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Curmudgeon. Formidable braggart. Comedy writer. Eight books, 2 movies. Former associate editor at Playboy Magazine. Movies include "Short Time," (major flop), and "Blue Streak" (huge hit, no idea why.) Last two novels were "What's Wrong With Dorfman?" (St. Martin's Press) and "Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour," (St. Martin's Press). New novel: "Three and a Half Virgins."

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MARCH 28, 2010 8:16PM

Passover Explained

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Why do we Jews drink Manischewitz on Passover?

  

They don’t make Kosher Tequila.

  

What is the significance of Matzoh?

  

It’s a good substitute for cardboard.

  

Why do we eat bitter herbs on Passover?

  

To celebrate the invention of mouthwash.

  

Why do we Jews celebrate Passover?

  

It gives us something to do while the Gentiles paint eggs.

  

Why do we eat pot roast on Passover?

  

It’s the only thing your mother can overcook without destroying it.

  

Why were the Jews angry when they left Egypt?

  

Pharaoh wouldn’t give back their security deposits.

  

Why did the Jews wander in the desert for 40 years?

  

None of the men would ask for directions.

  

What did Moses have when he came down from Mt. Sinai?

  

Bunions

  

Why is Passover night different from every other night?

  

The mattress discounts aren’t the same as they were on Monday.

  

Why do we drink wine on Passover?

  

Why not?

  

Why did frogs rain down from heaven?

  

They were escaping from the French.

  

How did Moses know how to part the sea?

  

He practiced in the bathtub.

  

Why did Moses cause locusts to cover the sun?

  

He lost his beach umbrella

  

Why do we give kids a reward if they find the hidden matzoh known as the Afikomen?

  

Because if there wasn’t money in it, they’d play X-box.

  

What do apples mixed with honey remind us of?

  

Heartburn

  

Why don’t Jews eat pork?

  

3000 years ago, someone had hotcakes and bacon, barfed, and blamed it on the bacon.

 

 

Why did the rivers turn red?

 

The color matched nicely with the Pharaoh’s favorite jacket. 

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Wow. Since I'm attending my first passover dinner at a friend's house manana, this guide will come in handy.
Works for me. If the Pope had just rolled on one itty bitty divorce, I'd still be catholic.
What were the four questions again?
What can you do with an undercooked matzoh ball?

Play tennis.
Wow, thanks for making me an expert on Passover, John. I think I'm ready for that Jeopardy game show now!
One of these years, I really need to get myself to a seder. I think maybe I'll choose yours.
Henny Youngman is rolling over in his grave!
How do you make Mogen David w(h)ine?

Squeeze his grapes.


This Rating is Kosher for Pesach
ba-da-bing! The first seder I attended was--I kid you not--Chinese-Jewish. Go figure.

r
Sometimes I read your stuff and I wonder if you're a madman or a genius, then I read something like this and ask myself what's the difference?
Wow. My education has been lacking indeed.
Now I know everything. Thanks, Rabbi!
You've been gone for a week. Did it take you that long to come up with this?
Woops. hit post too soon. But rated for the Kosher Tequila.
All that time I've been reading theology and the answers are right here. Thanks, dude! Rated.
I am spreading excellent advice from my late father-in-law, who referred to prunes as "matzo remover." Happy Passover, John, to you and yours.
Thanks for the Passover Briefs!
Why does this somehow make sense to me?
I feel quite disturbed now. Thank you.
So if the Gentiles stopped painting eggs at Easter, would Manischevitz go out of business? Just asking... (r)
I always wondered about Passover. Now I know. :)
Happy Passover :D
from an agnostic I'm not sure how much that's worth, but wishing ya one all the same
"matzo remover" eiiiww, Sally!!
Shalom!

Have you heard about all the creative (and valuable $$$) medical uses there now are for foreskins? Oy vey! It is very valuable. Don't laugh, I'm not making this up.
Learned so much I didn't know.
See?
Have attended 106 Passovers and still didn't have all the answers.
For you, I would be a Jew.
Why are there no mattress ads above your comments?
Passover. Such an ancient practice. It's too bad the food is the same. Passby is the better way to go. Especially the Maneshev...Manichiew ... the crappy wine.
That's getting it all in to a nutshell John. Gabby , you now know the reason I stick with Mogen David.
Who explained this, Milton Berle?_r
Thanks for clearing that up . . .
Why do we drink wine on Passover?

Why not?

that about sums up the Jews...
John, you are always a master at taking a humorous look at society!!
This was awesome!!!! R
Damn, if I'd had these answers 40 years ago, I might have stuck with it...
FYI: In the Catholic church, they have to use the same water and unleavened flour recipe for Communion hosts. Usually they're made by nuns, but in a pinch, kosher Matzoh from the grocery store is OK.

