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May 12th 04, 06:26 PM
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m II wrote in message news:inQnc.21122$F04.2950@clgrps13...
LW wrote: (RHF) wrote ... The Rich and Powerful Man can Buy the Men with the Guns. So sad but so true. Jacob and Esau cut a deal over a bowl of soup. We can be bought for less in too many cases. Soup? Nope. If memory serves, it was Esau selling his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of porridge. In today's world it may well be re-phrased as: USA Selling it's Birthright to Halliburton for a Bowl of Oil ================================== Porridge seems to play an important part in literature. Note how, many centuries later, a certain 'Goldielocks' did a break and enter to steal this stuff from three innocent bears, who had gone out to commune with nature. Then 'she' trashed their sleeping quarters... Doing a string search on a Gutenberg project Bible file, comes up with "A pottage of lentiles". Pottage is best described as bean stew as it's a lot thicker than soup. Lentils are those little flat flying saucer shaped peas. The old world before Columnbus didn't have what we call beans, but they did have Fava beans, chick peas/garbanzos, peas and lentils. And something else called pluses which contain a neurotoxin and were outlawed, except that they're still grown and used as food in poor parts of India, where the rich landlords can get away with feeding the peasants poisoned food. (Sorry, just a diversion. My killfile left me with only 92 postings out of 359). Mark Zenier |
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