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                1) A little girl was talking to her teacher
                about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for
                a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very
                large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated
                that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. 
                Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a
                whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
                The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask
                Jonah". The te acher asked, "What if Jonah went to
                hell?" The little girl replied, "Then you ask
                him." 
                  
                2) A Kindergarten teacher was observing her
                classroom of children while they were drawing. She would
                occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to
                one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the
                drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing God." The
                teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks
                like." 
                Without missing a beat, or looking up from
                her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a
                minute." 
                  
                3) A Sunday school teacher was discussing the
                Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After
                explaining the commandment to "hon or " thy Father and
                thy Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches
                us how to treat our brothers and sisters?" Without missing
                a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered,
                "Thou shall not kill." 
                  
                4) One day a little girl was sitting and
                watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She
                suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white
                hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked
                at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of
                your hairs white, Mom?" 
                Her mother replied, "Well, every time
                that you do someth in g wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of
                my hairs turns white." The little girl thought about this
                revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL
                of grandma's hairs are white?" 
                  
                5) The children had all been photographed,
                and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy
                of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to
                look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer,
                she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.' A small
                voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the
                teacher, she's dead." 
                  
                6) A teacher was giving a lesson on the
                circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she
                said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you
                know, would run into it,and I would turn red in the face."
                "Yes," the class said. "Then why is it that while
                I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't
                run into my feet?" 
                A little fellow shouted, "Cause your
                feet ain't empty." 
                  
                7) The children were lined up in the
                cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head
                of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note,
                and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is
                watching."Moving further along the lunch line, at t he
                other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip
                cookies.A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God
                is watching the apples. 
                  
                
                Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat
                because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking
                place. Looking up to heaven he said, "Lord take pity on me.
                If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday
                for the rest of me life and give up me Irish Whiskey!" 
                Miracu lously, a parking place appeared. 
                Paddy looked up again and said, "Never mind, I found
                one." 
                --- 
                Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal,
                and says to the first man he meets, "Do you want to go to
                heaven?" 
                The man said, "I do, Father." 
                The priest said, "Then stand over there
                against the wall." 
                Then the priest asked the second man,
                "Do you want to go to heaven?" 
                "Certainly, Father," was the man's
                reply. 
                "Then stand over there against the
                wall," said the priest. 
                Then Father Murphy walked up to O'Toole and
                said, "Do you want to go to heaven?" 
                O'Toole said, "No, I don't Father." 
                The priest said, "I don't believe this.
                You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to
                heaven?" 
                O'Toole said, "Oh, when I die, yes. I
                thought you were getting a group together to go right now." 
                --- 
                Gallagher opened the morning newspaper and
                was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died.
                He quickly phoned his best friend, Finney. 
                "Did you see the paper?" asked
                Gallagher. "They say I died!!" 
                "Yes, I saw it!" replied Finney.
                "Where are ye callin' from?" 
                --- 
                An Irish priest is driving down to New York
                and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut. The state trooper
                smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty
                wine bottle on the floor of the car. 
                He says, "Sir, have you been
                drinking?" 
                "Just water," says the priest. 
                The trooper says, "Then why do I smell
                wine?" 
                The priest looks at the bottle and says,
                "Good Lord! He's done it again!" 
                --- 
                Walking into the bar, Mike said to Charlie
                the bartender, "Pour me a stiff one - just had another
                fight with the little woman." 
                "Oh yeah?" said Charlie, "And
                how did this one end?" 
                "When it was over," Mike replied,
                "She came to me on her hands and knees. 
                "Really," said Charles, "Now
                that's a switch! What did she say?" 
                She said, "Come out from under the bed,
                you little chicken." 
                --- 
                Flynn staggered home very late after another
                evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy. He took off his shoes to
                avoid waking his wife, Mary. 
                He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the
                stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but mi sjudged the
                bottom step. As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his
                body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump. A whiskey
                bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially
                painful. 
                Managing not to yell, Flynn sprung up, pulled
                down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his
                butt cheeks were cut and bleeding. He managed to quietly find a
                full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he
                could on each place he saw blood. 
                He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box
                and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed. 
                In the morning, Flynn woke up with searing
                pain in both his head and butt and Mary staring at him from
                across the room. 
                She said, "You were drunk again last
                night weren't you?" 
                Flynn said, "Why you say such a mean
                thing?" 
                "Well," Mary said, "it could
                be the open front door, it could be the broken glass at the
                bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing
                through the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but
                mostly....   it's all those Band-Aids stuck on the
                hall mirror. 
                  
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