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  • The £1.50 Hearing Aid

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 15, 2010
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    THE £1.50 HEARING AID An elderly man stopped at a hearing aid centre and asked about prices. The salesman said, "We have them from £25,000 down to £1.50." "What's the £25,000 one like?" The salesman said, "Well, it translates three languages." "And what about the one for £1.50?" "It's this ...read more

  • Questions That Have Answers

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
     | 1,484 views

    Quote: John J. Plomp "You know that children are growing up when they start asking ...read more

  • Grey Hairs

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
     | 1,515 views

    GREY HAIRS A little girl sat on the bed pestering her mum with questions while mum was in a hurry to get changed and go out. Watching her mother looking in the mirror and plucking out the grey hairs on her head she asked, "Mummy, why do you have some grey hairs?" Her mother replied, "Because ...read more

  • The Cure

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
     | 1,859 views

    THE CURE Mrs Smith was so happy: "I’ve cured my husband of biting his nails." I replied, "How did you manage to do that?" "Simple," ...read more

  • The Man Who Came For The Blind

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
     | 2,883 views

    THE MAN WHO CAME FOR THE BLIND A fellow in our office told us recently of a household incident of which he had been an innocent but perplexed spectator. Our friend had called a Venetian-blind repairman to come pick up a faulty blind, and the next morning, while the family was seated at the ...read more

  • A Lot Better Job

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 6, 2011
     | 1,630 views

    A LOT BETTER JOB A little girl crawled up into her great grandmother's lap one day. And looking up into her great grandmother's face she saw all those lines and wrinkles. Then she felt her own smooth skin. She said to her great grandmother, "Did God make you?" Her great grandmother said, ...read more

  • I Can't Remember

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
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     | 6,491 views

    I CAN'T REMEMBER An elderly man moved into a retirement community. It wasn't long until he had made a number of friends among the other residents. There was one lady he was especially attracted to and she was attracted to him, also. They spent a lot of time together. Finally one evening he ...read more

  • The Here...after

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Sep 4, 2011
     | 1,284 views

    THE HERE...AFTER A vicar was talking to one of his parishioners. He said, "When you get to my age you spend a lot more time thinking about the hereafter." "Why do you say that?" enquires the parishioner. The vicar replies, "Well, I ...read more

  • Whitening Fast

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Feb 13, 2012
     | 3,123 views

    WHITENING FAST When Dr. Rees was waiting to preach, a friend commended to him, "You sure are whitening fast!" He got up and said this from the pulpit: "There is a little white flower that comes up through the earth at this season of the year - sometimes it comes up through the snow and frost; but ...read more

  • 50-Somethings For Jesus

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
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    50-SOMETHINGS FOR JESUS At the age of 58, Tom and Elaine Samply cashed out their retirements and moved to the Czech Republic and opened a coffee shop called Common Grounds where he taught business principles to atheists. After they were there for six years, they had enough business that they ...read more

  • What I Wouldn't Give...

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Mar 29, 2012
     | 2,760 views

    WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE... When Oliver Wendell Holmes was still on the U.S. Supreme Court, he and Justice Louis Brandeis took walks every afternoon. On one of these occasions Holmes, then ninety-two, paused to gaze in frank admiration at a beautiful young girl who passed them. He even turned to look ...read more

  • A Memento  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 13, 2012
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     | 1,009 views

    A MEMENTO Seeing her friend Sally wearing a new locket, Meg asks if there is a memento of some sort inside. "Yes," says Sally, "a lock of my husband's hair." "But Larry's still ...read more

  • Curing Nail-Biting

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 20, 2012
     | 2,129 views

    CURING NAIL-BITING Talking of bad habits I did hear the story of an elderly couple. The wife proudly boasted that "she had cured her husband of biting his nails." When someone asked her, "How did you manage ...read more

  • No Green Bananas

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 29, 2013
     | 1,818 views

    NO GREEN BANANAS Approaching 85 years of age, Mrs. Wells finally decided it was time to give up her home in North Carolina and move to Miami. She was given the name of a Florida realtor, who enthusiastically drove her all over Miami, extolling the virtues of every apartment they looked at. ...read more

  • Only One-Third Of Adult Americans Feel Confident ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,808 views

    Only one-third of adult Americans feel confident about being financially ready for ...read more

  • In '06, Only 31% Of Workers Between Ages 45 And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,701 views

    In '06, only 31% of workers between ages 45 and 54 had more than $100,000 in retirement savings. Another 31% had less than ...read more

  • Cancer Deaths In The U.s. Have Dropped For A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,543 views

    Cancer deaths in the U.S. have dropped for a second straight ...read more

  • Going Home

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 3,708 views

    GOING HOME For the first time since the Depression, more Americans ages 75 and older have been leaving the South than moving there, according to a New York Times analysis of Census Bureau data. The reversal appears to be driven in part by older people who retired to the South in their 60s, but ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Little Girl Who Climbed ...

    Contributed by Skip Alexander on Jun 30, 2008
     | 2,127 views

    There’s a story about a little girl who climbed up on the lap of great-grandmother, looked at her white hair and wrinkles, and then asked, "Did God make you?" "Yes," she said. Then she asked, "Did God make me, too?" Grandma said, "Yes." "Well," ...read more

  • More Than Half The Books Sold In The U.s. In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,193 views

    More than half the books sold in the U.S. in recent years are bought by people over 50, claims Borders ...read more

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