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Default Ham on Easter and Other Blasphemies (was This Ng and WhatI don't get! RANT!)

Ranee Mueller wrote:
> In article >,
> Damsel in dis Dress > wrote:
>
>
>>They're just jealous, Nancy. Forget about them (I can't spell the New
>>Yawk version). They're all having lamb for Easter dinner because they
>>don't understand the intricacies of preparing ham. Jealous, I tell
>>ya!

>
>
> Ham?!! Ham on Easter??!! You know that is sacrilege. I'll have to
> report you.
>
> I actually do find it bizarre to have a ham on a holiday that
> celebrates the resurrection of a Jew, but I don't have a problem with
> other people eating them. Just not at my house.


About 10 years ago, there was an article in one of the local papers
about a family where one parent was Jewish and one Christian. They
served a charoset-stuffed ham on Easter. Sort of takes the meaning away
from both holidays, no?

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Adam Bowman wrote:
>I always wonder when someone brings up a point about Bush, and you
> then bring up something that Clinton did, are you saying they are both
> wrong? Because that's all it points out to me, places where they both
> messed up. It doesn't negate the fact that Bush did wrong; was that
> your intention?
>
> That type of argument is like
>
> "Bob shot someone"
>
> "Yeah, but don't you remember when Don hit that guy with a bat?"
>