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Posted by Simon (# 1) on :
 
This joke submitted by Lillian:

A Sunday-school teacher asks the class of young children, "What is little and gray, eats nuts, and has a big bushy tail?"

After a moment one child replies, "I know the answer's probably supposed to be Jesus, but it sure sounds like a squirrel to me."
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
As a former Sunday School teacher, I must admit to liking this one! Virtually every question asked in one of those places does have the answer "Jesus" ...
 

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Posted by Jonah the Whale (# 1244) on :
 
When I heard the joke it was a preacher giving a children's address. I thought that was funnier because that sort of thing happens all the time - a preacher trying to milk obvious answers out of reluctant children.
 

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Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
When I heard it, it was a visiting preacher giving the children's address.

Jengie
 

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Posted by Amos (# 44) on :
 
I thought it was pretty funny. Our Sunday School curriculum (MCU, or something) insists on mentioning Jesus every three lines of every story, as if the kids would forget about Him if it didn't.
 

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Posted by Esmeralda (# 582) on :
 
Old, old, old. But the oldies are the goodies.
 

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Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :
 
I'm slightly influenced by the fact that when I see that joke I hear Mike Yaconelli delivering (a somewhat longer version of) the same joke with his usual panache for such things.
 

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Posted by Lady R of Ashwood (# 4788) on :
 
Snorted out loud in the university library at this one. It may be old, but therefore I must be young, right
 

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Posted by Pânts (# 4487) on :
 
It's funny?
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Look, now you've upset Pants, because she thought the answer really was Jesus. Have you no compassion?
 

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Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on :
 
<- Chorister!
 

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Posted by Glimmer (# 4540) on :
 
A nice quick, throw-away quip.
 

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Posted by Lady Alicia of Scouseland (# 7668) on :
 
Mildly amusing, made me LOL.
 

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Posted by sharkshooter (# 1589) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lady Alicia of Scouseland:
Mildly amusing, made me LOL.

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Hopefully you won't read any really funny ones at work, then.
 

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Posted by Foolhearty (# 6196) on :
 
Huh?

I guess we run our church school differently, then.

Left me cold. Read it twice to see if I'd missed the joke.

Didn't.

Wasn't funny.

[ 05. July 2005, 15:41: Message edited by: Foolhearty ]
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I have heard a number of variations on this. But they are funny, mainly because I know people for whom the only acceptable answer to any question seems to be Jesus.
 

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Posted by Flausa (# 3466) on :
 
This didn't strike me as funny at all. It just feels like it's missing something. It seems to assume that everyone will understand the background, but I know very few people who actually would be familiar with the Sunday school experience.
 

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Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
Actually from some of the things Adrian Plass talks about and an experience the cub and I had at a Vacation Bible School week at my own church, this hits home beautifully. (It was on the spiritual aspects of Harry Potter. "In the chess game, Ron sacrificed himself for his friends. Now, who else sacrificed himself for his friends? That's right, Jesus sacrificed himself for his friends..."

So really it's perfect!


 

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Posted by MaryO (# 161) on :
 
I was at a Eucharist where the preacher was trying to tell a children's story as the sermon, and he had some difficulty getting it really going. About 5 minutes into it, a 5-year-old girl raised her hand, and when he called on her, she said (in a voice that could probably have been heard miles away), "What does this have to do with Jesus?"

The laughter took about another five minutes to die down.
 

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Posted by serena (# 7649) on :
 
Oh man ... I think anyone who went through Sunday School or has ever tried to lead it must find that funny by virtue of experience ... I just snorted very loudly in a packed Computer Room at uni!
 

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Posted by busyknitter (# 2501) on :
 
That's odd, our vicar told this very joke at the beginning of his sermon last Sunday. Are you out there Reverend F?

BK
 

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Posted by Evangeline (# 7002) on :
 
That story gave me the creeps-I can still remember the strips our 1st grade teacher tore off Cathy Kirkpatrick (this is 30yrs ago but seems like yesterday) for being so rude as to ask what this story the teacher was relating had to do with maths-I think she had to stand in the corner for the rest of the year or something it stuck in my memory because I was wondernig the same thing and was just mighty glad I hadn't asked.
 

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Posted by Mousethief (# 953) on :
 
I like it! It's funny because it points up an uncomfortable truth.
 

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Posted by The Coot (# 220) on :
 
Fantastic. Loved it. I'm in there snorting with all the other snorters. You have to have been there perhaps? Wide-eyed Sunday school teachers, enunciating their every word and exaggerating their actions like a silent movie (because for some reason people under the age of 8 cannot understand unless spoken to like this):

"...and who can tell me who that is?"

~chorus~
JESUS!!!!!!

(Then the praise-up pay-off)
 

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Posted by Calindreams (# 9147) on :
 
This is the first joke that has made me laugh out loud up to now. It's probably based on a true story.
 

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Posted by Carys (# 78) on :
 
I've known this story for a long time, and it does amuse me, but I only voted 2 because I don't see it as a joke.

Carys
 

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Posted by tclune (# 7959) on :
 
Reminds me of what my father used to say: "Christ is the answer. Now, what's the question?"

--Tom Clune
 

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Posted by Zeke (# 3271) on :
 
Having been a preacher's kid and spent innumerable hours with innumerable Sunday School teachers, this made me laugh out loud. Too much like the real thing not to laugh.

(Once I asked a teacher to explain what circumcision was because I had no idea--her explanation was completely incoherent, and I later got into trouble for harassing the teacher)
 

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Posted by GloriaGloriaGloria (# 8017) on :
 
This one makes me laugh, because I've sat through far too many ridiculous, cutsey 'children's moments' and 'children's sermons' where well-meaning adults coax obvious answers out of reluctant children, and it brings back fond memories of the children who spoke back.
 

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Posted by Papio. (# 4201) on :
 

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Originally posted by Pânts:
It's funny?

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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
Actually from some of the things Adrian Plass talks about and an experience the cub and I had at a Vacation Bible School week at my own church, this hits home beautifully. (It was on the spiritual aspects of Harry Potter. "In the chess game, Ron sacrificed himself for his friends. Now, who else sacrificed himself for his friends? That's right, Jesus sacrificed himself for his friends..."

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