posted September 15, 2005 09:25 AM         

An elderly woman and her little grandson, whose face was sprinkled with
bright freckles, spent the day at the zoo. Lots of children were waiting in
line to get their cheeks painted by a local artist who was decorating them with
tiger paws.

"You've got so many freckles, there's no place to paint!" a girl in the line
said to the little fella. Embarrassed, the little boy dropped his head.

His grandmother knelt down next to him "I love your freckles. When I was a
little girl I always wanted freckles, she said, while tracing her finger
across the child's cheek. "Freckles are beautiful!"

The boy looked up, "Really?"

"Of course," said the grandmother. "Why, just name me one thing that's
prettier than freckles."

The little boy thought for a moment, peered intensely into his grandma's
face, and softly whispered, "Wrinkles."

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A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood
was like. "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire;
it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild
raspberries in the woods."

The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she said, "I sure
wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"

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My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, Grandma, do you know how you
and God are alike?"

I mentally polished my halo while I asked, "No, how are we alike?"

"You're both old," he said.

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When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied "I'm not sure."

"Look in your underwear, Grandma," he advised. "Mine says I'm four."

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A Sunday school class was studying the Ten Commandments.
They were ready to discuss the last one. The teacher asked if anyone could
tell her what it was. Susie raised her hand, stood tall, and quoted,
"Thou shall not take the covers off thy neighbor's wife."

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Our five-year-old son Mark couldn't wait to tell his friend about the movie
we had watched on television, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
The scenes with the submarine and the giant octopus had kept him wide-eyed.

In the middle of the telling, my husband interrupted Mark, "What caused the
submarine to sink?"

With a look of incredulity Mark replied, "Dad, it was the 20,000 leaks!!"

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A second grader came home from school and said to her mother,
"Mom, guess what? We learned how to make babies today."

The mother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool.
"That's interesting," she said. "How do you make babies?"

"It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change "y" to "i" and add "es."

(Why wouldn't an English teacher love that one?)
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" Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a teacher.

The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant."

The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant
means?" she asked.

Sure," said the young boy confidently. "It means carrying a child."

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A grandmother was surprised by her 7 year old grandson one morning.
He had made her coffee. She drank what was the worst cup of coffee in her
life. When she got to the bottom, there were three of those little green Army
men in the cup. She said "Honey, what are these army men doing in my coffee?"

Her grandson said, "Grandma, it says on TV, "The best part of waking up is
soldiers in your cup!"

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A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home
one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire
truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog's duties.

"They use him to keep crowds back," said one youngster.

"No," said another, "he's just for good luck"

A third child brought the argument to a close..."They use the dogs", she
said firmly, "to find the fire hydrant."