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A Saint Is …

Saints

“The story is told of a minister who in talking with the children of a congregation asks them what a “saint” is. One of the children looks at the stained glass windows of the church and says, “A saint is a person the sun shines through.”

Various

Riddles

1) My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I’m
often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must
take my bow or else I have nothing to say.
What am I?

2) We travel much, yet prisoners we are, and close confined
to boot. With the swiftest horse we keep pace, yet always
go on foot. What are we???

3) What can wear away stone
with the drip of a stream,
Cripple the oldest of anything?
What will go on forever,
yet never began,
The ruler of the world
with an iron hand?

4) If athletes get athlete’s foot, then what do astronauts get?

5) How does Mickey Mouse get around during the winter?
1) A violin.
2) Spurs
3) Time
4) Mistletoe
5) Mice Skates

Quoted from Sermon_Fodder(at)yahoogroups.com email list

A Common English Word

Riddles

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it. It still remains an English word- from nine letters right down to a single letter.

What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

The word is startling – starting – staring – string – sting – sing – sin – in – I
Quoted from funny(at)153.com email list

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to?

Riddles

You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night. You pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus:

1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect man (or) woman you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car? Think before you continue reading. This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a
job application.

You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first, or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back. However, you may never be able to find your perfect mate again.

The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming up with his answer.

WHAT DID HE SAY?

He answered: I would give the car keys to my old friend, and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman of my dreams.

Quoted from http://www.cybersalt.org email list

Somebody Everybody Anybody & Nobody

Responsibility

There was a most important job that needed to be done,
And no reason NOT to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is WHO exactly will it be who’ll carry OUT the task.

Anybody could have told you that Everybody knew
That this was something SOMEBODY would surely have to do.
Nobody was unwilling. Anybody had the ability.
But NOBODY believed that it was his responsibility.

It seemed to be a job that ANYBODY could have done.
If Anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since Everybody recognized that Anybody could
Everybody took for granted that SOMEBODY would.

But Nobody told Anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And Nobody took it on himself to follow through,
And DO what Everybody thought that Somebody would do.

When what Everybody needed so did not get done at all,
Everybody was complaining that Somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And Everybody looked around for SOMEBODY to blame.

Somebody should have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.
Found on a number of websites and attributed to Charles Osgood

A Story About Four People

Responsibility

This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did.
Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody knew that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Somebody wouldn’t do it.
And it ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody because Nobody did what Anybody could have done.