On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:39:50 +0000 (UTC), Opus the Penguin
<opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>(xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Guess what I just saw on TV.
>>
>
>The Wizard of Oz.
>
>> So just where were the Jews planning on going, anyway?
>
>I'm not sure the Munchkins are meant to represent the Jews. In
>Wagner's Nibelung tetralogy, the Nibelung, who are dwarfs, may well
>represent the Jews (as Wagner perceived them). But that doesn't mean
>that other little people in other works carry the same association.
>
>
>> Wouldn't it have been easier to part the Suez Canal?
>>
>
>How does that get you back to Kansas?
>
>
>> And why do they show it on Easter when it is far from Passover?
>>
>
>Ummm, you know, the blood-red slippers, the sacrificial witch, the
>baptism that drives out sin, Ding Dong the witch is dead, the curtain
>is torn (or drawn back), you get to go over the rainbow. Hello? Could
>it BE more obvious?
It's Purim...Dorothy as Esther.
Boron
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