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Mere Nick
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A Sunday school teacher was teaching a group of small children. To introduce her lesson she said "I'm thinking of something about a foot long, has a brushy tail, is usually gray, has four legs, climbs trees and likes to eat acorns. Now who can tell the answer?"
All the kids just sat there, kind of looking around at each other. So, the teacher asked the question again. All the kids looked around at each other a little more and then one little boy slowly raised his hand. He said, "teacher, we know Jesus is the answer but it sounds like you're talking about a squirrel".
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Ariel
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As it stands, not much mileage for fruitful discussion. What direction did you see this thread going in, how might others participate?
If this is just a sort of random observation, we do have a Random Tangents thread where it might go.
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Taliesin
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this is an old, old story, and goes best with the introduction of how the school tries to persuade the visiting preacher to aim a little closer to the kids than he usually does. see here and there are hundreds of em, but this one here is quite interesting.
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Ariel
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Yes. I don't think we need a thread on variants of the squirrel joke, though.
At present this thread is looking pretty much headed for closure, unless there's a convincing reason for keeping it open.
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Mere Nick
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It was a joke I heard today and this looked like the right place for it. I was guessing as to the best place to put it.
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Mere Nick
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Originally posted by Taliesin:
this is an old, old story
I'd never heard it before. 53 years wasted.
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Mere Nick
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Originally posted by Taliesin:
but this one here is quite interesting.
It is very interesting. What caused me to think the joke was so funny is that a guy who grew up in our congregation and is now in his 20s would always give the same answer, "Jesus", whenever a question was asked in class and he didn't have an answer.
His article reminds of the rave reviews I saw in some Christian literature about the movie "Children of Men" that came out a few years ago. Lots of folks just see it as an action movie but it was actually so much more than that.
Old joke for a good article, yeah, I call it a good trade.
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Ariel
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OK, thanks for the explanation, Mere Nick; sorry, but there's not a lot of scope for discussion or participation in this thread, so I'm going to close it. But thank you for sharing the joke.
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