Author: ham

  • Ham in the Bible

    Genesis 5:32 indicates that Noah became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth from the age of 500 years old, but does not list in detail their specific years. (Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood in Genesis 7.) An incident involving Ham is related in Genesis 9:20-27. 20And Noah began…

  • War hero receives medal of honor

    War hero receives medal of honor for sending cruise missile against cave men. “The launch button was stuck so I hit it with a hammer,” he recalls. “You know how dangerous that is? More dangerous than running with scissors.” The Taliban say they have recovered 160 mutilated bodies from Kadam village after it was completely…

  • Tattle Tales

  • Gordon Bacon of Pulse Canada

    Pulses are annual leguminous crops yielding between one and 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, used for both food and feed.  The term “pulses” is limited to crops harvested solely for dry grain, thereby excluding crops harvested green for food, which are classified as vegetable crops, as well as…

  • The egg of my eye

  • Ma mere l’oye

    Mother Goose has but one eye. My former teacher is heavy with child. The son of my sister lives in the city. He sells wind to buy eggplants for the inn. In the days before the fish developed thumbs.

  • My plea

    She came to voice my piano the odd Thursday until I run afowl of the Law. Two counts of aquascutum perpetrated in an alcoholic bikini.

  • If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half

    If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will five hens lay in 6 days? 5 hens would lay 5 eggs in a day and a half. In 6 days, there are 4 day-and-a-half 5 x 4 = 20 (each hen lays…

  • Take an egg and pierce it with a sword

    Michael Maier [1568 –1622] Atalanta Fugiens Oppenheim: Johann Theodor de Bry, 1617 Alchemy web site

  • The broken pole

    A few years ago during the Olympics, a skier from just down the road broke her pole during a race. The coach from Norway, a rival team, handed her a new pole, and she went on to win the race. In appreciation the people of Canada sent the coach a shipload of maple syrup. The…