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Friends e-mail jokes. Lately I got a beaut (see below). When I read it, the bird-twitter outside my window suddenly became laughter. My solar plexus region, which had been feeling like a pair of wet socks forgotten on a closet floor, began to warm up, like you do when you lie in the sun after a long, cold swim. Nothing is more comforting to me than a good joke.

An email “thank you” for a good joke is limited to a few “ha ha ha’s” or “I’m keeping that one” or “you made my day.” If I were a genius, I’d invent the audio e-mail. Here, I could have transmitted a laugh, or better yet, one of a set of canned laughs provided by the software, my email document flashing to the beat of the laugh.

The joke:

A young boy had just gotten his driver's permit and inquired of his father, an evangelist, if they could discuss his use of the car. His father said, "I'll make a deal with you. You bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut, and we'll talk about the car." Well, the boy thought about that for a moment, decided that he'd settle for the offer, and they agreed on it.

After about six weeks, they went into the study, where his father said, "Son, I've been real proud. You've brought your grades up, and I've observed that you have been studying your Bible, and participating a lot more in the Bible study groups. But, I'm still just a little bit disappointed, since you haven't gotten your hair cut."

The young man paused for a moment, and then said, "You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that, and I've noticed, in my studies of the Bible, that Samson had long hair, John the Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair, and there is even a strong argument that Jesus had long hair."

To this his father replied, "Did you also notice that they all walked everywhere they went?"

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The best thank you for a good joke is another good joke. I found a site that stockpiles hundreds of jokes:

http://www.basicjokes.com

or click link on the right to “Basic Jokes online.” Here’s one I found there:



Jesus and Satan

Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who managed to get the most out of his computer. This had been going on for days and God, was tired of hearing all of the bickering.

God said, "Cool it. I am going to set up a test that will run two hours and I will judge who does the better job."

So down they sat at the keyboards and typed away. They moused away. They did spreadsheets, they wrote reports, they sent faxes, they sent out e-mail, they sent out e-mail with attachments, they downloaded, they did some genealogy reports, they made cards, they did every known job. But just a few minutes before the two hours were up, a lightening flashed across the sky. The thunder rolled and the rains came down hard. And of course the electricity went off.

Satan was upset. He fumed and fussed and he ranted and raved, all to no avail. The electricity stayed off. But after a bit, the rains stopped and the electricity came back on. Satan screamed, "I lost it all when the power went off. What am I going to do? What happened to Jesus' work?"

Jesus just sat and smiled.

Again Satan asked about the work that Jesus had done. As Jesus turned his computer back on the screen glowed and when he pushed "print it", it was all there. "How did he do it." Satan asked? God smiled and said, "Jesus Saves."