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Jappel, our mom made that joke 17 years ago and I'm still laughing!

🤣 I guess it is somewhat popular?

Idk Jappel, seems like it is a dead giveaway.

Will as in legal document “will” 📃

AllieA cannot answer this.

Does anyone know what a will is?

I am also confused. When Janet 23 put that there I was kinda confused why she even put a very sad chat in a humorous group 🤷🏻‍♂️

rvfc2 - I appreciated the poem by Browning. Thank you.

Janet 23 - I’m puzzled - you indicated cannibalism in the bible at 2 Kings 8:1 but it’s 2 Kings 6:25-31. Or was there something I missed?

I know this is serious in a humorous group, but here is a quote from my college class today:

“If you aren’t willing to follow, you will never be able to lead.”

here is a poem I had to learn in 2nd grade:
fuzzy wuzzy was a bear,
fuzzy wuzzy had no hair,
fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he?

I totally agree. 😁

I just believe that some people don't see the value of our freedom. and if you have ever been to a football game, baseball game, or a rodeo you would understand what i mean of people cant sing it well.

Welcome. Can you specify a little bit on what you meant ?

some people don't really see what that song really means. and some people cant sing it correctly.

The Star-Spangled Banner

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

O thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just;
And this be our motto: "IN GOD IS OUR TRUST!"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Francis Scott Key

You are boring then! :) You got a better one?

.... That was neither.... :'D

"Poetry and Laughs"

That sir... is not poetry....

Who had the first Honda?

The disciples. They were all together in one Accord!

Here is a short humorous story that I found.

One Real Man
The ruler of an ancient kingdom wanted to disprove the statement that the men of his domain were ruled by their wives.
He had all the males in his kingdom brought before him and warned that any man who did not tell the truth would be punished severely.
Then he asked all the men who obeyed their wives direction and counsel to step to the left side of the hall. All the men did so except one little man who moved to the right.
"It's good to see," said the King, "that we have one real man in the kingdom. Tell these chickenhearted dunces why you alone among them stand to the right side of the hall."
"Your Majesty," came the reply in a squealing voice, "it is because before I left home my wife told me to stay out of crowds."
The End
(Author Unknown)

I think this has always been my favorite poem:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Interesting theory. But I do disagree, seeing that the translators were great men of that vocation, and like you said, Shakespeare definitely does not have the style of the KJV. But very interesting!

Did you know that there is a theory that Shakespeare helped translate parts of the OT in the KJV?

The theory goes like this:

1. Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616.
2. The KJV began being translated in 1610.
3. Shakespeare would have been 46 years old at that time.
4. If you count 46 words into Psalm 46, you get the word "shake".
5. If you count 46 words back from the end of that psalm, you find the word "spear."
6. Shakespeare was known to write for King James the monarch.

This is probably just a coincidence, however, for the following reasons:
1. Britannica outright refutes the idea because Shakespeare's style is vastly different from the style of the KJV.
2. You have to omit the word "selah" for the 46 pattern to work.
3. "Shake" and "spear" are used throughout the OT in both the KJV and the Hebrew.
4. Shakespeare's life and the translation of the KJV were both well documented, and neither makes mention of him as a contributor.

This has always been one of my favorites.

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whenever I see evil empires like North Korea and China that try to suppress the free spread of the gospel, I think of this poem. Every great evil empire that has ever existed may be powerful for a time, but they all eventually collapse despite their claims to greatness. And the kingdom of God just keeps on trucking.

Honestly that isn't a joke, that was a reality.

When was baseball first played?

In the big-inning!!!

cannibalism in the Bible 2 Kings 8:1

This is kind of long, but I can't resist sharing one of my favorite poems with those who might appreciate it.

God Thou art Love

If I forget,
Yet God remembers! If these hands of mine
Cease from their clinging, yet the hands divine
Hold me so firmly that I cannot fall;
And if sometimes I am too tired to call
For Him to help me, then He reads the prayer
Unspoken in my heart, and lifts my care.

I dare not fear, since certainly I know
That I am in God’s keeping, shielded so
From all that else would harm, and in the hour
Of stern temptation strengthened by His power;
I tread no path in life to Him unknown;
I lift no burden, bear no pain, alone:
My soul a calm, sure hiding-place has found:
The everlasting arms my life surround.

God, Thou art love! I build my faith on that.
I know Thee who has kept my path, and made
Light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow
So that it reached me like a solemn joy;
It were too strange that I should doubt Thy love.

by Robert Browning

Minutes are Precious (I don't know the author)

Minutes are Precious

They are the building blocks of hours, which are the stuff days are made of.

Days quickly turn into months, months son become years, and years make up a lifetime.

But it all starts with minutes. Waste enough minutes, and you could waste a lifetime.

Here is a version of "Roses are Red, Violets are Blue" that a friend of mine quoted at his grad ceremony.

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue.
I never thought I would graduate,
And neither did you!

At first I thought it was from some Dr. Seuss book
Very Good.

This is a classic from my childhood.

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too
Went for a ride in a flying shoe
"Hooray"
"What fun"
"It's time we flew"
Said Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too

Ickle was captain, and Pickle was crew
And Tickle served coffee and mulligan stew
As higher, and higher
And higher they flew
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too
Over the sun and beyond the blue
"Hold on"
"Stay in"
"I hope we do"
Cried Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle too
Never returned to the world they knew
And nobody knows
What's happened to
Dear Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too

This is from "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein. Best poetry book ever!

Ha, nice!

I am not a big poetry geek, but I have a few sparks here and there. I love scriptural jokes though.
Who were the three shortest people in the Bible?

Can you guess?

Zacchaeus, Knee-high-amiah, and Bildad the Shuhite