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So 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!

--
"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

Date: 2004-07-23 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalo-khei.livejournal.com
Playing the music on what? If he uses glasses with varying amounts of liquid in them, I will have to go to Boston to witness this.

Date: 2004-07-24 03:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sniffnoy.livejournal.com
On an electric keyboard. Except he ended up not actually doing so; he realized he couldn't learn anything that fast that quickly.

(Yes, I mean "that fast that quickly". If you're confused, read the sentence again.)

Date: 2004-07-24 11:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalo-khei.livejournal.com
Give my reading skill some credit, man.

Date: 2004-07-25 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sniffnoy.livejournal.com
I know, I know. That wasn't directed at you; I just noticed after I wrote that sentence that it ended "that fast that quickly" and thought that was funny, and thought I would point it out in a slightly insulting manner. :D

Date: 2004-07-23 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grenadier32.livejournal.com
Wait a second...you memorized Chad Gadya? The first I heard of that song was in Mr. Shanken's hebrew school class when he directed the class to make poetry styled in a similar system! (Or more accurately, the week after that, since I hadn't been there at the time.)

Date: 2004-07-24 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sniffnoy.livejournal.com
I know the words in *English*. I couldn't actually sing it off the top of my head, though I could certainly sing the tune and put in the occasional word here or there. :P

Same for Echad Mi Yodeya... I think. Some of the verses I'm not certain about.

Date: 2004-07-23 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sidepocket-pro.livejournal.com
Hmph, sounds like your having fun.

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From: (Anonymous)
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Date: 2004-07-24 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalo-khei.livejournal.com
int i = 99;
while (i > 0) {
voice << i << " bottles of beer on the wall; ";
voice << i << " bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around, ";
voice << --i << "bottles of beer on the wall! \n";
}

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