Cybersalt News

As we approach Christmas, keep in mind that some of your short term festivity may have long term consequences - as you can imagine in "The Cat's Christmas Revenge" at:
www.cybersalt.org/funny-christmas-pictures/the-cats-christmas-revenge

There is a new Simply Susan blog on the Cybersalt site today.  Mrs. Cybersalt has written about her experience of being with her mom when she passed away.  You can read "Grief" at:
www.cybersalt.org/simply-susan/grief

Finally, today's mailing is brought to you by Yoke Wong's Online Piano Lessons.  In no time she can have you playing the piano better than Pastor Tim!

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing.

Marry An Actor

An aspiring young actor asked a young lady's father if he could have his daughter's hand in marriage. The father said, "I would never let my daughter marry an actor."

The actor said, "Sir, I think you may change your mind if you see me perform. Won't you at least come and see the play?"

So the father went to see the play, and the next day he called the actor, "You were right. I did change my mind. Go ahead and marry my daughter. You're no actor."

One-liner #0774

"Half the people you know are below average."

Holiday Overeating

"He ate so much over the holidays that he decided to quit cold turkey."

Quote #1227

"I like Christmas presents, Christmas music, Christmas trees, Christmas cards. I like the Christmas spirit. What I don’t like is the way people, whose only interest in Christmas is money, have moved in on a nice, non-commercial holiday like Thanksgiving."
- Andy Rooney, on the preponderance of Christmas commercials ads, sales etc. weeks before Thanksgiving even starts

The Oyster

"The Oyster"

There once was an oyster
Whose story I tell
Who found that some sand
Had got into his shell.

It was only a grain
but it gave him great pain.
For oysters have feelings
Although they're so plain.

Now, did he berate
the harsh workings of fate
that had brought him
To such a deplorable state?

Did he curse at the government
Cry for election
And claim that the sea should
Have given him protection?

'No,' he said to himself
As he lay on a shell
Since I cannot remove it
I shall try to improve it.

Now the years have rolled around
As the years always do
And he came to his ultimate
Destiny ­ stew.

And the small grain of sand
That had bothered him so
Was a beautiful pearl
All richly aglow.

Now the tale has a moral
for isn't it grand
What an oyster can do
With a morsel of sand?

What couldn't we do
If we'd only begin
With some of the things
That get under our skin.
- Unknown