Comments on: Can Jews Have Sex During Hanukkah?

By: V-Grrrl

V-Grrrl — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:59:11 +0000

I spent Thanksgiving eating a Filet-o-Fish sandwich at the McD’s in Rome.

I also visited the Jewish Ghetto there where the nice Christians segregated and persecuted their Jewish *friends* and REQUIRED them to listen to sermons on Sunday. Sheesh.

By: darlin't

darlin't — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:35:43 +0000

It’s funny, I grew up in Texas and yet football was never a part of my Thanksgiving. In fact, we never really even turned on the television on that day. We had family slideshows though.

This year I caught part of the parade on TV and GOOD LORD! I don’t know how people can watch that crap. You’re lucky you missed it.

By: Crankster

Crankster — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:50:36 +0000

Football isn’t so much a gentile thing as an idiot thing.

By: Otir

Otir — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:43:43 +0000

Ha ha ha! love your posts Neil (I know I am one day too late again, but I’m sure that’s okey).

I also was invited at my non-Jewish friends for Thanksgiving, and I love it. I don’t know why, but my Jewish friends simply don’t remember me when it comes to inviting us, so I have to be happy like that (otherwise I would easily go on terrible lashonhara here).

Yesterday I was asked to say graces after they said theirs, I guess my host wanted to be nice to me, but he mentioned “and you will say graces for us in yiddish”, I had to apologize, that I would say something nice too, but in English (my son would have fainted to hear me say something in Yiddish that I don’t speak at all of course, why would French Jews speak yiddish after all?).

We did not have football but Macy’s parade on Tivo, does that count?

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:09:23 +0000

For a French woman, I have, over the years, appropriated all that good, American Thanksgiving stuff rather nicely:
- I ate too much turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, and yams casserole (the only thing that I prepared myself were the mashed potatoes and the gravy - my sweetheart made the turkey and stuffing, our guests brought a yams casserole and also a corn-based casserole.)
- I watched football. A sport I actually like. We wanted the Dolphins to lose, because they had defeated the Chicago Bears a few weeks ago. Damn, they won.
- I conked out in front of the tube at roughly 8:00 p.m. It’s that tryptophan in the turkey.

And - no, you can’t have sex during Hanukkah. You need to find a gentile to do it for you (there is some background to this - I’ll blog about it tomorrow.)

By: fringes

fringes — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:19:39 +0000

The picture you chose to illustrate Thanksgiving day football is a dead giveaway that you have no idea at all what’s going on. Fakery is out of the question for you, my friend. I hope someone was at the dinner bringing back the sexy Bach, giving you someone to talk to.

By: NSC

NSC — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:49:36 +0000

Neil,

Give me the gender that smells good and has tits over grunting male football fans any day of the week.

It’s like that Kids in the Hall comedy skit where this one island native guy is chastised by his friend for staying in the villiage with the women while the rest of the men go out to hunt the great white shark. Shark-hunter keeps trying to convince “Stay behind guy” that he cannot be a man if he doesn’t join the hunt, but keeps getting interrupted by the women of the village as they stroll by reminding stay-behind guy that he needs to stop by and “fix their plumbing” or whatever little chore that needs doing.

It’s obvious to everyone but the shark-hunter that the real man is staying behind taking care of business while the other guys hunting.

Which reminds me, most of the guys on the street are out deer hunting about now so I must take my leave - things to do you know.

By: Sandra Dee

Sandra Dee — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:32:07 +0000

You chose an excellent picture to depic football, my friend.

I love my Cowpokes.

The Dallas game was fun, no?

(Who says girls can’t like football?! :))

By: Sedulia

Sedulia — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:57:27 +0000

One of the things I lo-o-o-o-ve about Thanksgiving in France.

By: bella

bella — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:09:51 +0000

I just Thank You Neil! Cause you are the President and all. Should I bow down now?