“Galaxy Quest”. Tim Allen —— One of my favorite movies and I have never watched Star Trek or any of its offspring
There's always Spaceballs. See the image at post 50. "It's that simple."
I observe and document what many may dismiss or outright mock, so feel free to... skip... but it's what I live for. Totally worth it over the long haul. They are not the boss of me.
As for Star Trek, only TOS for me. It was prophetic, a real trip down Memory Lane:
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before!Perhaps the reference had been tucked into some obscure cubby, like maybe a midrash, but on the surface there didn't seem to be a passage that marked when the 5 years of famine finally came to an end.Genesis 45
5. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here; for God did send me before you to preserve life:
6. For these two years has the famine been in the land; and yet there are five years, when there shall neither be plowing nor harvest:
7. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance:
8. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt:
Seems like it would have been a big deal, really something to celebrate bigly, yet... crickets.
Anyway, Jacob headed on down to Goshen to keep his family fed and then what, endless syndication! At least the signs along the road kindly pointed the way to the cornflakes.
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I was reminded of the famine because of Camp David:
Speaking from Camp David where the Biden family were holed up for the weekend, Jill told the magazine “will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he’s been president.”
Because... some years back, the end of the famine topic really bothered me. There were other time markers and much commentary, such as:
Joseph had been sold down the river (De Nile, it's not just a river in Egypt) when he was 17, and then it was 22 years before he was reunited with his father (he became PM at age 30 + 7 years of plenty + 2 years into the famine).
At that point all of the 22 Hebrew letters had been used up, but wait! There were those 5 final forms (so I'd thank the tribe of Dan for making sure that they didn't drop off):
500 + 600 + 700 + 800 + 900 = 3500
The year of the reunion when Joseph was 39: 2199 + 39 = 2238, 33 years after Jacob had been dubbed "Israel", and 30 years after the death of Joseph's mother, the mother of all Israel. (Baby Benjamin was now 30 YO, named Benoni by his mother.)
Truly a blues riff in B so watch me for the changes...
Year 2238 + 3500 = 5738, which ran from Sept 12, 1977 - Oct 1, 1978.
Turns out
It was a banner year in the history of Egypt-Israel relations:
Camp David AccordsFramework for Peace in the Middle East and Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel
"Framework", it was a familiar concept.
The Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty fell on Constitution Day (191 years).
Like with Bones (framework/plot outline of a story), a constitution is the aggregate of a person's physical and psychological characteristics.
Basically what is comes down to is that in spite of the documentation in Amos 9:11, most people are simply not prepared for the revelation that the House of David is a House of Cards.
The denizens and profits of the Established, shattered, and fractured framework are determined to avoid the subject like the plague ["טיפוס"], but I learned from my handy OXford-English Hebrew Dictionary:
card "טִיפּוּס"
אדם משעשע ומקורי
(amusing and original person)
Say, isn't a trump a type of card? 🤔
Oh, it's probably nothing... the world is full of.. typos. Besides, I learned from Mount Sinai that
Endemic typhus is sometimes called "jail fever." The bacteria that cause this type of typhus is usually spread from rats to fleas to humans.
Let Freedom Ring. 'Tis the season.
People might laugh at my posts, but just one more thing is that the NYSE dubbed Sept 17th, 2001 as "Let Freedom Ring" day, because that was the day the market opened back up after 911. I saved an image of the ad, but here's a reference from 2013:
The first day of trading stocks at the exchange after the attacks was a symbol of "America getting back to business," said Adamonis. The NYSE ran a full-page advertisement in New York-based newspapers, dubbing Sept. 17, 2001, "Let Freedom Ring" day at the exchange. Reopening the exchange "steeled our collective determination to never let cowardice, intolerance and evil sway this great and free society from its strong and sure course towards a better tomorrow," the ad said.https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2013/08/10/nyse-bell-ringers/2568563/
"Bell-ringers" -- sounds like the same type of people who would strike a nerve. Depends on perspective.