Wednesday, March 31, 2010

passover seder 5770 (4)

The theme of the seder as offered by my brother in law's brother and sister in law was Obama sucks.
I stayed quiet.
("We will see where Obama's leadership will lead us," and so we cannot really tell at this time, is not much of a counterargument.)
Asked big Lerner who is Bibi's truest confidant and he wouldn't venture a suggestion. Is it Meridor or is it Begin or Yaalon is the question.
As usual I presented my quiz during the meal. I gave clues regarding movies that occur in Egypt (although referencing Egypt was good enough and one of them was a novel.) The answers were:
1. Ten Commandments
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Cleopatra
4. The Key to Rebecca (not a movie)
5. The English Patient
6. The Mummy (that's a wrap)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
Joel Cairo (Maltese Falcon character whose last name is an Egyptian city)
Five Graves to Cairo (there is no y in egypt. my dad got that, and i was pleased.)
then the vorts on root word chpz-
The nursemaid of Mefiboshet
The army of Aram. Their camp discovered by the lepers. (haftara of Metzora)
David while fleeing from Saul.
and alma.
While Moses is in the basket of reeds.
The alma who gets pregnant and gives birth to Emanuel.
Rachel when referred to in the conversation between Eliezer and Laban.
David when referred to by Saul to Avner. ("Who is that lad?" after the Goliath confrontation.)
The lad who will pick up the arrows giving the sign to David that Saul wants him dead.
Sat next to Jon Schechter my youngest sister's husband.
It was Leora's bat mitzvah.
Drank wine the first two glasses, then grape juice.
Next day lunch unremarkable.
(We figured out my mother's scale of movies-
A "I like to cry"
B "I can't sit so long"
C "Some people like that kind of movie"
D "You like this?!"
Slept a lot due to the wine.
Hung out after the holiday a bit.
Left the next morning.
Why do we eat Matza, because we left Egypt in a hurry and we didn't make a list and so we forgot the chametz and this is to remind us to make lists.

Death on the nile, confused by everyone as murder on the orient express, was the other unmentioned movie.

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