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everybody in the audience is sitting on the edge of their seats. She
apologizes for making fun of him and repeats, "Close your eyes
and open your lips." With amazing grace, s he sits on his lap and
crunches a frog into his mouth with its head sticking out. "Oh,"
exclaims the Funny Rabbi, "Now I'm fired up !" The curtain is
about to descend and the voluptuous woman shouts, " Hold on to
your horses."
She reminds the Funny Rabbi how they used to play "tug o f
rope," in her backyard on sunny Saturdays when they had no
school. "Just for old times' sake," she pleads. The Funny removes
the two or so yards long prayer belt fro m around his sparklin g
attire. They stretch it out to opposite ends of the stage, and the y
both wind it around their waists and grab hold in both hands.
Instantaneously, she pulls so hard the Funny Rabbi falls forward,
prostrated on his full length and face, when finally, the spotlight
goes dark, and the curtain falls. I don't hold the act against the
performer, there so many funky reports in the news these days
about sex scandals, I hope the scandalous exposure might
encourage so me penitence. What was left to say to Alan Braid? I
considered his suggestion to jump on that stage in Safrascity. He
had suggested the possibility of taking me to Los Vegas when he
went for business, but it never ca me to fruition.
There are so many distinctions to what f riendship is really
about, like the saying, "a friend in need is a friend in deed. I would
use the rarely applied definition of "being there when I'm needed
to do deeds of kindness; so meone seeks me out knowing he or
she'll get help if needs be. This is opposite to the egocentric view
that when I need something my friend is the person who gives it
to me. It turns out that Alan Braid anticipated what he deigned I
should be for him, and felt he could to dictate my self-worth. The
generalization, "he who pays the piper " would certainly not depict
constraints I placed on my adventure. I had an agenda, even as
pertains to certain restrictions in banking policy restricting t he
American citizens abroad fro m service s not denied to militia o r
government serva nts. Senator Levin sent me a copy the legislation
delineating how the Parliament refuted these practices, but de
facto banking rights forbid citizens of the United States who m do
not reside in continental American from opening a brokerage
account.
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