"God Bless You!"

While at work this past week, one of my customers sneezed and I said "God bless you" to the guy. But the guy is from Yemen, so I asked him what the equivalent saying there was. He replied with what is loosly translated as "Allah's blessings on your soul."

I found this facinating. Why?

I remember reading this article way back when I was a kid that expained where the saying "God bless you" originated and why it was said following a sneeze. In that article, it was said that the Puritains believed that when you sneezed, your soul was forced out of your body. By saying the phrase, your soul was allowed access back to the body. Curious enough reason for a kid to remember it for the rest of his life.

So, if the original saying was used by the Puritains (because of their beliefs), why is there an equivalent saying in the Arab countries? No answer.

And, in this day and age, I find it somewhat humorous that the saying is considered a polite response, nay, an expected response when someone sneezes. For we know that the soul does not leave the body on a sneeze.

I just find it odd that the saying is used half the world away, for the same reason.

Vacation Starts Today

I am on vacation for the next 10 days.

Today I am cleaning up the home with packing planned later today. I will be in Reno for the air-races through Sunday the 17th.

It Has Been Awhile

I sit here writing on this blog and two of the others that I contribute to, in too much pain to sleep. The meds are not helping, either with the pain or in getting me to sleep. So I sit here at 0230 in the morning Pacific Time.

For the few people left that read what I write here, I know that most of you do not care about the sports that I write about on my other pages. But, that project has left me little time to write here. I feel that I just have nothing left to contribute here. Maybe, someday, that will change, maybe it won't. So, for now my posts will be infrequent.

I met a woman, but as these things go, it didn't pan out. Seems that the convo that I had with her about having venison for dinner one night didn't go over very well. She being a vegetarian and all (no offense Sass). She just couldn't get past the idea that the guy she was dating could eat 'Bambi', but OHHH! was Bambi good.

If you didn't know, hunting season is in full swing. I don't have a deer tag this year, but my brother, Water Rat, got the deer that we ate. His wife doesn't want to know the particulars either, but at least she will eat some of it. I can hardly wait for dove season that starts on 1 Sep. Followed by duck season late in the year.

I bought a new sidearm. Pretty happy about it. Not that I will get into specifics here, but I just wanted to gloat.

I hope that things are going well for you, my blog-friends, wherever you live.

Gotta Love the Marines

You have to love the Marine that came up with this.



























You know, of course, that if a Muslim sees a naked woman or an image of one, that is not his wife...he must kill himself immediately.

French Sniper

I got this picture in email. Leave it to the French to do something so stupid.

V

People should not fear their government; the government should fear it's people.