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Christian Humour

Christians haven’t always had the best relationship with humour, and often we are the butt of jokes, rather than telling them. It’s a tough line between being funny and being lame even for those not restricted in the limits to what they can say or do, but there are some people who manage it. Here are a few links to sites that I have enjoyed in the past and a couple of my favourite Christian jokes. Just a disclaimer, I take no responsibility for their funniness or any offence they may cause. Enjoy!

SITES

The Wittenburg Door

These guys have the distinction of very kindly rejecting a piece of mine.

Ship of Fools

Veyr clever English site (British humour is always better) though probably more liberal than me in their theology. I love the idea of the Mystery Worshipper

The Holy Observor

Sadly defunct, but worth checking out the archives.

JOKES

Q. How many Anglicans does it take to change a light bulb?

A. None, they still use candles

Q. How many Salvos does it take to change a light globe?

A. Change?!?!

I know the following one will get me some negative feedback, but I love it. In my youth leader days I was invited to a 21st of a friend who attended the local Assemblies of God, a very pentecostal church. I was sitting at a table of about a dozen, me and another Salvo, then the AOG Youth Leader and young adults. I hadn’t met most of them and I was nervous, so I was trying to break the ice so I asked if anyone wanted to hear a joke and they were all eager so I told the following. There was dead silence, and I thought I was in trouble, then their Youth Leader nearly fell off the table laughing. After that we all had a great night.

Q. Why do Pentecostals make the best kissers?

A. They use tongues.

*ducks*

Q. Did you hear about the cannibal who ate a Catholic missionary, a Quaker missionary and a Lutheran missionary?

A. The next day he had an ecumenical movement.

Please feel free to share any jokes in the comments, just keep it clean! And, I would love links to some good quality Christian humour sites.

Finally, here is my attempt at some satire, I hope you enjoy.

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Monkey business

Mojo would be proud!

A plucky group of 15 monkeys have used bendy tree branches to slingshot themselves over a 5m-tall electric fence in Japan.

The primates launched themselves one by one off the 2m trees and over the fence to escape their enclosure at Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute (PRI).

The full story is here. Let’s hope they don’t figure out what else they can fling at people using catapults!

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Disgraceful indeed…

Normally I consider Cricinfo’s Page 2 a complete waste of time, and a disgrace in itself, but occasionally it manages to make me laugh. This was rather amusing, actually.

I especially like the Stuart Broad one haha

UPDATED TO ADD: Some of the comments are worth reading for themselves. The ones from this post featured Sandmanesque, who I assume is named after this Sandman not the other that leaps to mind, who was particularly, and perhaps unfairly harsh. But, in the same comments I think the user TD_160 summed up the travails of any comedic writer in a nutshell when he said:

Nice one. Just as England, you too are in good form. Sometimes we get some fairly ordinary writing from you, but that is to be expected – it must be stressful to have to write a witty and interesting article twice every week; and I suppose there aren’t always interesting and witty observations to be made in the world of cricket.

I find it hard enough being funny on an amateur basis, I would hate to have the pressure being funny part of my job description! How do you set the KPIs for that?

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A Rose by any other name…

For some strange reason, I found this article laugh out loud hilarious (as in my vocal cords vibrated to emit a sound denoting mirth or amusement, not just the LOL people throw around). It did earn me few funny looks.

I don’t know whether it was the original article, the fact that people seemed to be deliberately trying to crash the commenting system with outrageous names or the fact that some of the commenters go so very angry at the lack of real world application of the post.

It’s as if they were outraged that the blog owner dared to post something that approached levity and didn’t give them a solution on a silver platter. Then again, it could have been their latest stop in a futile search to solve a mission critical issue with their database that was costing millions. That would make me angry.

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