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Awkward moments in Passover history:  Randallstown, MD, 1982

me: “Uh, mom?  Did you leave Grandpa’s door unlocked again?  Because unless we’ve started keeping matzah in the tool shed, I think the old fella just wandered outside and ate a piece of particle board covered in whitefish salad and sliced onion.”

me

me:  “…Right.  I’ll go see if I can find his pants.”

21 Replies to “Awkward moments in Passover history:  Randallstown, MD, 1982”

  1. rls says:

    I’ll be the first to <str>say</str> er..admit that I don’t have a clue what that is about.

    The only thing I can think of is the old “Ozarker” joke:

    Pa: Ma, how old is that yungun sittin’ at the end of the table?

    Ma Well, I reckon he must be nigh on to 20 or so by now.  Why?

    Pa Well we better git ‘em a pair o’ pants..did you see what he just drug thru the beans?

  2. Jeff Goldstein says:

    It’s not really “about” anything.  Other than my Grandpa mistaking particle board for matzah and wandering around without his pants.

    Awkward.

  3. Lou says:

    My grandfather at the sedar table

    Baruch hat attaboy burey paris hagafanana

  4. rls says:

    …mistaking particle board for matzah

    Don’t want to insult anyone or anything like that…but I can see how that is possible. 

    The pants thing…a choice.

  5. inactus says:

    [generic pithy comment]

  6. Ian Wood says:

    Don’t knock the particle board. It’s formaldehyderrific.

    But, alas, not kosher, so the Passover table isn’t really a good place for it.

    Especially when you wrap it with some nice prosciutto.

  7. Pablo says:

    We’ll go dancing in the dark, walking through the park and reminiscing….

  8. Lew Clark says:

    I wonder around without my pants a lot, because I’m cool and sexy.  But I don’t eat particle board.  So that’s probably not cool and sexy.

  9. Alien Grey in the time of X-Files says:

    MMMMMMMMMMM

    Particle Board

    Full of fiber

    and Formaldehyde

  10. JohnAnnArbor says:

    Particle Board

    Full of fiber

    You’re thinking of fiberboard.  Maybe.

  11. McGehee says:

    If I want to eat particle board I’ll grab a crunchy granola bar.

  12. 1982? I was a junior in high school. That was the year Ayn Rand died. Lots of us were walking around without our pants. Oh wait, that was the LSD.

    Never mind.

  13. Squid says:

    Particle Board, Particle Board,

    Not what you’d call a tasty reward,

    What’s it like? It’s not important,

    Particle Board.

  14. me says:

    In the tool shed without pants! Had he not been circumsized as a kid?

  15. McGehee says:

    You can take your particle board back to Constantinople, for all I care.  wink

  16. Pablo says:

    The fact is, major players in

    the construction of the Republican majority have been indicted by the

    Justice Department.

    Like who? You’re not going to tell that you think a lobbyist is a major player in the construction of the Republican majority, are you?

  17. Jim in KC says:

    Why did Constantinople get the works?

    grin

  18. Pablo says:

    Whoops, wrong thread!

    tw: Boy, is my face red!

  19. Nuke 'm Hill says:

    Pablo.  How the hell do you make that kind of mistake?!

  20. Nuke 'm Hill says:

    Back to the original intentions, before we were so rudely hijacked by Pablo:

    How would you even know the difference between particle board and matzah?  Frankly, it might actually be an improvement!

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