One of my readers said that I needed to share a bit of comedy in my column to raise the spirits of the folks back home. Well, I don’t know if I can do that, but I’m willing to take aim at it. So wherever you call home, I hope this uplifts your spirits!
One of my favorite places to find funny comments or situations is in church, and sometimes the funniest thing you find relates with youngins and church thinkin’.
• I remember a few years ago, my nephew asked me if he had a guardian angel. I told him, ‘Sure you do. Your guardian angel is always with you.’”
“Does he eat with me?” he asked.
“Sure,” I said.
“Does he sleep with me?”
“Sure,” I said.
“That must have been who kicked me out of bed last night,” he said.
• Now, I won’t take credit for this next one; it’s one I heard from an older feller, who will remain nameless:
Do you know where radio was invented?
Where?
The Garden of Eden.
What?
God took Adam’s rib and made the first loudspeaker.
• A little known fact about Noah’s Ark:
There were three camels on board.
The first was the camel many people swallow while straining at a gnat.
The second was the camel whose back was broken by the last straw.
And the third was the one who shall pass through the eye of a needle before a rich man enters the kingdom of Heaven.
• Farmer Jud and his wife Jeweldine, a childless farm couple, prayed to have a child.
As an answer to their prayer, the couple received the blessing of triplets.
The preacher commented as to how their prayers were answered.
Jud said, “Yep, but I never prayed for a bumper crop.”
• A lady searched endlessly to find the love of her life, with no success, so she finally turned to prayer:
“Oh Lord, I am not asking for a thing for myself, but please send mother a son-in-law.”
• A father asks a prospective son-in law, “Can you support my daughter in the manner she is accustom to?”
He replies, “She ain’t gonna move is she?”
• I have always heard that bread cast on the water always returns. Bread cast on the water, may return, but all the bread we send overseas sure doesn’t.
Laughter has always been an important part of life in our family mainly because of the nature of our ancestors to lean toward being stoic in their approach in life. That approach comes even more naturally to me than laughter does. I am often asked “Why don’t you smile more.” My answer is sometimes, “I am smiling on the inside.” Moments of joys and laughter are even more cherished to me. May laughter always fill your days, because God does have a sense of humor; otherwise, he would have never made someone quite like us, would he have?
Randall Franks is an award-winning musician, singer and actor. He is best known for his role as “Officer Randy Goode” on TV’s “In the Heat of the Night” now on WGN America. His latest CD release, “An Appalachian Musical Revival,” is by www.shareamericafoundation.org. He is a member of the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame. He is a syndicated columnist for http://randallfranks.com/ and can be reached at rfrankscatoosa@gmail.com.