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Hema

Sweet n Spicy
Raghav, are you waking the night for Shivratri? Some folks are celebrating it tonight. Some Mandirs had it last night. We went last night...didn't wake the entire night though. If we didn't have to work today we would have stayed the entire night.
 

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
You got David right,Penguino, but the other two are wrong. The prophet was Elijah and the wife was Rebekah (Isaac's wife). :)
 

Smoke

Done here.
You got David right,Penguino, but the other two are wrong. The prophet was Elijah and the wife was Rebekah (Isaac's wife). :)
I like all those. I prefer the Greek Elias, but that's probably even more unusual than Elijah.

One of my ancestors had children named Elizabeth, Samuel and Obadiah by his first wife, and children named Zerubbabel, Jonathan, Theophilus, Annabel, Ephraim, Obadiah, and Abigail by his second wife. (When a child died, they sometimes re-used the name.) No big surprise that he was a Puritan minister.

Annabel sticks out like a sore thumb in that group, though.

I'm descended from Theophilus.
 

Smoke

Done here.
I sent my husband to McDonald's to pick up supper last night, because I didn't feel like cooking and I didn't have enough cash to pay for Thai food. It was the single most god-awful and unsatisfying meal I've had in months. It was worse than the night I made leftover hash with rice and beans and hotdogs and shrimp; at least then I could pick out the hotdogs, but if you pick out the bad parts of McDonald's, there's nothing left.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
I'm descended from Theophilus.
I wonder how people would react when a parent shows up at school with a kid named Abimelech (Abi for short, I guess).

"Interesting name."

"Thank you - it's Biblical." ;)

While not strictly Biblical, I think that the weirder saint names (like the ones you only see as town names in Quebec) would be neat. Nothing like naming your kid Polycarp, Zotique or Telesphore, right? :D

I sent my husband to McDonald's to pick up supper last night, because I didn't feel like cooking and I didn't have enough cash to pay for Thai food. It was the single most god-awful and unsatisfying meal I've had in months. It was worse than the night I made leftover hash with rice and beans and hotdogs and shrimp; at least then I could pick out the hotdogs, but if you pick out the bad parts of McDonald's, there's nothing left.
A friend of mine ended up writing a few angry letters to McDonald's over an incident that happened when we were in high school.

They were having a sale on cheeseburgers, to the point where they were actually cheaper than hamburgers. He didn't want a cheeseburger, though - he wanted a hamburger. He told the cashier "cheeseburger, hold the cheese." She refused. He changed his order to "cheeseburger, cheese on the side". She still refused. Eventually, he just ordered a cheeseburger and just picked the cheese off it.

BTW - when scavenging food from the fridge, Eggo-style waffles make a surprisingly good substitute for sandwich bread. They're excellent with mayonnaise, summer sausage and cheddar cheese... or at least that's my opinion.
 

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
When I don't feel like cooking dinner, I get John (my husband) to buy a lasagna.

There was once a character on The Waltons called Zadok. There seem to be dozens of Zadoks in the OT.
 

Smoke

Done here.
Horton Hears a Who?
John wants to see the Horton Hears a Who movie. I am opposed on the grounds that (a) it has Jim Carrey in it and (b) it was done right the first time. Turns out John has never seen the cartoon version. So now I have to find a copy.
 

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
a who and a what?

'Who" was cousin Zadok Walton who was a character one show of the 70s drama show The Waltons.

"What" is Lasagna, which is an Italian casserol made of pasta, tomato sauce, Ricotta (or cottage) cheese, and Mozzarella, and maybe parmesan. It can have meat, too but doesn't really need it.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
On special occasions, the meat can be ground Zadok. :D

John wants to see the Horton Hears a Who movie. I am opposed on the grounds that (a) it has Jim Carrey in it and (b) it was done right the first time. Turns out John has never seen the cartoon version. So now I have to find a copy.
They did a movie version of Horton Hears a Who and it's starring Jim Carrey? That's just wrong.

Nothing against him personally - I like a lot of his stuff... but it's not right to his In Living Color ad-libbing thing with Dr. Seuss.
 
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