Friday, April 3, 2015

Good morning crew,

Okay...this Sunday is Easter, or as a lot of folks like to call it these days, Resurrection Sunday. The idea behind that name is to get away from the inaccurate and misleading representation of the holiday having to do with rodents and hard boiled eggs, and get back to its real meaning; the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Sometimes this point is a bit over-stressed, as in the case of one church in Pennsylvania that recently put on an Easter show for their parishioners. At one point in the program, in front of an audience of parents and their children, a woman in an Easter bunny outfit walks out on stage where she assumes the role of Jesus and takes a scourging from the other actors.

Needless to say, the kids in the audience didn't quite understand the subtlety of the metaphor. Reportedly, one five-year-old asked his parents, "Why do they want to hurt that bunny?"

The youth minister at the church didn't exactly apologize for the performance. She said it wasn't meant to be offensive, it was meant to convey that Easter is not just about the Easter bunny.

So if you're celebrating Easter this weekend, I hope you have a wonderful time and please, keep the animal abuse to a minimum.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"A new restaurant in New York has just opened and serves dishes made only from food scraps donated from other restaurants. Said Arby's, 'They're on to us, every man for himself.'" -Seth Meyers

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"A 95-year-old man has officially become the world's oldest pilot. He's also become the first pilot to fly at 25 miles per hour." -Conan O'Brien

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"Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family." -Jimmy Fallon

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Vacationing in Kentucky, a friend and I spent the night at a small motel outside of Louisville. In the morning, I asked the woman at the desk for directions to Churchill Downs. Not able to tell us, she called her husband from the back room.

"Churchill Downs?" he asked. "That's the race-track, isn't it?" We nodded. He hesitated and then said, "I'm pretty sure it's somewhere south of the university. I'm sorry, but I don't think I can be much help."

At that point his wife left the room. The husband looked over his shoulder to make sure she had disappeared. Then he winked at us, leaned over the counter and whispered, "Take Third Street through town, go past the university and turn right on Central Avenue. After that, just look for the twin spires. You can't miss 'em!"


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Noren Eron, the great Norse comic decided to bring his act to America. He booked several shows in the northern states and did well. He then took his act down south, but he realized that the farther south he went, the less the crowd appreciated his act which had the poor guy miffed. When he got to the Deep South, no one got his act at all. After many disappointing sets, he just quit one night and returned to Norway. This goes to show you...

You should never book a miffed Norse in the south.