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Susan
Posted on Saturday, July 31, 1999 - 11:05 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I need a break from all the serious conversations. Does anyone have a funny story to share about growing up or living as an SDA (not to be mean, just the humorous)?

For instance, me and my brother always knew the exact minute of sunset on Sat. night. The T.V. would go on instantly. It would have been handy to have a timer set on it! Or, how about explaining to your friends why there wasn't a pepper shaker on the table (like excessive salt use is good for!). And the ladies who wouldn't be caught dead wearing earrings or a necklace? Weren't they the ones with the fanciest pins on? That always cracks me up! I like to say to them, "what a beautiful piece of jewelry you have on today" that really flips them out!!!

Do you have similar funny memories? I sure could use a laugh. Thanks, Susan
maggieb
Posted on Sunday, August 01, 1999 - 6:53 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Susan, you know, of course, that in heaven, we won't have jewels (gasp) in our crowns, good SDA's will have watches instead!

Maggie
Lynn
Posted on Sunday, August 01, 1999 - 9:06 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Susan, A non-SDA friend of mine told me that the last time his SDA cousin was over, the cousin kept thumping his Bible at him & telling him "Don't you know, you're gonna go to HELL if you don't keep the Sabbath?!"
When my friend was telling me this, I interrupted him & said, "Now wait a minute, he's sending you to a hell he doesn't even believe in?"
Geneva Chinnock
Posted on Sunday, August 01, 1999 - 10:32 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear Susan: I love Adventist humor. Here is one of my favorites.
A man walks into the woman's department store and tells the sales clerk he wants to buy a bra for his wife.
"What type of bra?" asked the clerk.
"Type?" inquires the man. "There is more than one type?"
"There are three types," replies the clerk. "The Catholic type, the Salvation Army type, and the Adventist type. Which one do you need?"
Still confused the man asks, "What is the difference in them?"
The clerk reponds, "It is really very easy. The Catholic type supports the massess, the Salvation Army lifts up the fallen, and the Adventist type makes mountains out of mole hills."
Colleentinker
Posted on Sunday, August 01, 1999 - 9:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

My story can't compete with Geneva's joke! But I do remember a lady in our church when I was a teenager who was an absolutely wonderful cook. She and her family would never allow a morsel of meat to pass their lips, and they were quite public about the fact that they didn't drink milk, either.
But this woman made the most indulgent entrees and desserts you can imagine.

The thing that made our family laugh, though, was that despite the ban on milk, this woman regularly served her family and guests real, full-fat ice cream (often on top of her famous rhubarb roly-poly! Yum!).
Lydell
Posted on Monday, August 02, 1999 - 6:32 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Okay, at a "fellowship" (yeah right!) dinner one day the pastos wife was chewed out for letting her 2 year old eat jello with a fork. Couldn't help but think how this skinny sour old lady who was doing the complaining had absolutely zero visits from her own grown son....hmm, could there be a connection?

We live in the far southeastern corner of Alabama and were attending an all white congregation SDA church. I was the "social committee chairman".

Got the bright idea that since the bookmobile from the conference office would be coming down soon, that we should invite the members of the "black" church over for a social during the time it was there so they could shop too.

Geez, it seemed like such a good idea at the time! The narrowminded ones who had never actually held a conversation with a black person would be in a situation where they would at least have to say hello, but no more necessarily. ( Actually, I have to admit that I knew it was going to be ugly, so I didn't inform the pastor of the plan.) Ew.

Word got out to several of the people and it was kind of ugly to see how many of our church didn't show up. One family pulled into the parking lot and immediately left. The next board meetings was......um.......shall we say warm (and I don't mean in the warm fuzzy sense)?

Hey, we kept sending money for misson work to the areas of the world where blacks live, you would THINK it would dawn on them, wouldn't you?! The thing that this church didn't know, and that we only found out a couple years later, was that the white church had a reputation amongst the black churches in the area (and many of the "white" congregations as well!) of being the most narrowminded, backward, unloving bunch of folks in the state. The "black" congregations actually already considered them to be a joke and a sorry example of Christans because of their attidues. Yet THEY had been willing to show up!

You know, with all these stories you can laugh now, but at the time it made you want to throw up!
Thomas
Posted on Monday, August 02, 1999 - 6:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I can remember my senior year in academy in Michigan. Our "bible" class that year was on how to live as a grown up. This was during the Viet Nam war and many of my class was of an age that they had been informed that they would be going to war very soon. Our teacher was a "pastor" who seemed to have problems keeping a church. When it came time in the book that we were to study "human issues" (ie reproductive), we were informed that we were not to read the next few chapters, but instead would be reading "the Adventist Home". Imagine, we were old enough to be parents and old enough to die but not old enough for a rational discussion of life.

Another time I remember a faculty party at the superintendents house where a dozen pepperoni pizzas and several cases of Coke were delivered (with the bill due, of course). I never could figure out how that happened!? I do remember that they were very curious, too and we had an all night "chapel meeting" until someone confessed to their horrible crime. Fortunately, they got tired before the culprit did!

Ah yes, the "good life" Who can forget living for the "law" and being the remnant and yet laughing and shaking our heads about those terrible Pharasies. How could they have been so blind as not to recognize Jesus?

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