My mother cracked me up yesterday. I was driving her as we ran errands and she told me a pun.
\nWhen Dear Husband is away, we seem to make it a point to stand in for him telling puns. He’s addicted to the simplest puns, and I prefer the long drawn out stories with the goofy punchlines. At any rate, when he is away, we feel obligated to fill in the missing puns.
\nEM was reading a mystery. The book wasn’t particularly humorous, but it had a paragraph that hit her funny bone. Apparently, one of the characters owned three goats. The goats were named Shirley, Goodness and Mercy.
\nThose of you who are Christians get the pun. For the rest of you, the names are taken from this phrase “Surely, goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord,” which comes from the 23rd Psalm.
\nPerhaps you had to be there, but I thought it was funny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My mother cracked me up yesterday. I was driving her as we ran errands and she told me a pun. When Dear Husband is away, we seem to make it a point to stand in for him telling puns. He’s … Continue reading