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The Berlin Wall
We used to live in a flat beneath a German man and his wife. One day he was telling us that as a student in East Berlin, he had a quiet night out with friends. He went to the cinema to watch a movie, came back to one of their flats for a few drinks, then they all fell asleep. He woke up the next morning to hear on the news that the Wall had come down. He’d been in Berlin the whole time and missed it.
You can’t take it with you
I came across a funny story from Reuters News
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German man was such an avid collector of weapons and other paraphernalia that he ran out of space at home and had to sleep in a hotel, neighbors said following the 71-year-old’s death.
Executors found an arsenal of weaponry and assorted goods at the man’s two-story home in the western city of Aachen, police said on Wednesday.
“There were 71 guns — one for each year of his life,” said police spokesman Paul Kemen. “He also had 41 cases of ammunition and five walking sticks fitted with retractable blades.”
Heiner Hautermans, a reporter at the Aachener Nachrichten paper, said neighbors related how the man, who lived alone, collected everything from clothing to garden tools and watches.
“The house was stuffed to the rafters,” he said. “By the end, the neighbors said he had to sleep in a hotel sometimes because there was no more room.”
One neighbor sometimes handled up to 14 deliveries of goods a day for the man when he was out, he added. “At some point she got fed up with it.”
No heirs have yet been found for the man, police said.
I can’t help but being reminded of the parable of the rich fool in the gospel of Luke. There’s nothing wrong with collecting things, although in this case it meant that he couldn’t live in his own house, which is surely going too far. Earthy security is one thing, but don’t we all have an eternal secutirty to think about too? When we die we have to leave all that we have collected behind. It stays here to be passed on to our family and friends. The parable of the rich fool goes on to talk about being rich towards God. As this is something that will exist after death, maybe this is where the majority of my attention should be.
Who created Huckabee? Stewart? Conan? Colbert?
There’s a hilarious video over on the Fox News blog with John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Conan O’Brien. Keep watching to the end – it shows that Mike Huckabee has a sense of humour!
Click here for the full article.
Or watch the youtube video:
“I won’t press charges if Jesus isn’t harmed”
Jesus as a ransom for many?
So… what would Jesus do? – probably clean up after his dogs…
If you’re gonna lie, lie properly
An article about the perils of lying…
From the BBC:
A South African man has been fined $140 for taking a week off work, telling his employers he was pregnant. Charles Sibindana, 27, stole a certificate from a clinic during his pregnant girlfriend’s checkup, a court near Johannesburg heard. He then added his own details to the note and submitted it and took seven days off work, seemingly unaware that only women consult gynaecologists.
His employers became suspicious and investigated the matter. On passing sentence Magistrate Bruno Van Eeden warned Mr Sibindana “not to walk around faking sick letters from gynaecologists” as if he was pregnant, the South African Press Association news agency reported.
From… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/ 6190772.stm
