Well there is a strong suspicion in the family that maybe the ancestors had
been sword Christians. My old friend Bill Lipsky swears I have sense of
humor of a Jew. But I fixed him, I asked him "How would he know?" he came
back with some nonsense about his being a Jewish name. I doubt it. I mean I
know lots of Bills and some of them are Catholic priests so there goes the
name argument.

At least he's interested in getting a van so that part of him is OK.

An Orthodox celebration....hmmm.

Maybe.

Mike

On 12/25/06 10:51 AM, "Joy Hecht" <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hey, do Russian Jews get to celebrate Russian Orthodox Christmas?  :-)
>
> Hmm, maybe the DC area vanagon winter party should be for Orthodox
> Christmas, instead of just winter!
>
> (Yeah, I know, no one ever posted about the wonderful holiday party we had
> in Rock Creek Park!  It was attended by a select group of six people, five
> vanagons, one really cute dog, and way too much food.  And we all had a nice
> time.  But we agreed that a winter party, with more advance planning, was a
> good idea.)
>
> Or is January 7 too soon and you need more advance planning than that?
>
> Instead, we could have a party the following weekend by the Wilson Bridge,
> and see if we can use mental telepathy to communicate with the vanagonauts
> by that much warmer bridge on the other side of the country!  Just call it
> BBtOB - buses by the other bridge?  Of course that would be MLK weekend,
> probably a holiday weekend - does that mean you'll all be out of town doing
> more fun stuff?
>
> Or maybe we need a mid-Atlantic BBtB event of our own!  How about by the
> Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel - now that's a serious bridge!  On the island
> in the middle, of course.  :-)  That would be really cool - well, maybe a
> little too cool in January.
>
> Okay, enough drivel - but is anyone interested in a winter party sometime in
> January?
>
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
>
> :::-----Original Message-----
> :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> :::Of Mike Miller
> :::Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 11:54 AM
> :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> :::Subject: Re: Writers aren't artists
> :::
> :::Thanks Sudhir!
> :::
> :::I never thought of that. But being half Russian I get to celebrate
> :::Orthodox
> :::Christmas as well. Being generous I invite the list to celebrate with me.
> :::Perhaps we can get a thread going on sock colors or something equally
> :::important and fascinating.
> :::
> :::Mike
> :::
> :::
> :::On 12/25/06 8:22 AM, "Sudhir Desai" <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> :::
> :::>> Merry Christmas, everyone!  Now time to return to painting the walls -
> :::>> WHITE!  Unless, of course, I ditch it to do the good Jew thing on
> :::December
> :::>> 25, and go to the movies and then send out for Chinese food.
> :::>
> :::>
> :::> you're not alone... the half of me that is eastern catholics doesn't
> :::> celebrate until the 7th.
> :::>
> :::> sudhir
> :::>
> :::>
>
>