Friday, March 12, 2004

K IS FOR PLAGUES
It's Friday, so you know what that means! ChefGrace says this week's Food Friday is K is for Kosher. This should bring out some tasty recipes. In the spirit of "my dog ate my Kosher Recipes" I bring to you a poor but humble substitute. GreenTuna and her boyfriend are proud yet somewhat embarrassed to bring you (fanfare please)

Bag of Plagues!



I'm here to tell you, the number of things I never knew existed in this world just astound me. So here we have our bag of plagues to inspire and instruct children. I'm glad they included a picture, but without whipping out my Bible, the best I can do is try to channel Charleton Heston and Yul Brenner. Ok, there was a plague of plastic jumpy frogs. I remember that one. Probably locusts -- they showed up a lot in the Old Testament. Then, well, I'm stumped. Was there a plague of green plastic hands? A Plague of Halloween Masks? I know the sunglasses are for the plague of bad John Belushi movies, but I haven't the slightest idea about the ball of string. I'm guessing the cow is for the plague of farm animals that came to earth to eat the last puzzle piece.

I think I need more church. Luckily, I think I've found some help right here. It's

Another Bag of Plagues!



This is much more helpful, because the Other Bag of Plagues website tells me what the heck these are. My favorite in this set? Using bubble wrap to represent the plague of boils. It's a good thing that I'm not Pharaoh and it wasn't a Plague of bubble-wrap, because I'd be the happiest Pharaoh in all of Pharaohdom. I love me some bubble wrap. According to list on this other bag of plagues, the puzzle represents the death of the first born. Maybe it's a puzzle of Cecil B. DeMille's green fog?
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