Silly Joke Friday

Silly Joke #1

Lost on a rainy night, a nun stumbles across a monastery and requests shelter there. Fortunately, she’s just in time for dinner and was treated to the best fish and chips she’s ever had. After dinner, she goes into the kitchen to thank the chefs. She is met by two brothers, “Hello, I’m Brother Michael, and this is Brother Charles.” “I’m very pleased to meet you. I just wanted to thank you for a wonderful dinner. The fish and chips were the best I’ve ever tasted. Out of curiosity, who cooked what?” Brother Charles replied, “Well, I’m the fish friar.” She turns the other brother and says, “Then you must be…?” “Yes, I’m the chip monk.”

Silly Joke #2

A father put his three-year-old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which she ended by saying, “God bless Mommy, God bless daddy, God bless grandma and good-bye grandpa.” The father asked, “Why did you say good-bye grandpa?” The little girl said, “I don’t know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do.” The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence. A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers, which went like this: “God bless Mommy, God Bless daddy, and good-bye grandma.” The next day the grandmother died. “Oh, my gosh”, thought the father, “this kid is in contact with the other side.” Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say: “God bless Mommy and good-bye daddy.” He practically went into shock. He couldn’t sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch sent in and watched the clock. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound. Finally, midnight arrived, he breathed a sigh of relief and went home. When he got home his wife said “I’ve never seen you work so late, what’s the matter?” He said, “I don’t want to talk about it, I’ve just spent the worst day of my life.” She said, “You think you had a bad day, you’ll never believe what happened to me. This morning the mailman dropped dead on our porch.”

Silly Joke #3

This lady found out her dog could hardly hear so she took it to the veterinarian. He found that the problem was hair in its ears. He cleaned both ears and the dog could hear fine. The vet then proceeded to tell the lady that if she wanted to keep this from recurring she should go to the store and get some “Nair” hair remover and rub it in the dog’s ears once a month. The lady goes to the drug store and gets some “Nair” hair remover. At the register the druggist tells her, “If you’re going to use this under your arms don’t use deodorant for a few days.” The lady says: “I’m not using it under my arms.” The druggist says: “If you’re using it on your legs don’t shave for a couple of days.” The lady says: “I’m not using it on my legs either; if you must know, I’m using it on my schnauzer.” The druggist says: “You may want to stay off your bicycle for at least a week then!”

Bonus Silly Joke

My boss texted me, “Send me one of your funny jokes, Pete.”
I replied, “I’m working at the moment, Sir, I will send you one later.”
He replied, “That was fantastic, send me another one.”

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Question To Ponder For The Day

Today’s question to ponder is…

What is approximately the total number of shows you watch throughout the year on television between streaming, cable, satellite, primetime, etc.?

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson


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Are There Too Many Television Programing Choices Now?

I’m really beginning to feel old fashioned, or maybe just old, because I’ve found myself lately really missing the simplicity of television when only “The Big Three” networks existed, that being ABC, NBC, and CBS.

Did you know that there are over 100 streaming services now that you can subscribe to, which only keeps growing yearly? That’s in addition to the 70 to 100 over the air channels one can get by just having a digital antenna in many cities. And don’t forget about all those hundreds of cable and satellite channels one can get by subscribing to either. With all these options to watch television programming, did you know that there are over 500 original programs airing on a yearly basis?

Maybe that’s why a recent poll showed almost 50% of consumers are beginning to feel that there are too many choices with television programming and I’m definitely one of them. I have a show or two I watch on a bunch of different channels, which causes me to have to subscribe to multiple entertainment platforms to enjoy the type of programming I like. At the present time, I actually have satellite television and five different streaming channels, with Disney+ streaming emerging this Fall beckoning me for a sixth.

When I was born in 1972, my family didn’t have all these television options. Back then, all I had to choose from was The Big Three on the two TV’s we had in our home. I remember being so excited when Fox emerged in 1986, as my choices finally got to expand a little. Having always been an avid sci-fi, fantasy, and superhero type of guy, I never really felt overwhelmed with the choices that fell on those few primetime networks. Occasionally, I had to tape a show downstairs on the VCR while I watched another upstairs, but now, sometimes my DVR is actually recording five different programs at a time and that doesn’t even include what I’m watching on those streaming channels.

Ironically, as the number of television options increases, I’m finding myself becoming more and more disinterested in many of the things I normally would watch and have ultimately been dropping shows off my viewing habits as well. But, maybe that’s a good thing? It probably is, except for the fact that I still have to subscribe to so many things to watch the specific shows I like, which is becoming quite costly these days in the process. Sometimes I wish I could just select the shows I want to watch from some type of service which charges a specific amount depending on the number of shows one subscribes to.

Nevertheless, maybe my nostalgia for those days when choices were far more limited, when I watched three or four programs a week, rather than a dozen or more, is because that was back in a time when all of us engaged far more with each other, instead of being glued to a digital screen. Frankly, I’m glad I have such an active recovery from my former addictions, as it keeps me doing what I feel God brought me here to do, which is to interact with others, and show more connection and love to human beings and not to just my television screen.

So, as the world continues to struggle with a growing number of people every day feeling depressed, isolated, and alone, maybe our world doesn’t really need yet another television service? Maybe our TV’s need to be more off than on, and our eyes and ears more on than off to each other instead. As maybe then, the world will start feeling a lot less depressing, isolating, and alone to a lot more of us…

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson