1) A man ordered a length of rope by telephone from his
nearest hardware shop. But when he went to collect the
rope, he found that the assistant had miswritten the
order by interchanging feet and inches. As a result of
this, the rope was only 30 percent of the length that
the man wanted. What length did he want and what length
did he get?
2) My first is in ocean but not in sea
My second in milk but not in me
My third in three but not in throw
My fourth in vow but not in crow
My fifth in eight but not in night
My last in wrong and also right
My whole is praise for thoughts for men
Or women, too, or tongue or pen.
What am I?
3) What is the lowest number which, when written out in words,
requires the five vowels A, E, I, O and U, once each, in its spelling.
4) Candace is Jane's daughter's aunt's husband's daughter's
sister. What is the relationship between Candance and Jane?
5) I am something that nothing is,
but yet I have a name.
I am sometimes tall and sometimes short.
I join your talks;
I join your sport,
And I play in every game.
What am I?
6) Five siblings are they, their color is true;
One belongs to one, four are shared by two.
Connected together, some by locks;
Many meet their fate upon the rocks.
Arrange their initials, and you should
Find things that are found in a neighborhood.
What has just been described?
7) Some try to hide, some try to cheat,
but time will show, we always will meet.
Try as you might, to guess my name,
I promise you'll know, when I do claim.
What am I?
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1) A man ordered a length of rope by telephone from his
ReplyDeletenearest hardware shop. But when he went to collect the
rope, he found that the assistant had miswritten the
order by interchanging feet and inches. As a result of
this, the rope was only 30 percent of the length that
the man wanted. What length did he want and what length
did he get?
2) My first is in ocean but not in sea
My second in milk but not in me
My third in three but not in throw
My fourth in vow but not in crow
My fifth in eight but not in night
My last in wrong and also right
My whole is praise for thoughts for men
Or women, too, or tongue or pen.
What am I?
3) What is the lowest number which, when written out in words,
requires the five vowels A, E, I, O and U, once each, in its spelling.
4) Candace is Jane's daughter's aunt's husband's daughter's
sister. What is the relationship between Candance and Jane?
5) I am something that nothing is,
but yet I have a name.
I am sometimes tall and sometimes short.
I join your talks;
I join your sport,
And I play in every game.
What am I?
6) Five siblings are they, their color is true;
One belongs to one, four are shared by two.
Connected together, some by locks;
Many meet their fate upon the rocks.
Arrange their initials, and you should
Find things that are found in a neighborhood.
What has just been described?
7) Some try to hide, some try to cheat,
but time will show, we always will meet.
Try as you might, to guess my name,
I promise you'll know, when I do claim.
What am I?
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ANSWERS TO RIDDLES:
1) The man ordered 9 feet 2 inches of rope, and got 2 feet 9 inches.
2) CLEVER
3) Two hundred and six.
4) Candace is Jane's neice.
5) Your shadow
6) The Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario
7) Death - See Jn 3:16
Q: What happened when the computer fell on the floor?
ReplyDeleteA: It slipped a disk.
Q: Why was there a bug in the computer?
A: It was looking for a byte to eat.
Q: What is a computer virus?
A: A terminal illness.
Q: How did the mouse get out of the Russian Cathedral?
A: He clicked on an icon and opened a window
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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds.
Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies
into which they never enter and with their hand on the doorlatch
they die outside. GK Chesterton
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Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment;
trust in money and you may have it taken from you;
but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in
time or eternity. - D.L. Moody
Soldiers of Misfortune
ReplyDeleteChildren as Weapons
June 1, 2007
Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley.
For 377 days, Gracia Burnham, an American missionary, was held captive by Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino group associated with Al Qaeda. During that time, she experienced horrors we can't even imagine. She also gained an insight to one of the world's most pressing issues.
I'm not talking about Islamic extremism, although Burnham obviously has some hard-earned insights into that phenomenon. I'm talking about the use of child soldiers.
After being kidnapped, Gracia and her husband Martin, whose story is told in the June 4th issue of the New Republic, were starved and force-marched through the jungle. Along the way they saw other hostages beheaded and raped. Finally, she saw her husband Martin die after a botched rescue attempt.
One of Burnham's principal tormentors was a 14-year-old Abu Sayyaf soldier named Ahmed. Burnham admits to loathing him for "hoarding food when she had none, throwing stones at her while she bathed—fully clothed—in the river, and pushing her along the trail saying 'faster, faster.'"
And yet Burnham prayed for a way to love Ahmed. She got her chance after he was wounded in a firefight and soiled himself. When she saw that he was embarrassed, she thought of her own son and felt love for Ahmed. She washed Ahmed's clothes in the river before he was taken into the jungle on a stretcher, bound, gagged and "stark raving mad." To this day, she has no idea what happened to him.
Apart from being loved by his victim, Ahmed's story is typical. On any given day, there are an estimated 250,000 children, some as young as eight, being used by "state-run armies, paramilitaries and guerilla groups around the world." They're employed as soldiers, porters, sex slaves and even human mine detectors.
In Uganda alone, 25,000 to 30,000 children have been abducted by an especially brutal group calling itself "The Lord's Resistance Army." Children are brutalized and then made to brutalize and kill others, including their own siblings.
Other countries where child soldiers are being used include Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Burundi, to name but a few. However the children are "recruited," the result is the same: "their health and lives are endangered and their childhoods are sacrificed."
If all of this comes as a surprise to you, you're not alone. The war in Uganda, never mind who's fighting it, has been called a "forgotten war." That's the first thing that needs to be changed. The church needs to draw attention to what, by any reasonable measure, is a humanitarian crisis. To help you understand the issue, we've got some resources at our website.
You may also want to learn about a recently-introduced bill called "The Child Soldiers Prevention Act." Co-sponsored by Senator Brownback, it seeks to put into action what the Congress has already put into words: that the United States should "lead efforts . . . to end this abuse of human rights."
Not surprisingly, Christians are among the bill's principal sponsors and supporters. Because if Gracia Burnham could love Ahmed, the child soldier who tormented her, the rest of us surely can at least speak out on behalf of the many thousands like him.
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