Except for me, who would be over there in the corner laughing hysterically because I find that funny - but then, I'm not the sort to insist my guests engage in rituals they find meaningless or even offensive.Darth Wong wrote:I'll say this: I remain silent during the dinner prayer if someone else is leading it, but I sure as hell won't speak a dinner prayer which even vaguely implies that I'm thanking some ancient Jewish baby-killing psycho-deity for my food. If I did say something, I would have to thank someone like Willis Carrier for inventing the refrigeration technology that made possible our modern supermarket food distribution system. And if I did that, in all sincerity, people would get all pissed off at me for making a mockery of the dinner prayer.
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Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice
