Chuckle 972

Chuckle 972
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~The Daughter's Fiancé~
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A young woman brought her fiancé home to meet her parents. After dinner, her mother told her father to find out about the young man. The father invited the fiancé to his study for a talk.

"So what are your plans?" the father asked the young man.

"I am a biblical scholar," he replied

"A Biblical scholar. Hmmm," the father said. "Admirable, but what will you do to provide a nice house for my daughter to live in?"

"I will study," the young man replied, "and God will provide for us."

"And how will you buy her a beautiful engagement ring, such as she deserves?" asked the father.

"I will concentrate on my studies," the young man replied, "God will provide for us."

"And children?" asked the father. "How will you support children?"

"Don't worry, sir, God will provide," replied the fiancé.

The conversation proceeded like this, and each time the father questioned, the young idealist insisted that God would provide.

Later, the mother asked, "How did it go, Honey?"

The father answered, "He has no job and no plans, and he thinks I’m God." ***

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Word of the Day for Sunday March 5, 2006

toothsome \TOOTH-suhm\, adjective:1. Pleasing to the taste; delicious; as, "a toothsome pie."2. Agreeable; attractive; as, "a toothsome offer."3. Sexually attractive.

Fleming was impressed not only by its taste but by its astonishing durability: Caudle's apple, after ten months in storage, was still toothsome and fragrant.-- David Guterson, "The Kingdom of Apples," Harper's Magazine, October 1999

Their topic, naturally: business niches that offer toothsome opportunities and comparatively limited competition.-- Dick Youngblood, "Business niches can be opportunities," Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 2, 2003

The myth, which Kournikova herself often takes great measures to perpetuate, is that she is an imposter on the WTA Tour, a toothsome starlet who simply uses the tennis court as a catwalk.-- Jon Wertheim, "Any day now for Anna," Sports Illustrated, April 14, 2000
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