Is this supposed to be Egypt…? Or is it really Hollywood?? RIBBIT!!
What if people in the past acted with the same mannerisms of people in the present? So what if Pharoah was a Hollywood Executive thinking Moses was pitching a movie idea and…
Yeah…. there’s nothing more than that. That there is utterly *no* parallel between the slave-master Pharoah and a Hollywood executive or between Moses bringing plagues and pitching a movie idea doesn’t seem to matter.
I’m thinking it’s mainly an attempt to say a plague of frogs sounds silly. After a quick visit to Wikipedia it still seems the least deadly of the plagues, more a disgusting annoyance than a source of death and destruction.
In Christopher Moore’s “Lamb” there was a running joke that the plague of frogs was one stupid angel’s not understanding the Egyptians weren’t kosher and they just ate the legs. …. Hmm, it was worded a little better…. Been a while (5 months) since I’ve read it. Guess I’m due to read it again.
In the more modern translations, this one’s replaced by “No wi-fi.”
Here in the Northeast we have a plague of squirrels right now. About once every ten minutes one will run across the road in front of you when you are driving. The corpses of run-over squirrels are everywhere.
I second Minor Annoyance.
One of my favourite lines from Cartman. “So God makes it rain frogs? That just seems kind of mean to frogs, Kyle.”
Yeah, I second Mark in Boston’s call on the squirrel plague — pulling out of our building’s garage yesterday I noticed like 11 or 13 squirrels diving out from in front of the car, what’s up with that? We’ve been gone for three weeks, and now as the seasons abruptly turn, there’re all these squirrels… If only they would explain themselves…
As a kid/teenager, my father used to hunt squirrels (not for sport: anything he shot back in those lean years would probably have ended up in a stewpot). However, he says that these days, in just one afternoon in his backyard, he sees more squirrels than he ever glimpsed (let alone shot) in all the times he ever went hunting.
Note that the Hebrew word for “Frog”, tzfardeah, is one of those words like “deer”, “sheep”, or “fish” in English — it’s the same in singular and plural.
Thus, Rabbi Akiva speculated that it was actually the plague of FROG, not FROGS — just one giant kaiju frog stomping around Egypt destroying everything.
The Boston Globe says that there are a lot of squirrels this year because there were a lot of acorns last year.
I didn’t know squirrels hatched from acorns. Live and learn.
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Is this supposed to be Egypt…? Or is it really Hollywood?? RIBBIT!!
What if people in the past acted with the same mannerisms of people in the present? So what if Pharoah was a Hollywood Executive thinking Moses was pitching a movie idea and…
Yeah…. there’s nothing more than that. That there is utterly *no* parallel between the slave-master Pharoah and a Hollywood executive or between Moses bringing plagues and pitching a movie idea doesn’t seem to matter.
I’m thinking it’s mainly an attempt to say a plague of frogs sounds silly. After a quick visit to Wikipedia it still seems the least deadly of the plagues, more a disgusting annoyance than a source of death and destruction.
In Christopher Moore’s “Lamb” there was a running joke that the plague of frogs was one stupid angel’s not understanding the Egyptians weren’t kosher and they just ate the legs. …. Hmm, it was worded a little better…. Been a while (5 months) since I’ve read it. Guess I’m due to read it again.
In the more modern translations, this one’s replaced by “No wi-fi.”
Here in the Northeast we have a plague of squirrels right now. About once every ten minutes one will run across the road in front of you when you are driving. The corpses of run-over squirrels are everywhere.
I second Minor Annoyance.
One of my favourite lines from Cartman. “So God makes it rain frogs? That just seems kind of mean to frogs, Kyle.”
Yeah, I second Mark in Boston’s call on the squirrel plague — pulling out of our building’s garage yesterday I noticed like 11 or 13 squirrels diving out from in front of the car, what’s up with that? We’ve been gone for three weeks, and now as the seasons abruptly turn, there’re all these squirrels… If only they would explain themselves…
As a kid/teenager, my father used to hunt squirrels (not for sport: anything he shot back in those lean years would probably have ended up in a stewpot). However, he says that these days, in just one afternoon in his backyard, he sees more squirrels than he ever glimpsed (let alone shot) in all the times he ever went hunting.
Note that the Hebrew word for “Frog”, tzfardeah, is one of those words like “deer”, “sheep”, or “fish” in English — it’s the same in singular and plural.
Thus, Rabbi Akiva speculated that it was actually the plague of FROG, not FROGS — just one giant kaiju frog stomping around Egypt destroying everything.
The Boston Globe says that there are a lot of squirrels this year because there were a lot of acorns last year.
I didn’t know squirrels hatched from acorns. Live and learn.