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A man is driving along a highway
and sees a rabbit jump out across the middle of the road.


He swerves to avoid hitting it,
but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in front of the car.


The driver,
a sensitive man as well as an animal lover,
pulls over and gets out to see
what has become of the rabbit.


Much to his dismay,
the rabbit is the Easter Bunny,
and he is DEAD.


The driver feels so awful that he begins to cry.


A beautiful blonde woman driving down the highway
sees the man crying on the side of the road
and pulls over.


She steps out of the car and asks the man
what's wrong.


"I feel terrible!" he explains.
"I accidentally hit the Easter Bunny
with my car and KILLED HIM!"


The blonde says, "Don't worry."


She runs to her car
and pulls out a spray can.
She walks over to the limp,
dead Easter Bunny,
bends down,
and sprays the contents onto him.


The Easter Bunny jumps up,
waves its paw at the two of them
and hops off down the road.


Ten feet away he stops,
turns around and waves again.
He hops down the road another 10 feet,
turns and waves,
hops another ten feet,
turns and waves,
and repeats this again and again
and again and again,
until he hops out of sight.


The man is astonished.
He runs over to the woman and demands,
"What is in that can?
What did you spray on the Easter Bunny?!?"


The woman turns the can around
so that the man can read the label.


It says...


(Are you ready for this?)


(Are you sure?)


(You know you're gonna be sorry...)


(Last chance!)


(OK, here it is...)


It says:


Hair Spray
Restores life to dead hair,
and adds permanent wave.

Can't say you didn't warn us.

Now where do I report the bug in the forum filters? It seems lame jokes are getting through.

Fred Chapman:

The person who sent that to me said that it had just missed being a lame joke....by a hare

Groan

Wait a minute!    I just got the part about the bunny waving. That's funny.

Ya gatta luv it!

I know we're not supposed to talk about the Bible in this forum anymore, but it would be better than this.

Ephesians 5:3-4 "But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks."

I guess it's time to go do some studies as to what constitutes "foolish talking." At the moment I am not convinced God was forbidding humor and light-heartedness. This thread certainly did not venture into coarse jesting. I would imagine ANY talking people do is foolish by comparison to God's.

In Eph 5:4 Paul is telling us to give "thanks." He repeats this in 2 Cor 9:15 , "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift."  All the while recognizing the total inadequacy of our feeble speech,

I had a very bad day yesterday and this silly little thread (and the Zondervan rollout) made my day happier. I hope it didn't ruin too many readers' days.

Aramaic for "fool"?

Michael Lyman:

I know we're not supposed to talk about the Bible in this forum anymore, but it would be better than this.

Ephesians 5:3-4 "But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks."

Perhaps you were just poking fun here; maybe not (hard to tell just by your post).

A word study (in Logos) of moros (foolish), and a close look at the context of Eph 5:4, sheds light on Paul's use of morologia ("foolish talk" - Eph 5:4), suggesting that the issue is not merely 'foolishness' in the primary English language sense of being mentally deficient, or without intellectual merit. Rather, it suggests foolishness in the primary Hebrew language sense of being morally deficient, or even immoral.

Notice the parallel terms: fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, and coarse jesting (vv 3.4), and sexually immoral, impure, covetous... (v.5). Notice also the contrasting term "giving thanks" (v.5, also v.8,ff; BTW 'giving thanks' - eucharistia contrasts obviously with 'coarse jesting' - eutrapelia). A word study of eucharistia would also be in order here, and would shed light on the contrasting terms Paul describes.

Taking "foolish talk" (in Eph 5:4) as simply being silly, or telling a joke (excluding a 'dirty joke' which v.4 mentions specifically) is very probably not what Paul had in mind when he chose that word. Instead we should think of immoral, or morally questionable speech (including morally questionable humor), among which I would include not only sexual humor, but any humor at the expense of another person, of creation, or (obviously) of God.

TDNT takes the meaning of morologia farther to include foolish teaching (see v.6, e.g.), and the root 'logos' often has that meaning. But the immediate context of vv 3-5 doesn't hint at this, suggesting that 'logia' should be taken as a part of this word to refer to speech more generally, without the context of an embodiment of knowledge. I think TDNT goes to far in its conjecture on this point (as TDNT sometimes does), YMMV.

Matthew C Jones:

No harm intended to Blondes, I'm sure.

Two of my five daughters are blonde. I assure you no harm is intended, though I can't speak for the poor rabbit that got this started. Thank goodness he was resurrected!