>>>>>What? you can have reverence for a cow or sheep, but not for a pig? What's unreverential about eating shellfish? I don't understand. Now it seems like there wasn't even a practical reason for avoiding certain foods.
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>>>>>And then the kosher killing. Is that like hal-al, slitting the throat and letting the animal bleed to death? Reverence?
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>>>>>What's kosher all about anyway?
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>>>>>Forgive my gentile ignorance.
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>>>>I guess you don't know how to use google.
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>>>>http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm
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>>>Me? What's a google?
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>>>The article is even worse than I thought; it states that there seems to be no reason in the Torah why certain things can't be eaten. So it's just blindly following rule that has no basis in sense. You can't even drink gentile-made wine! And why do animals have to be drained of blood? Can you make black pudding of the drained blood?
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>>In my old job, we were one large department with about 20 old school mainframe programmers and 3-4 VB/VFP programmers. One of the VB/VFP programmers mentioned a few times about how he found solutions on Google, and one of the mainframe programmers didn't know what Google was. Eventually, the mainframe programmer though that Google was some sort of internal solution system. In a meeting, somebody brought up Google, and this mainframe programmer said "Didn't Scott write that?" Pretty funny.
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>Someone aught to tell GWB. Apparently he uses "the Google" [sic] to "pull up maps" and look over his ranch. That's even funnier!
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>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/23/bush-says-he-uses-the-google/

Sound a lot like my dad. A few weeks ago he told me the "email address" to get to the weather site that he wanted set as his home page.