Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 13, 2006
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters Life) - Looking for safe excitement? November is fig month at the Dull Men’s Club, a place in cyberspace for men who feel "born to be mild" and enjoy watching grass grow and photographing garden sheds.
"Figs are good for you. High fiber and high nutritional value ...
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Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Nov 22, 2005
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Now we know there are more than 9 planets. To date, there are over 200 hundred planets- and astronomers continue to identify more and more. All but nine of them orbit stars other than our sun, but they’re out there. Our God is big. Bigger than earth, bigger, than our solar system, bigger than
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Methodist
Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
COLOSSIANS 1:24 "BAFFLING"
Now I consulted four different sources on this text to see whether there was any consensus among the best scholars and pastors as to what that means. And this comment from Sam Storms, who is one of those best scholars and pastors, pretty much sums it
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Contributed by Tim Adams on Dec 1, 2009
2 Corinthians 7:1,“Let us cleanse ourselves” - that means we would do a good job if we were just as fond of straightening our own selves out as we are to find the faults of others. It is God’s Holy Spirit that will do the work but we must enter in to an active cooperation with God on this matter.
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 15, 2010
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
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 9, 2006
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Mark Twain advised that when a child reaches 13 years of age, a parent should place the child in a BARREL, NAIL the LID shut, and FEED the teenager through a KNOT HOLE. And when the child turns 16 years-old . . . PLUG the HOLE!
Of course, Mark Twain was also the one who
wrote, “When I was 18
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