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Mar 10 04: parting the red wig
So I was talking about this product with a friend here at work today…
ANDY: Okay, I can identify all the plagues but the upside-down one on the bottom. What is that, Hair on Fire?
KAREN: Apparently he’s a little hailstone, although Estelle suggested it could be the Plague of Clowns.
Oh, right. You remember:
“And Moses spake unto Pharaoh, saying, let my people go; but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and Pharaoh would not release them. And so Moses did as the LORD had said, and struck himself with in the face with a pie, and bade the children of Israel to do likewise; and soon afterwards all of Egypt shook beneath the tread of big floppy shoes. And the LORD sent a multitude of clowns into the land, and the children of Egypt ran in fear from the honking noses and the pratfalls and the little yippy dogs jumping and dancing, and the juggling pins falling upon the ground like hail, and their dreams were troubled by the unnatural smiles and the hair upon the heads of the clowns, which was as flame. And everywhere was the shpritzing of the seltzer bottles, and still Pharaoh would not release the children of Israel.”
Estelle and I agree that this would be the bit where the Seder really got fun. (And then I thought, actually, it would probably start to feel like Purim, which confirms that I’ve been living in this town a long time now.)
Commentary
Holy Crap. That plague is TOTALLY upon my house.
It is the plague of the jew-fro. Oi.
FYI - Judaica.com owes you a favor - I ordered those puppets within five minutes of reading your post. My little cousins will be very pleased.
FYI 2 - Old testament clown bit - vv funny
posted by Sari, Mar 11 04 11:02 AM
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