On 12/25/2016 2:52 PM, Bill wrote:
On 12/25/2016 1:45 PM, mike wilson wrote:
On 25 December 2016 at 17:48 Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
Boris Liberman wrote:
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (soon to come) and Kosher Hannukah...
Well, I suppose the last one is somewhat improvised, because it is
customary to wish Kosher Passover, but the spirit of things is clear,
right?
May the new year (no matter which faith or lack thereof you practice)
be fruitful, healthy, and joyful for you and for your dear ones.
And a happy Whiskymas to you as well. Or as they say on the pig farm,
Hog Samayach.
I'm not sure Boris will appreciate a pork-based greeting but I stand in
slack-mouthed wonder at your ability to offer one.
Without wanting to offend anyone's sensibilities (I am a very sensitive
guy), the whole pork thing that the Jews and Muslims are so put off by
is one of those cave dwelling holdovers that deserves to be put to rest.
An Iranian Muslim friend explained it thusly: In biblical times, pigs
were so infested with parasites that eating the meat from one could make
a person somewhere between very ill and very dead.
So, a religious decree saying the animals were unclean came about, and
to this day, the story sticks.
The fact that we now have things like antibiotics, refrigeration and
food inspections has not sunk into the heads of some of the population.
Merry Christmas from your resident atheist. We are having chicken. for
supper, but bacon was served at breakfast.
FWIW, it was explained to me that desert dwelling nomads didn't have the
fuel to cook pork well enough to kill the parasites larva.
Plus wild/feral hogs are really NASTY (not that domestic pigs are much
improved). They'll eat anything, including human bodies.
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