Next Tuesday is Purim, a Jewish holiday of great joy and celebration. I also know that many people in the world smoke crack to celebrate.
I just want to remind people that if you’re going to smoke crack on this day of celebration, please don’t drive or operate heavy machinery. Call a cab, or your dealer if you need help. If your friend is high on crack and tries to take the van, bust a cap in his ass if you must.
Let’s all have a joyous and crack-death-free Purim everyone. The life you save just may be your own.
God Bless and L’Chaim!
-Alphagene
Stay tuned next week for my thread “Please Don’t Beat Your Wife on Arbor Day.”
Alpha,
Cute thread! I do, however, welcome “don’t drink and drive” threads. I started one myself at Christmas time last year after seeing a horrible drunk driving accident.
Zette
(I love the “Don’t beat your wife on Arbor Day”. I’ll have to remind my husband. He kicks my ass every year!)
“If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit) Zettecity
Voted “Most Empathetic”- can you believe that?
I don’t know whether to be flattered that my thread inspired a knock-off, or insulted at what I perceive as unnecessary sarcasm. I’m sorry if the thread offended you, Alphagene, but I honestly was concerned about the issue and posted it in the appropriate forum.
Prairie Rose
If you’re not part of the solution you’re just scumming up the bottom of the beaker.
“Necessary” sarcasm is usually reserved for trolls and other irritants. Since my thread was more along the lines of a “concerned citizen” theme, you are out of line.
Prairie Rose
If you’re not part of the solution you’re just scumming up the bottom of the beaker.
Out of line? I’m sorry I didn’t realize this was obedience school. I thought it was the Pit.
I’d like to know how me asking people not to beat their wives is different from you asking people not to DWI.
My point is this, Miss “Concerned Citizen”. If you want to lecture us about Drunk Driving Being Bad, why did you pick St. Patrick’s Day?
Why not New Years Eve, New Years Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas?
You see, Prairie Rose, alcohol-related fatalities are higher on all of these holidays than on Saint Patrick’s Day by quite a margin.
My beef is that you chose to lecture us on St. Patty’s Day because to you, like to too many people, St. Pat’s has become a trite “Let’s all be Aware of Alcohol Related Problems” instead of a celebration of the greatest non-Italian culture ever to grace the earth.
St. Pat’s isn’t about alcohol. And I get a little prickly when people perpetuate the stereotype.
And if you really think people need to be reminded not to drink and drive, save it for Thanksgiving weekend. Seven times as many people die due to alcohol on that weekend than do on St. Pats.
Gypsy: Tom, I don’t get you. Tom Servo: Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby.
Alpha, if you were not so far away I would risk the wrath of your lady and kiss your blarney stone!
I am so tired of pointing out that St. Pat’s is a religious holiday in Ireland and does not include - for most people - drinking until you are blind. I am tired of the assumption that all Irish not only drink, but drink to excess. I have been so tired that I didn’t even challenge the assumptions made in PR’s post. I thank you for taking care of it in a fashion I could not have managed.
I am a redhead, you see, and I do not tempt. I insist. -Cristi
WHAT!!! You’re saying that the smoking crack thing on Purim is a Joke??!! Please tell me you’re kidding. Please, Please, Please.
I was all set to convert to Judaism so I could participate in this lovely tradition. And now I find out you were just KIDDING!
Are you telling me I underwent MAJOR surgery for nothing. (Ow. Ow. Ow.) And now, NO CRACK. This is simply unbelievable. I hope you’re happy with yourself, Mister.
