Posted on 11/29/2004 6:48:19 AM PST by BellStar
You forgot about the annual "Airing of Grievances".
I'm getting very sick of the glib equation of quanza with the real Holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah that we see in the media.
Religious holidays that are thousands of years old are being lumped in with this nutball ripoff stunt and it is driving me to anger.
What was the name of the character that visited his show periodically? Listerina or something? I remember "her" mentioning her daughters K-Martia (conceived in the parking lot), Chlamydia, etc.
The Greek word in John 10.22 for the feast is ta enkainia, "feast of renovation" (or "consecration"). The same word is used in the Apocrypha at II Esdras 6.16-17 for the dedication of the temple (= I Esdras 7.6-7 in Goodspeed's translation of the Apocrypha).
In I Maccabees 4.59 there is an account of the rededication of the temple by Judas Maccabaeus, from which the Channuka celebration stems, but the word used there in the Septuagint is enkainismos, a word from the same root with the same meaning.
The corresponding Greek verb is used in the Septuagint version of I Kings 8.63 for Solomon's dedication of the temple.
Fewer gifts but bigger price tags-MORE
Sure wish he was back on the air here.
I'm not sure he's even on air at all anymore - I saw him on one of the Fox evening shows in the last week or two and the caption beneath him was "former radio talk show host." Shame - I enjoyed him when it played here as well.
Bump and Freep my Christmas Poll.
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Bump and Freep my Christmas Poll.
http://www.kemah.net
Bump and Freep my Christmas Poll.
http://www.kemah.net
Bump and Freep my "Christmas" Poll.
http://www.kemah.net
I'm putting all my Festivus offerings on the card this year. No more endless hours carving the Declaration of Independence into the inside of a walnut shell, just to see
it gathering dust. Nope, this year I'm going down to
Mitten World and get alpaca mittens for everyone.
Keep it simple don't you know.
bump! bump! bump!
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