Communion wine is also usually Mogen-David or Manischewitz, because it's dirt cheap.

Before kids make their first Communion, their teachers usually have them practice with unconsecrated bread and wine so that at the moment of truth they don't spit out Our Lord Jesus out of surprise at the god-awful taste.
OY! That was so funny it gave me heartburn and I'm out of apples and honey. And maybe red matched his shoes. I know that would be my reason. Sadly I may have to paint eggs tonight as no one has asked me over for Passover. The eggs always break or smell.
Hilarious as always. :)
Now in Eugene, the bitter weed is ganja. Even matzo tastes better with ganja!
John, John, John. You have to learn to lighten up.
Understandably the White House kids thought they were searching for the Africamon.

Three cheers for the Obama girls.
the web couldn't handle the number of rimshot.wavs needed for this post...
a zissen Pesach to you, john blumenthal!
There's no Jewish tequila, but the Manischewitz Concord Grape makes an outstanding Sangria! Add a hint of brandy, some sliced citrus fruit and club soda! (No need for sugar. Duh.)
L'Chaim!
I giggled - the comments are also pretty pretty good.
I wish I could have inserted a "bumdumbump" drum sound after each one for full jokey effect.
Well, that explains 2K -3k years worth of Bible stories.
Your passover seders are hilarious. My nephew was the oldest male child at a seder that my sister-in-law hosted for some co-workers.

We were advised to give him a quarter or so.

Within the hour, he was yelling at people like a little old mensch: "I want a DOLLAR! A DOLLAR!"
Leandra, I didn't know the Catholics were so cheap with the wine. In Scotland, many Presbyterian congregations use a non-alcoholic substitute. In college I once dined with the sons of a minister whose congregation had voted to switch. As a result he had about twenty cases of a decent French claret maturing nicely in the basement of the manse. He had gone off to volunteer in Africa for a year, and I'm fairly sure the guys had put quite dent in his stash by the time he came back.
It's an education I'm getting!

(And what is it with all these ads above me? "Sorry to disturb u. just take u a little time"!!!! 3 times over. ... Enough already!
Thanks for this informative post. You answered questions that I, a Gentile have been wondering about for years. Especially about the bitter herbs.
I love the questions that you highlighted. Obviously you do not think greatly of the ludicrous answers that followed. The heading of your blog attracted serious attention, but the revelation of its contentnts broughts some dissapointment. Fortunately I had the answers in my mind for most of the questions, which brought me some comfort.
John,

You are too funny sir! My, how I have missed your humor.

It's good to know that God was concerned with the color coordination of the rivers and the Pharaoh's favorite ensemble. "God is in the details." :) These days it would have all been C.G.I.

V
XOXOXO
Ah, the wonders of Judaism explained at last. Thank you for that.
It's not nice to make people laugh so hard so early in the morning. :)
No kosher tequila? Seriously? (Wanders off to write business plan..)
Isn't Passover over already? Where the hell have you been?
O: I almost drowned in a vat of matzoh ball soup and was in a coma for a week. You should know how that feels -- you're in a coma most of the time.
Only in a coma so I'm better able to banter at your level, blu.
O: Oh, you're bantering? I thought you were talking to yourself.
I was. You've been absent.
O: Not absent. Sleeping. Your banter is better that Ambien.
I know I've been busy but how did I not see this? Must have been all the matzoh I was eating. I'll bet your seders were more fun than mine!
Karin: My seder was utter chaos. We invited too many heathens.
Those heathens must have been a big notch up the food chain for you, blu.
O: Go away. You're polluting my post.
I thought you were into poop.
Waiting for you to crap out.
I see you're pooped.
O: Didn't anybody tell you? Stool softeners are not Altoids.
You're milking this post for all you can and mixing it with (a little) meat. It's not kosher, you know.
O: If size mattered, you'd get the Annual Holland Tunnel Award.
And you wouldn't. Ask not for whom the booth tolls....
O: You're so darn good at puns, you should write a book. I think it would sell really well wherever English is not spoken.
Wanna be my edit her?
O: OK. You need a total rewrite. Start with your face and work your way down.
That's a little self writeous, wouldn't you say, blu? It's not like anybody is asking for 8 x 10 negatives, let alone glossies of you. In fact, a "head shot" of you could fit on a petri dish, couldn't it?
O: You're struggling now, aren't you babe? A sorry thing to behold.
Thanks, I needed a laugh (or two or three or, oh you know). You are very funny.
You speak truth, oh wise one. Except isn't Tequila always Kosher? What could survive it?
A beautiful and touching commentary on...wait. The French were already invented? r