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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 11 views • unknown
5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Kriti Arunkundrum, a junior from San Jose reflected on the positive side of COVID-19 in an article for the Mercury News. She wrote, “I think that this time in quarantine has made me slow down my fast-paced life and do many activities for my own enjoyment. It has been a small relief from the constant…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Seattle residents knew Alan Naiman for his thriftiness. He patched his shoes with duct tape, buying food at the end of the day at the supermarket, and taking his friends to lunch at fast-food restaurants. Friends said Naiman was not married and had no children. Though he was intensely private, he stockpiled…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Consumers responded so positively to Popeyes new chicken sandwiches that the fast-food chain had to post signs outside their stores that they had run out. A Chick-fil-A store in Houston postied “FYI We don’t run out of Chicken Sandwiches” on their sign in response. A nearby Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
Many customers say that McDonald’s soda tastes better than soda from other fast food chains. What makes the difference? Is it the special machines? Is it the slightly larger straw? The water filtration system? The insulated and chilled tubes in the soda machine? The small additional syrup to compensate…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When he didn’t get the sauce with his Chicken McNuggets, Robert Golwitzer allegedly called McDonalds to threaten to blow the place up. The satisfaction he might have felt was short-lived however, because the Ankeny, Iowa police arrested him for the bomb threat. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bomb-threat-mcdonalds_n_60da2b7be4b09ead19f713ce…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A Florida woman who was feeling generous started a pay-it-forward chain that lasted for hours. When the woman paid for her meal at a fast food restaurant, she told the cashier that she wanted to pay for the meal of the car behind her. When the cashier told the next car that their meal had been paid for,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Huner Hostetler, a cashier at a restaurant in Scottsburg, Indiana said a woman waiting in the line decide to pay for the big order of a man with four children in a van behind her. She asked Hostetler to wish the man “Happy Father’s Day.” Hostetler said the gesture prompted the man to pay for two cars…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Researchers have discovered another interesting item about the way God designed human beings. Studies indicate that color may have an influence on the taste buds. In a specific study, scientists found that orange-colored cups make hot chocolate taste better. The researchers allowed participants to sample…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Antonius Hart Sr. and his son Antonius Hart Jr. drove away from the Pirtle’s Chicken restaurant without realizing the server forgot to add the wings they ordered. When they returned and complained the restaurant offered them replacement wings but that did not satisfy them--they demanded extra chicken…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
David Kime was a WWII veteran. After his funeral at age 88, his funeral cortege slowly passed through the drive-thru lane at Kime’s favorite Burger King. Each of the 39 mourners had a burger and a 40th burger was placed on Kime’s casket and buried with him. When I reach the final judgment I hope my life…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 4 views
Published January 26, 2013 Associated Press YORK, Pa. – Mourners at a Pennsylvania fast-food fan's funeral wanted him to have it his way, so they arranged for his hearse -- and the rest of the procession -- to make one last drive-thru visit before reaching the cemetery. David Kime Jr. "lived by his own…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
Well, you can really increase your desire for God in the same way you increase your hunger for “real” food. I remember my first encounter with weight watchers in my twenties. I had put on a little “wedding weight.” You know, you get married and in the first five years of marriage you gain about 20 pounds.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 139 views
One of the characteristics that young people look for today in the church is authenticity. How do you know when something is authentic? When going to Panda Express for lunch we assume we are eating Chinese food. Right? Panda Express is planning to expand into China, where they will find their menu a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 41 views
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests humans have good reasons to fear snakes, and ophidiophobia may rise from the experiences of our ancestors. In the research, scientists document the way frequent python attacks affected a tribe of preliterate, hunter-gathers…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 2 views
One report says that research on media violence and its relationship to real-life aggression is substantial and convincing. Young persons learn their attitudes about violence at a very young age and, once learned, those attitudes are difficult to modify. Conservative estimates are that media violence…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Work is not a part of the fall. “Work existed before the fall. That should frame how we understand the concept of work,” says Darrow Miller from Food for the Hungry. Our philosophy of work based upon a Biblical worldview is one of the things that have made our Northern European culture successful. We…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
HUNGER When Erwin McManus was working among the urban poor in the Dallas Metroplex, a homeless man approached him to ask him for something to eat. His wife Kim handed the man Erwin's lunch, a brown paper bag filled with chips and a sandwich. Instead of saying "thank you" for the food, the man pointed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
PRIORITIES When times get hard economically, families are forced to consider what they can do without to make ends meet. A survey conducted by BIGresearch found that most people said they would not be willing to live without their Internet service, cell phones, and cable television. 81 percent of the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 1,584 views
FEAR "In The Diary of Anne Frank young Anne describes the fear she and her family felt as they hid, huddled in a small attic, from the Nazis. Every scream of Gestapo sirens sent chills of fear down their spines. They lost their breath at every knock on the front door. They lived in constant horror behind…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
DOING RIGHT Carol Birmingham said she almost had a heart attack when she realized that her visit to a fast food outlet had cost her $8700. The 62 year-old British tourist did not notice until the following morning that she had left her cash-stuffed purse on the counter of the Orlando area restaurant…
Illustration • • 10 views
Do you remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? It was the story of a real fast rabbit who told everybody that nobody could outrun him and a tortoise that accepted the challenge. So the gun goes off, the race starts, the rabbit outruns the tortoise and is so far away that he actually loses sight…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 9 views
The milk shake machine at the fast-food restaurant I manage was broken, so I had an assistant post a sign to that effect on the drive-through speaker. A short time later, a customer pulled up to the speaker. “May I take your order?” I asked. Crash, boom, bang! Came the response. I asked the customer…
Nathan Parker • Illustration • • 7 views
Unknown Author A certain German nobleman provided his son with a tutor whose duty it was to cultivate the mind and morals of the youth. One day as the tutor and his pupil were taking a walk in the country, they came to the edge of a wood, where they observed a half-felled tree, and saw lying by it a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
TEMPTATION The little calf on the end of the lasso had his feet firmly planted resisting the tug of the rope. Today Gary Wittmayer would be the "cowboy" who would throw (lay them down) the calves so that the cowboys could vaccinate, brand and make steers out of the young bulls. This was Gary's first…