What is Hinduism? Beautifully Explained by a Non-Indian.

One of the best explanation of Hinduism I've ever heard. She is so clear in her expressions and has grasped the essentials of this religion.

Word Play

These Words Have Something in Common, WHAT? Banana Dresser Grammar Potato Revive Uneven Assess

This brought tears to my eyes. Would you believe it, some 2, 583 people don't like this story. What do you call them?

A Helping Hand

     I was in Japan during this April and I had a pleasant experience. We, my wife and I, came back from Nara to Tokyo (where we were based) at around 11:00 p.m. It was raining heavily and though it was just a walking distance to the hotel that we were put up, we decided to take a taxi. We had to cross the road to flag one, but none would stop; there were only a few of them passing. I then saw a young boy with an umbrella standing and I asked him if there was a taxi stand nearby. He told me that there wasn't and went out in the rain to try and flag one down. He couldn't and so he came back and showed us a traffic signal nearby and said that we might be able to catch one that stops for a red light. He came along with us to the signal and in spite of our refusal, insisted on giving us his umbrella and left. The Japanese are very helpful.
     There was also another incident of such a kind when, at one of the places that we went of visit we couldn't locate a restroom. There was an old lady in a shop to whom we asked if there was one nearby. She immediately left the shop (she was running it all by herself), took us to the nearest restroom which was some 100 meters or more and then left. I doubt if anybody anywhere else would have done such a thing.
     Most of the places that we visited were temples and here are some pictures that I took.

Here is a picture of a Just Married couple.

The English Language

I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble but not you, on hiccough, thorough, tough and through.
Well done! And now you wish perhaps to learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word that looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead -- it's said like bed, not bead -- For goodness' sake, don't call it deed.
Watch out for meat and great and threat, (they rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
A moth is not a moth in mother, nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there, nor dear and fear or bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose, just look them up -- goose and choose
and cork and work and card and ward and front and font, and word and sword,
and do and go, and wart and cart -- Come, come! I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!

I mastered it when I was five!

A Riddle

Can you guess the answer to this riddle: 
     "I am a wondrous creature: to women a thing of joyful expectation, to close-lying companions serviceable. I harm no city-dweller excepting my slayer alone. My stem is erect and tall––I stand up in bed––and whiskery somewhere down below. Sometimes a countryman's quite comely daughter will venture, bumptious girl, to get a grip on me. She assaults my red self and seizes my head and clenches me in a cramped place. She will soon feel the effect of her encounter with me, this curl-locked woman who squeezes me. Her eye will be wet."
     It is not what you think might it is and it is something quite unexpected. This is a double-entendre.
     This is the 25th. riddle in the "Exter Book" of "Codex exoniensis" in the Exter Cathedral in England.  It may also interest you to know that the title of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" is a pun on the Elizabethan use of "no-thing" which is a slang word.
     An example of a bawdy double-entendre is in the James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies" where Moneypenny at a certain point of time points out that Bond is "a cunning linguist". It also comes across in the movie "The World is not Enough"  where James Bond tells Dr. Christmas Jones "I thought Christmas comes only once." The double-entendre is evident only if you see the situation when he tells her that.
     Bond movies have a lot of sexual innuendo in them.
     In music, you have this song with the title "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me"  by the Bellamy Brothers.

Some Notices on Church Bulletin Boards as They Actually Appeared

● The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. 
● The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.' 
● Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands. 
● The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict. 
● Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help. 
● Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation. 
● For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. 
● Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get. 
● The Rector will preach his farewell message after which the choir will sing: 'Break Forth Into Joy.' 
● Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days. 
● A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow. 
● At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice. 
● Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones. 
● Scouts are saving aluminium cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children. 
● The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility. 
● Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 p.m. - prayer and medication to follow. 
● The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon. 
● This evening at 7 p.m. there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. 
● Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 a.m. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. is done. 
● The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday. 
● Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. Please use the back door. 
● The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 p.m. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy. 
● Weight Watchers will meet at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance. 
● Join us tonight for prayers, coffee and fresh beagles. 
● Pastor is on vacation. Massages can be given to church secretary. 
● This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends. 
● Wednesday the ladies liturgy will meet. Mrs. Johnson will sing "Put me in my little bed accompanied by the pastor." 
● This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the altar. 
● The concert held in Fellowship Hall was a great success. Special thanks are due to the minister's daughter, who labored the whole evening at the piano, which as usual fell upon her. 
● Ushers will eat latecomers. 
● The service will close with "Little Drops of Water." One of the ladies will start quietly and the rest of the congregation will join in. 
● The Lutheran Men's group will meet at 6 p.m. Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and dessert will be served for a nominal feel. 
● Next Sunday Mrs. Vinson will be soloist for the morning service. The pastor will then speak on "It's a Terrible Experience." 
● The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours." 
● Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered. 
● The audience is asked to remain seated until the end of the recession. 
● Wrinkled with burdens? Come to church for a faith lift!