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Jusper Machogu's avatar

That's a lot of different foods Irina! Merry Christmas

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Irina Slav's avatar

Definitely a lot more than we usually eat, yes. :D Merry Christmas!

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Clarence Wilhelm Spangle's avatar

I knew an Orthodox priest when I was a little boy. I asked him what makes him different than the other Christian clergy . . .

He told me, "I'm an Orthodox priest, and that means I can bonk you on the head."

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Irina Slav's avatar

Can't all priests bonk their flock on the heads?

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Clarence Wilhelm Spangle's avatar

I don't know that, but a few years later he sent my uncle (for whom he had performed the marriage ceremony) a picture of him standing in front of his church in Chechnya, holding an AK47.

I assume that particular Orthodox priest can also bonk the flocks of other churches with a 7.62 x 39 mm.

Most of my German family were Lutherans, but my uncle married a Russian girl from Volgograd and her family brought this priest all the way from Russia to marry them.

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Irina Slav's avatar

Sure sounds that way. :D

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Rose_Anne's avatar

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Irina.

And many thanks for all that you do in providing interesting articles!

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Irina Slav's avatar

Merry Christmas to you and yours, too, Rose Anne! Thanks for being here.

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Kari's avatar

Irina, how doth your garden grow!

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