Friday, September 22, 2006

Not eating pigs (a non-movie post)

Well, it's been way too long since I've posted a piece up here, and inspired by my friends Jackhonky and Hip Gay Chemistry Teacher, I've decided to post. It's not about drinking or movies, but about something I just thought of between last night and this morning--why Muslims and Jews should get along.

The answer in a nutshell: Because they have similar eating habits. Namely, they both don't like pork, and they both pick a day each year to fast.

Simple as that.

I mentioned this to my coworker Kari this morning (as we munched on bagels with HAM and cheese) and she told me about an up-and-coming Australian comic named Tim Minchin who wrote and performed a song called "Palestine Peace Anthem", which goes like this:

You don't eat pigs
We don't eat pigs,
Seems it's been that way for ever
So if you don't eat pigs
And we don't eat pigs
Why not NOT eat pigs together?

And there's also the whole "fasting for a day" thing once a year-the Muslims call it Ramadan and the Jews call it Rosh Hashanah. Again: "Why not NOT eat together?"

If only it were that simple...