On Sep 17, 6:16*pm, Saerah Gray > wrote:
> blake murphy > :
>
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:06:53 -0700 (PDT), Karen wrote:
>
> >> On Sep 15, 8:07*pm, Orlando Enrique Fiol > wrote:
> >>> I don't know about you, but celebrating that unfortunate period of
> >>> history doesn't seem fun to me.
>
> >> Conquerors, imperialists, dictators, have been a part of the entire
> >> human history. The celebration comes in the survivalists.
>
> >> Karen
>
> > i've always liked this brief summary of the jewish holiday *purim*:
>
> > 'they tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat!'
>
> It's most definitely appropriate to Purin, but suits a number of other
> holidays.
>
> Hell, we eat matzah on Pesach *because* it was the only thing we had to
> eat!
>
> --
> Saerah
>
> "Welcome to Usenet, Biatch! *Adapt or haul ass!"
> - some hillbilly from FL
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Saereleh . . .

I always heard that as "4,000 Years of Jewish History in 9 Words":
"They tried to kill us. We won. Let's eat. "

b'ahavah.
Lynn in Fargo