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Passing over

April 23, 2005

Show of hands: how many of you, whenever you are watching or reading anything remotely related to The Book of Exodus, Moses or Rameses II, cannot get the images of Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner out of your head? Just wondering.

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Last night, some of my coworkers were trying to get the skinny on the whole Passover thing, and were asking the Jewish coworker what it represented. “Hell, I don’t remember” It has something to do with Egyptians killing sons that didn’t have goat’s blood on the door something.”

“No, that’s not it” I interjected, “God was angry that the Pharaoh had ignored the plagues that he had brought on Egypt, and sent the Angel of Death to kill the first born of every household in the land of Egypt. He warned Moses, telling him the Israelites were to mark the entrance of their households with lamb’s blood. The Angel of Death passed over the homes of the Israelites, but killed the first born of every other household, Pharaoh briefly agreed to allow the Israelites to leave, and they fled before they had could bake their bread for the journey. Passover marks the end of the time of slavery for the Israelites.”

“Fuck” the jewish coworker said, “how hell do you remember that crap? I went to Hebrew school for years, and I don’t remember any of that bullshit.”

“Oh, when I was a little kid, I had an awesome illustrated Bible. The plagues were my favorite part.”

The thing was, I wasn’t kidding. But man, did I get a great laugh out of that one.

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Comments

Are you poking fun at the Jewish religion here? Some Jews could get offended. Unlike your Jewish co-worker, some don't consider Passover "bullshit". You could get yourself in trouble.

Posted by: Romarkin at April 24, 2005 07:44 PM

Real Writer Romarkin,

Congratulations, you came in right on schedule. I had predicted you would slither and seethe for a couple of days before you expelled one of your characteristic piles of vile on me.

Just in case you forgot my assessment of your opinions and general character, let me quote myself for you:

“Romarkin, I think the point that Jwer was trying to make is that you're a blaring schmuck. You're prickly, you're obnoxious, and you have a special talent phrasing everything in as offensive and hurtful a way as humanly possible. EVERYONE HATES YOU. Everyone hated you when you were the mad raunter back when you would tell the world that you were actually a real writer because you were dumb enough to waste your money on some bullshit vanity press. Then you would explain to the world that the fact that you had a basement full these unwanted books somehow made you somehow an authority on writing. You would leave a trail of bile everywhere you went and then cried like a baby when no one wanted to engage in your worthless hateful dialogue.

You’re worthless. Perhaps we’re all worthless, but you’re a special kind of worthless. You’re hateful and worthless. You get off on being hurtful for no good reason. Why? Trust me, you have nothing negative or positive to contribute to any dialogue about anything.

Do the world a favor, slit your own throat. If you cannot muster the courage to do the right thing and raise a blade to your jugular, than do the second best thing and just shut up already. "That's what I think!"”

and:

“It cracks you up because I made the mistake of validating you. You equate spreading misery with personal amusement. You have, without a doubt, the ugliest personality I have ever come across.”

So this is how it is. It is my turn to be the target of your miserable hateful little comments, isn’t it? This is going to be your way of telling me to mind my own business and not interrupt you as you are enjoying spreading the vomit that is you.

Lucky me, eh?

Just to let you know ahead of time, I am banning you from commenting here. Not to imply you care, or that this is some grand gesture or anything. It is just that you are both horrid and worthless and I don't want to waste anymore time with you.

But because I think it is lame to ban someone after blasting them in my comment section without letting them one last opportunity to be an ass, I'm going to wait a couple of days before I ban your IP address.

Feel free to spread your shit all over here one last time, but choose your words carefully, you'll only have one chance.

Posted by: eebmore at April 24, 2005 09:13 PM

But I thought you liked it when people comment.

Posted by: dabrettman at April 24, 2005 10:11 PM

hahahaha! Yes, but admittedly, there are exceptions to every rule.

Posted by: eebmore at April 24, 2005 10:13 PM
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