JOSHUA TIME 937

Children
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> Why do we love children?
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> 1) NUDITY
> I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a
> woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark
> naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from
> the back seat, "Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!"
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> 2) OPINIONS
> On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from
> his mother. The note read, "The opinions expressed by this child are not
> necessarily those of his parents."
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> 3) KETCHUP
> A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her
> struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the
> phone. "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's
> hitting the bottle"
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> 4) MORE NUDITY
> A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker
> room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies
> grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in
> amazement and then asked, "What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a
> little boy before?"
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> 5) POLICE # 1
> While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was
> interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my
> uniform, she asked, "Are you a cop?"
> "Yes," I answered and continued writing the report.
> "My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that
> right?"
> "Yes, that's right," I told her.
> "Well, then," she said as she extended her foot toward me, "would you
> please tie my shoe?"
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> 6) POLICE # 2
> It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the
> station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking,
> and I saw a little boy staring in at me. "Is that a dog you got back
> there?" he asked.
> "It sure is," I replied.
> Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van.
> Finally he said, "What'd he do?"
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> 7) ELDERLY
> While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly
> shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds.
> She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age,
> particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her
> staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself
> for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered,
> "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"
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> 8) DRESS-UP
> A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her
> dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit."
> "And why not, darling?"
> "You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning. "
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> 9) DEATH
> While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister
> heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt.
> Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin.
> Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small
> box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of
> the deceased.
> The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with
> sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always
> said: "Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole
> he goooes." (I want this line used at my funeral!)
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> 10) SCHOOL
> A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just
> wasting my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read, I can't write,
> and they won't let me talk!"
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> 11) BIBLE
> A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered
> through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He
> picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that
> had been pressed in between the pages.
> "Mama, look what I found," the boy called out.
> "What have you got there, dear?"
> With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's
> Adam's underwear!"