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13/06/2007 15:42:32
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Hi Dragan,

Do you know why you say "Be healthy" (or "Bless you"), when you sneeze?

Before Jacob people didn't have sickness before they died. They sneeze and then die. Jacob was the first to be sick before death according to Torah.

In Russian you say "Будь здоров", BTW.

>On a totally unrelated note... I saw your new taglines:
>
>When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.
>-- Henny Youngman

>
>In any other language but English (of those that I know), it's something related to health. We (and Russians and Hungarians and probably a few other Slavic languages) say "on (your) health". Germans say "Gesundheit" (health). I've heard it comes from the plague times, when a sneeze was the first sign of recovery (as there's no English word which would literally mean "uphealthening").
>
>Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
>-- Jeff Valdez

>
>I'd rather understand this this as proof that the cats are smarter :)
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