This Cambridge University press office(CUPO) handout shows two of the four teddy bears that were lauched to the edge of space. Four teddy bears, fully decked out in custom-made spacesuits, were launched to the edge of space this week as part of a British university experiment. |
Jewish Christmas
As a teacher, Ms. Jones, was very curious about how each of her students celebrated Christmas. She called on young Patrick Murphy. Tell me Patrick what do you do at Christmas time? She asked.
Patrick addressed the class, Well Ms. Jones, me and my twelve brothers and sisters go to the midnight Mass and we sing hymns, then we come home very late and we put mince pies by the back door and hang up our stockings. Then all excited we go to bed and wait for Father Christmas to come with all our toys.
Very nice Patrick, she said. Now Jimmy Brown what do you do at Christmas?
Well, Ms. Jones, me and my sister also go to Church with Mum and Dad and we sing carols and we get home ever so late. We put cookies and milk by the chimney and we hang up our stockings. We hardly sleep, waiting for Santa Claus to bring our presents.
Realizing there was a Jewish boy in the class and not wanting to leave him out of the discussion, she asked, Now, Isaac Cohen, what do you do at Christmas?
Isaac said, Well, it’s the same thing every year. Dad comes home from the office. We all pile into the Rolls Royce, then we drive to his toy factory. When we get inside, we look at all the empty shelves and begin to sing “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”. Then we all go to the Bahamas. |
Winter may not “officially” be here for another couple weeks but my weather thing says there are only 7 degrees out there and that spells WINTER!
Tracey and I picked up Mom’s car from the repair shop yesterday and delivered it to her house for her. They had to replace the whole ignition assembly because it had “locked up”. I didn’t get the entire story but it seems an internal plastic part had broken and clogged up the works.
From Mom’s we went to the Cracked Barrel for some breakfast and then back home. We both took a nice Saturday afternoon nap too!
Tracey went to her unit Christmas party last evening while I went out to dinner with Mom and DD. No astounding news from DD and Mom is much the same except for being unsettled about all her car repairs lately.
I am relearning how much I bang the ends of my fingers during a normal day and finding it difficult to avoid using those mashed fingers for many things. I have been trying to use my left hand whenever I can but it is my stupid hand and never does anything right. (No pun intended, it just happened.) |
MjL 07 Dec 2008, 06:03 a.m.
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