Perhaps she'll die...
Jul. 22nd, 2004 06:39 pmSo apparently Dina has never heard the "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly" song before.
At dinner, Avi claimed there was a spider in his noodles, and he had accidentally eaten it, and he thought he was going to throw up. I said he should swallow a bird to catch it. Dina didn't know what we were talking about, so Steve, Aaron, and I proceeded to sing the song, with Amanda, sitting at the table behind us, trying several times to clamp her hands over our mouths.
Naturally before long the table was singing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" (though we stopped somewhere around 96), and other such songs (eg, "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves"). Dina was trying to think if there was an analogous song in Russian, and was asking Anton, and strangely enough, they couldn't think of any.
I'm sure I must have said here somewhere before that I think the best part of the Seder is forcing your parents to sing all 13 verses of Echad Mi Yodeya and however-many-verses-there-are of Chad Gadya.
I actually did say this, and Rebbecca said that in her family they sing a strange version of Chad Gadya which is in Yiddish and in which nobody wants to do anything; God doesn't want to send the angel of death who doesn't want to kill the shochet who doesn't want to slaughter the ox who doesn't want to drink the water which doesn't want to put out the fire which doesn't want to burn the stick which doesn't want to beat the dog who doesn't want to bite the cat who doesn't want to scratch the boss who doesn't want to order the worker who doesn't want to pick the apples, which don't want to fall.
...whatever happened to the goat?, I asked. She just shrugged.
When I left, Steve had just started singing "Found a peanut".
-Sniffnoy
...oh, and for the talent show, Dan Rubin is going to be playing some music by Koji Kondo. Woo!
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At dinner, Avi claimed there was a spider in his noodles, and he had accidentally eaten it, and he thought he was going to throw up. I said he should swallow a bird to catch it. Dina didn't know what we were talking about, so Steve, Aaron, and I proceeded to sing the song, with Amanda, sitting at the table behind us, trying several times to clamp her hands over our mouths.
Naturally before long the table was singing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" (though we stopped somewhere around 96), and other such songs (eg, "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves"). Dina was trying to think if there was an analogous song in Russian, and was asking Anton, and strangely enough, they couldn't think of any.
I'm sure I must have said here somewhere before that I think the best part of the Seder is forcing your parents to sing all 13 verses of Echad Mi Yodeya and however-many-verses-there-are of Chad Gadya.
I actually did say this, and Rebbecca said that in her family they sing a strange version of Chad Gadya which is in Yiddish and in which nobody wants to do anything; God doesn't want to send the angel of death who doesn't want to kill the shochet who doesn't want to slaughter the ox who doesn't want to drink the water which doesn't want to put out the fire which doesn't want to burn the stick which doesn't want to beat the dog who doesn't want to bite the cat who doesn't want to scratch the boss who doesn't want to order the worker who doesn't want to pick the apples, which don't want to fall.
...whatever happened to the goat?, I asked. She just shrugged.
When I left, Steve had just started singing "Found a peanut".
-Sniffnoy
...oh, and for the talent show, Dan Rubin is going to be playing some music by Koji Kondo. Woo!
--
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from
the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams
