Sheep and Goats
When William read in the Bible about separating the sheep from the goats, he wondered if that included mountain goats or just those pesky little trash eaters from outside the park . . .
Red
Clarence was finding that being beautiful had its rewards, but also its downside. Last Thursday, for instance, he had been asked if the Red meant he was Republican, or if he was Communist, and his Irish friends asked if it meant he was a British Red Coat, and finally he was asked if he was the scarlet colored Wild Beast mentioned in the Bible book of Revelation . . .
Water Runs Downhill
Chester’s wife Chloe was a reader and fact gatherer, but she really liked to pontificate. She had read seven different versions or translations of the Bible, read the Koran twice, the Bhagavad Gita and the I Ching once each, and had gotten half way through the Encyclopedia Britannica before it went online. Chester was more of a beer and sports sort of guy, so when she saw the little mountain creek on the way to the Poas volcano in Costa Rica and started to tell him about the water cycle, he said, “Wait, I know three things: Friday is payday, water runs downhill and beer is a vital source of vitamin P. That’s all I need for now, thank you very much. . . . . David, Sf.G.