The Hometown Treasure July 2011 | Page 6

July 2011 M USINGS FROM by Maggie Glick AGGIE Phone: 260-463-4901 • Fax 888-439-6528 • The Hometown Treasure When nephews Mel and Pat moved me from Greencroft in Goshen to Life Care Center in LaGrange, in February, they brought me a stack of my humor books. Here's one from World's Greatest Collection of Church Jokes, compiled and edited by Paul M. Miller: A little girl sat on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time she'd reach up and touch his wrinkled cheek. Then she'd touch her own cheek thoughtfully. "Grandpa, did God make you?" "Yes. Sweetheart," he answered. "God made me a long time ago." "Did God make me too?" she asked. "Yes, indeed, honey" he answered. "God made you just a little while ago." She touched his face again, and then her own. "He's getting better at it, isn't He?" she asked. I will also share some from Jolly Jokes for Older Folks by Bob Phillips: From the same book: You can always tell who is the host at a party. He's the one watching the clock. On the day after Christmas in San Francisco, a pastor was outside checking the manger scene on the front lawn and noticed the Christ Child And another: You know you’re getting old when your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the candles. Ronald L. Denton D.D.S. P.C. 612 South Detroit Street LaGrange, IN 46761 260.463.2111 Page 6 figure was missing. Right on cue, he turned to see a little boy with a red wagon coming down the street and in the wagon was the figure of the infant Jesus. The pastor walked up to the boy and asked, "Well, young man, where did you pick up your passenger?" "I got Him here, from the church." "And why did you take Him?" The little boy replied, "Well, about a week before Christmas I prayed to the little Lord Jesus, and I told Him if He would bring me a red wagon for Christmas, I would give Him a ride around the block on it."