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funranium

Completely Fictitious Jewish Wedding Customs

Feb 22, 2012 14:03

My friend Ed is getting married soon and has been completely bamboozled and befuddle by all the traditions and customs coming out of the woodwork. You see, he is both Jewish and English...and not terribly observant on either account. I tried to give reassurances that I knew *ALL* the customs and could try to sort them out for him. What followed was ( Read more... )

weddinge, bullshit

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morbid_curious February 22 2012, 22:14:57 UTC

I see you're Helping again, aren't you.
:-)

funranium February 22 2012, 22:21:07 UTC

I sure am!

zentiger February 22 2012, 23:29:52 UTC

I hope you know that you're my hero for this.

(Also, you'll probably find this amusing: the intro course I'm TAing this quarter just started talking about death, so I opened discussions yesterday with "Don't Fear the Reaper".)

funranium February 23 2012, 00:36:33 UTC

Oh my. This sounds like good times.

Also, are you ever going to make it to the distillery with us? The legendarily horribly uncomfortable futon is available as ever.

zentiger February 23 2012, 00:59:39 UTC

I do hope soon to be able to come visit, but I've got a hard deadline coming up in a couple of weeks so I can't predict when I'll be free. Christina is mostly off on Saturdays now, so if that's in general a good day, we could probably do that.

zentiger February 23 2012, 01:00:20 UTC

Also, more than half of my students actually recognized it! Which surprised me, since they're children of the 90s and missed ... y'know, everything.

bilunabirotunda February 23 2012, 07:51:24 UTC

Stay sweet, Phil!

I now feel compelled to write stories about the Good Queen Marzipan. This may be the least odd offshoot of your post.

What about Scottish wedding customs? What can you possibly do to haggis that haggis has not already done?!

funranium February 23 2012, 08:44:00 UTC

"Crotchcrofter" is a noble but barely known profession these days. It's was a designated role for the blind mutes of yore who could be trusted to create the marzipan genitalia of royalty, without seeing their work nor telling of it.

bilunabirotunda March 4 2012, 01:44:48 UTC

So...since a croft is a farm, I guess they actually farm the genitalia...blindly and mutely. That makes sense.

delicious_irony February 25 2012, 06:40:37 UTC

Sweet angels on pogosticks - fiercely intelligent, redheaded, and bullshits like a champion; be still my beating heart..