Tall Tale
Jason Filley jfilley@primary.net
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:31:39 -0600 (00917955099, 36B68DBB.E00068FD@primary.net)
How in the heck are ya, Joseph ?!?
JASON
Boy, have I got a story for you!
My wife's friend Jenny at work just had a baby boy yesterday. When
Jenny decided to have a baby, she and her husband decided to make a
weekend of it. They planned on conceiving the baby on a weekend about 9
1/2 months ago and didn't want anything to distract them. So, they set
up a refrigerator in the bedroom and filled the fridge with plenty of
food. They already had the bathroom off the master bedroom, so they
shut the bedroom door and spent two whole days in the bedroom <ahem>
performing the marriage act. For two whole days, they stayed in that
room and just worked on making a baby.
Now Jenny has the biggest plaid fetish of anyone I've ever met --
EVERYTHING in their bedroom is plaid (and it drives her husband nuts).
The bedspread is plaid. The pillowcases are plaid. The pillows
themselves are plaid. The wallpaper is plaid. The carpet is plaid.
The refrigerator is plaid. The curtains are plaid. EVERYTHING in their
bedroom is plaid.
You'll never guess what. When they spent two whole days surrounded by
plaid, looking at plaid, and they conceived the baby, guess what? Yup,
their baby is PLAID!!!
Who can believe it?
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> CREA
> Precisely WHICH account or the speckled sheep/goats are you referring to
> -- the one at Genesis 30:27-42, (which presents the process as "natural"
> one), or the one at Genesis 31:10-12 (where the event is explained as
> nothing less than the miraculous intervention of ole YHWH himself)?
JASON
This one:
Genesis (ASV) "{30:37} And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of
the almond and of the plane-tree. And peeled white streaks in them, and
made the white appear which was in the rods. {30:38} And he set the rods
which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the
watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when
they came to drink. {30:39} And the flocks conceived before the rods,
and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted."
Who can believe it?
Regards,
Jason