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saerah gray

Lynn from Fargo > fnord
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> On Sep 17, 6:16*pm, Saerah Gray > wrote:
>> blake murphy >
>> fnordnews:9sbchbgztmmj.s27j7hnx
> :
>>
>> > 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
> =============================
> 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
>

A tenacious bunch, we are!

--
Saerah (whose dinner tonight was kishke and onions and some sliced
tomatoes. I got a hankering.)

"Welcome to Usenet, Biatch! Adapt or haul ass!"
- some hillbilly from FL