What will you be doing for Purim this Sunday?
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February 26th, 2010
Taking the kids to a special service? Dressing up? Excoriating Hamen? What do you have planned?
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I’ll be googling the word ‘Purim’.
@Blackberry I skipped Google and went straight for Wikipedia.
Being snowed in even more severely than I am now. My drive is a narrow and slippery luge run; I am up the creek without a sled and planning for an power outage.
Not planning on baking Hamentashin on my wood-burning stove, either.
@gailcalled I feel quite sympathetic. I asked this question because I will be alone, and my kids will be in the city. I had kind of hoped to do a little virtual participation in someone’s family fun. And no bakery within 100 miles of my town will have any hamentaschen.
@dpworkin : (So that’s how you spell it.) How about Verdigris in Hudson? And isn’t there a nice bakery around the corner on Warren St, heading towards river?
You think they know from Hamentaschen?
Probably shoveling snow the way things have been going lately. Purim was never a big deal for us anyway.
However, maybe we can share some virtual hamentaschen. Or if you want real cookies, I baked some toll house ones the morning….....
I will be baking hamentaschen, and probably sharing them with my Monday night knitting group., if there’s any left by then!
Oh, but @janbb, Purim is so much fun! It’s a real kid’s holiday. Plus, you get to read the, you know, Megillah!
Mourning the failure of Haman.~
Die gantze magillah?
Actually, David was once in a Purim play at Hebrew school where he got to say he was the prettiest girl. It was quite a coup for that shy kid to be able to do it. We were very proud. But no kids in sight at the moment…....
I have steel-cut oatmeal and coconut cauliflower soup available. So Jewish…but you’re welcome to share. Bring your shoeshoes or 24 Huskies. And wear your gatkes.
We’re having some people over and we’ll be making hamentashens. I think we might also be going to a Purim Carnival although those kind of drive me nuts.
You should look into your local shul and see if they’re doing a carnival.
@Rarebear : The only way to find my local shul is to look for the chimney sticking out above the drifts.
@gailcalled Yeah, sorry about that. That sort of does put a damper on the celebrations.
Crack me up!! I am going to be Jewish for the day Saturday!!
“Purim comes with its own set of unique commandments and the most surprising is the mitzvah to get drunk. Not just to have a sip or two of wine, but to get truly sloshed..”
Purim is the Jewish version of Mardi Gras it seems!! Woo Hoo!!
My synagogue will be holding a Purim carnival right before the Megillah reading. Since I have symphony tickets, though, I won’t be able to attend.
I will eat the Hamantaschen my parents sent me in a Shalach Manos bag. :-)
I’ll be celebrating with children in Sderot (a border city that gets bombed several times a day from Gaza) on Sunday, then celebrating at the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem on Monday for Shushan Purim!
Should be fun.
Oh, @omfgTALIjustIMDu, lucky you. My son just got home from Israel. I’m trying to get him to post pics.
Hm…I wonder what would happen if you deep fried a hamentashin.
I’ve always wanted a wanton prune.
A prune with a bug up its ass?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
@Rarebear Who would want to deep fry a ham sandwich, and do you have a cold or something? You’re talking funny.
@gailcalled It’s 65 degrees here in Kansas. Giggle! Think we might go to the lake for a bit. I’ll be thinkin’ of you. :)
@Rarebear
@Val123 is a friend, she can stay. Better yet, maybe we’ll all go to sunny Kansas and celebrate Purim there.
@janbb Well okay, but they don’t have Jews in Kansas. I think there’s a law against it or something. Actually, Val and I have known each other for a couple of years and a is good friend, so I wasn’t being mean, just teasing her
@Rarebear Oy veh!! Yes, you are always mean to me!
@janbb K! Um…what do I need to barbque for ya’ll? Can we do it at the lake? Rarebare up there can bring his bathtub beer….
@Val123 Would we need a special kind of passport or something?
@Rarebear Just yer rabies shot and yer huntin’ and fishin’ license to show at the border.
More to the point, do we have to put mayonnaise on our sandwiches?
@janbb Oy. I don’t think mayo is Kosher. I don’t think. I don’t know. But, @Rarebear‘s beer is far from kosher too. So….we’ll let him make that call.
@Val123 Mayo is kosher. It’s pareve, too, if I’m not mistaken, so you can eat with dairy or meat.
@Dr_Dredd (Honestly, I really couldn’t tell whether any given thing is Kosher or not…I kind of know the definition of the word, but not really what it means.) Now @Rarebear is going to jump in with a definition of “kosher” and he’ll some how tie it in with warping time and space and string theory. Happens every time.
@val123 My beer is perfectly kosher. It’s just not kosher for Passover. My beer is so kosher that when you drink it, time warps, space contracts, and when you hit your face on the ground you see dancing strings.
Oh! OW!! I read that 5 minutes ago, unable to reply because I’m laughing too hard. Ow! My ribs hurt!
@jfos That is answer no less obscene than bemoaning the failure of Hitler to exterminate every last Jew in the world!
Moderators: For your information, Haman’s goal was to exterminate all the Jews in the then known world!
If @jfos intended that meaning, then his response requires a strong response.
Promoting genocide is not tolerated here (I believe).
@Dr_Lawrence He included a tilde (~) which is a Fluther convention for sarcasm.
Jewish holidays are all about—They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat!
@Rarebear What else would a holiday be about?
I guess I missed the ~.
Maybe the convention requires ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ for old folks like me.
@Dr_Lawrence It was a whispered comment anyway. Easy to miss. I didn’t find it that funny myself, actually.
This year nothing. The kids are too big, there was a party last night (I skipped it). Pretty much nothing at all – sadly.
Eating a bacon and pork sandwich and casting lots.
I think bacon may actually be pork.
@Rarebear That’s some heavy-duty beer! Also, I’ve heard the same explanation for Jewish holidays. Love it!
It looks as though I will spend Purim shoveling snow. Drifts up to 40” in places.
One man’s pork is another man’s bacon?
@janbb: Bacon your pardon, but no. And if you were Spanish, I would add, ”?Por que no?””
Or we could ask the greatest ham of all times, Serrano de Bergerac?
@janbb: I thought that he was a red (or yellow), hot chile pepper?
No, that’s a rock group, silly.
I thought you might jalapeno like that. Adobolieve, it’s a type of ham too.
“Bacon” and “Pork” refers to cuts of pig, FYI
Oh, really? Which cut is the “pork” cut?
Chops, tenderloin, for example.
Then there’s pork as used as a verb.
Example: I porked whatever member of your family upsets you most.
You aren’t even entertaining any more. I hope Fluther starts to bore you.
Yeah – what happened to this fun thread?
A moron seems to have happened to it.
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