Date: December 2, 2004
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Effective January 1, 2005, there will be no more "Joke for Your Day" (JFYD) or "Flint Friday Funny" (FFF). I've thought and prayed about this for six months and it was a difficult decision as I've published the FFF for more than five years and JFYD for nearly three.
Ah, but don't worry, you'll still receive your weekday dose of jokes, thinkers, groaners, and other general observations from yours truly. I'm merely combining both my lists into one new publication I'm calling, simply, "Mark Mail." There are three reasons for this:
1. I'll only have to maintain one
mailing list, instead of two, which will also simplify my web site subscription
page.
2. Those of you who want to receive my posts at work have a better chance
at success since the word "Joke" and "Funny" will be removed from the subject
line.
3. Most importantly, it's a change that more accurately indicates what
the posts have become: a reflection of who I am as a person; my beliefs, my
attitudes, my sense of humor, and my travels through both the World and the
World Wide Web.
The format of the post will remain the same: short stuff Monday through Thursday and a longer piece on Fridays; only the subject line will change. And oh, if you've only been receiving one or the other of my posts, you'll now receive both ... and for no extra charge!
If you get the Flint Friday Funny, you'll see this announcement again tomorrow ... and then again the week after Christmas to pick up any new subscribers I might have between now and then.
Thanks for allowing me this lengthy
interruption. I wanted to give you fair warning of my intentions. (It also makes
the people who run my list server happy.)
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Passing through a small Southern town one evening last December, I was impressed
to see a Nativity Scene that someone had obviously taken great care to build and
had gone to lengths to portray as much detail as possible. It was so beautiful
that I got out of my car to look at it more closely.
One small feature did bother me, however. Each of the Three Wise Men were wearing fire helmets. When I stopped at a local restaurant for coffee, I asked the waitress about this.
She groused at me a little and then said, "Don't you Yankees ever read the Bible? The Scriptures clearly say that the Three Wise Men came from afar."
[Joe's Clean Laffs]
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WISDOM for YOUR DAY: "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned." (Isaiah 9:2)
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Mark!
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