Lay back and let those CD-4/CD-8 cells get to work. Throw a few plasma cells in and you'll be right before you know it lol

it might be a smart one. i'm a bit delerious so i cant make it out.

The we must rally the immune system to fight this foe!

Yes, fight and many cells may die. Run and you'll live -- at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!!

im giving up and letting the fever have its way until i have to drive home. it knows what its doing.

 

its my chanukah present. i must cherish it.

Fever is good. Crank the thyroid up to high, that'll slow the viral advance. Then we will send macrophages around to flank them and the natural killer cells in to harry them while the adaptive squadron prepare their final charge!

i'm singin a pink floyd song to myself now

Cindy, get well soon!

 

Happy chanukah too!

 

A friend of mine once brought from his honeymoon in Malta a large piece of their halva for me. It was delicious, uncomparable to the ones we can buy in Poland. And now it's all gone...

thanks, thanks, and sorry

*passes Cindy a bowl of Jewish penicillin*

*accepts warily but gratefully*

/enigmatic smiley

experience based paranoid ideation\

oh, and the holiday starts tonight at full dark. but you have eight nights to give gifts in case you were surprised by that like I was must find chocolate coins.

these are the kind of potato latkes i like best - thin and crispy, with lots of pepper and sour cream

 

another way to go is cake style latkes, usually served with apple sauce, jelly, or, in my house, sour cream. in my house sour cream was served with everything, and eaten on its own. perferred o whipped cream. fancy breakfast growing up was strawberries, bananas, brown sugar, and sour cream.

 

these just have the apple sauce.

 

you can make latkes out of any vegetable... they're really good with sweet potatoes... but i stop there. don;' need no zucchini in the latkes.

these are sufganiyot - basically donuts, usually jelly or chocolate filled. and fried. always fried. never baked.

 

the fried business is about the oil miracle that became associated with chanukah to get it onto the calendar as an official holiday back in the day.

 

to get an official holiday there has to be a miracle. and chanukah... was about a military victory. a miraculous one, to be sure. a very small force (hasmoneans and macabbees) against a very large one (antiochus and the greeks)... but not the kind of miracle that gets a jewish holiday.

 

so there was a story tagged on about the rededication of the temple. and chanukah means, among other things, dedication.

 

the menorah had to be lit with pure olive oil and kept burning through the night every night to rededicate the temple. the story goes that only one cruse of pure olive oil was found, and miraculously bured for the 8 days required to make a new batch of oil and keep the flames going.

 

there's more the the story, and a lot more symbolism and meanings upon meanings.

 

but basically, for the kids, it's about the lights, and the oil.

 

and so we fry the food.

 

and get our gall bladders out early.

the trailer for the hebrew hammer - surprised they found this much to make a PG13 trailer out of.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0WauS9Sus

the whole movie is free on youtube, in several parts. i love it. not all the christians i've recommmended it to have gotten it... bit i ROF and LMAO every time.

Hebrew Hammer is Hilarious. Dirty as heck but hilarious.

yes. yes it is.

and it's still going on. and on. and on.

 

ah, the freedom of transliteration.

 

and i guess this is reauired now... tho the south park ones are way better.