Funnies for Tuesday

In Ojibway lore, Nanabush is the trickster, a character central to many Ojibway stories. Nanapush recognized humor as a powerful tool and used it to cheat death, bring lovers together, to ridicule fate and to transcend sorrow.

The Old Testament references the healing properties of humor: “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” Although our ancestors couldn’t explain it scientifically, they knew intuitively that laughter was good for the body as well as the soul.

In my best effort to help heal what hurts you, to bind up your spirit and to inspire you with a chuckle to continue on this hard road you have to ride. (And as long tradition requires)I offer you a few things I hope will make chuckle a bit as you ride.

Short things you support folks can share over the radios with the teams

Every fight is a food fight…..if you are a cannibal.

Is a hippopotamus really a hippopotomus or just a really cool opotamus?

There was a prison break and I saw a midget climb up the fence. As he jumped down he sneered at me and I thought, well that’s a little condescending.

Did you hear about the dyslexic devil worshipper sold his soul to Santa.

I’m strongly against picket signs, but I don’t know how to show it.

And now because I love you all and wish I could be there to share this with you in person….

This guy was working in a lab which had bred a strain of dolphins that would live forever as long as they were fed seagulls every day. One day the lab ran out of seagulls and the man had to run out and get some. As he neared the beach, he saw a group of lions sleeping in the path. He carefully stepped over them, dashed down to the beach and collected some seagulls, but as he was returning to the lab he was arrested for transporting gulls across sedate lions for immortal porpoises

Today’s prayer is said to be prayed by Pope Francis everyday, as he says..a bit of humor will do us all good..
Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest.
Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it.
Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good
and that doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil,
but rather finds the means to put things back in their place.
Give me a soul that knows not boredom, grumblings, sighs and laments,
nor excess of stress, because of that obstructing thing called “I.”
Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor.
Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy,
and to be able to share it with others. Amen