Men who put their foots in it

Meet Ishmael
Having grown up just outside New York City, he barely knew a cow from an ear of corn. Until, that is, he married a small town Ohio girl.

"While I was in seminary school, I had a temporary assignment at a church in a rural community.

The day of my first sermon, I tried very hard to fit in. Maybe too hard.

With my wife sitting in the first pew, I began my discourse, "I never saw a cow until I met my wife."

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