  a cannibal family who was suspended from school.

Yeah, apparently he was trying to butter up his teacher.

Cuts in Military spending

A kindergarten teacher asked, "What is the shape of the earth ?"

One lil' girl spoke up: "According to my Daddy -- terrible !"

Don't believe everything you see on Facebook

Did you hear about the cannibal policeman who was arrested?
He was caught grilling his suspects.



During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password for her computer:
MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy
When the auditor asked why she had such a long password, she said,
"Hellllooooooooo! The tech support guy said that it had to be at least eight characters long."

Sunil Agarwal jnr. came home with great excitement, saying,
"Dad! Dad! Coming back from the bazaar, I ran home behind the bus all the way and saved the eight Rupees fare.

His father Sunil Agarwal Sr. chided him, and shouted, "You non-sense spendthrift! Why didn't you run behind a taxi cab and save Rs. 50.00?"

An excellent Xmas gift, as a role model for our young daughters

It was the morning after the consummation of the marriage of two senior citizens. The new bride awoke purring.
Hearing her husband running water in the bathroom, she said, "Did you just brush your teeth?"

The husband answered, "Yes, dear. And while I was at it, I brushed yours too."

Friday evening traffic on the Red sea

I was talking to a young guy about identifying ourselves as the spirit soul.
So I was making a point how we say my self indicating that we the soul are the possesor of the body. And that we never say I hand or I head, or I leg do we? no because we the soul are the possesor of the hand, or head, or leg. I was asking him where he then thinks he, the self is located in his body.
His immediate response was "In my genitals !!"
"haha okay what makes you say that?" I asked
He said, "Well I was down the beach naked last week, and people kept saying to me 'cover yourself' "

Praying Mantis chanting Gauranga

Two elderly ladies meet at the launderette after not seeing one another for some time.

After inquiring about each other's health one asked how the other's husband was doing.

"Oh! Ted died last week. He went out to the garden to dig up a cabbage for dinner, had a heart attack and dropped down dead right there in the middle of the vegetable patch!"

"Oh dear! I'm very sorry." replied her friend "What did you do?"

"Opened a can of peas instead."

Ghetto fashion - like keeping it real fo sho - yo

When we brought our new-born son to the pediatrician for his first checkup, the doctor said, "You have a cute baby."

Smiling, I said, "I'll bet you say that to all the new parents."

"No," he replied, "just to those whose babies are really good-looking."

"So what do you say to the others?" I asked.

"He looks just like you."

A sixteen year-old boy came home with a new Chevrolet Avalanche and his parents began to yell and scream,
'Where did you get that truck???!!!' He calmly told them, 'I bought it today.'

'With what money?' demanded his parents. They  knew what a Chevrolet Avalanche cost.

'Well,' said the boy, 'this one cost me just fifteen dollars.' So the parents began to yell even louder.
'Who would sell a truck like that for fifteen dollars?' they said.

'It was the lady up the street,' said the boy.  I don't know her  name - they just moved in.
She saw me ride past on my bike and asked me if I wanted to buy a Chevrolet Avalanche for fifteen dollars.'

'Oh my Goodness!,' moaned the mother, 'she must be a child abuser. Who knows what she will do next?  John, you go right up there and see what's going on.' So the boy's father walked up the street to the house where the lady lived and found  her out in the yard calmly planting petunias!

He introduced himself as the father of the boy to whom she had sold a new Chevrolet Avalanche for fifteen dollars and demanded to know why she did it.

'Well,' she said, 'this morning I got a phone call from my husband.  (I thought he was on a business trip, but learned from a friend he had run off to Hawaii with his mistress and really doesn't intend to come back).

He claimed he was stranded and needed cash, and asked me to sell his new Chevrolet Avalanche and send him the money.
So I did.'

and just when you think you'd seen everything...........

An old man visits his doctor and after thorough examination the doctor tells him: "I have good news and bad news, what would you like to hear first?"

Patient: "Well, give me the bad news first."

Doctor: "You have cancer, I estimate that you have about two years left."

Patient: "OH NO! That's awefull! In two years my life will be over! What kind of good news could you probably tell me, after this???"

Doctor: "You also have Alzheimer's. In about three months you are going to forget everything I told you."



Grandma is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. She writes:

Dear Grand-daughter,
 
The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a
'Honk if you love Jesus' bumper sticker ..
 
I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting.
 
So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.

Boy, am I glad I did; what an uplifting experience that followed.
 
I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn't notice that the light had changed.
 
It  is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn't honked,  I'd never have noticed.
 
I found that lots of people love Jesus!
 
While I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed,
'For the love of God!' 'Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO!'
 
What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus!
 
Everyone started honking!
 
I just leaned out my window and started waving and smiling at all those loving people.
 
I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!;

There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach.
 
I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the  air.
 
I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant.
 
He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.
 
Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii , so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign right back.
 
My grandson burst out laughing.
 
Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!!

A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me.
 
I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed.
 
So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters, and drove on through  the intersection.
 
I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of sad
that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared.
 
So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away.
Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!!

sent in by Achyuta Radhika dd



The National Institute of Health (NIH) announced last week that they were going to start using lawyers instead of rats in their experiments. Naturally, the American Bar Association was outraged and filed suit. Yet, the NIH presented some very good reasons for the switch.

1. The lab assistants were becoming very attached to their little rats. This emotional involvement was interfering with the research being conducted.
No such attachment could form for a lawyer.

2. Lawyers breed faster and are in much greater supply.

3. Lawyers are much cheaper to care for and the humanitarian societies won't jump all over you no matter what you're studying.

4. There are some things even a rat won't do.

sent in by Shyamasundar prabhu ACBSP



Asked to write a composition entitled, "What I'm thankful for on Thanksgiving," little Timothy wrote, "I am thankful that I'm not a turkey."



A slice of pizza is in the stomach, waiting to be digested.

Suddenly, a shot of whiskey barrels down. The pizza lets it pass in front of him.

A  few minutes later, another shot of whiskey comes through.

Courteously, the pizza lets it pass in front of him too.

A few minutes later, a third shot of whiskey tumbles into the stomach.

The pizza asks they whiskey, "What's going on up there?"

"They're having a really great Xmas party", says the whiskey.

"Really? responds the pizza. "I think I'll go up there and take a look".

Bobby and Ralph were walking home from Sunday School, each deep in his own thoughts.

Finally Ralph said, "What do you think about all this devil stuff we studied today?"

Bobby replied thoughtfully, "Well, you know how Santa Claus turned out. This is probably just your Dad, too..

Yo ho ho homy Santa's in da 'hood

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