Brevity by Dan Thompson for March 17, 2023

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    Doug K  over 1 year ago

    To all the Ebesneezers: “God, bless you and bless us, everyone!”

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    Chithing Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Whatever happened to his clerk, Bob Cratchooo!

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    Darryl Heine  over 1 year ago

    God bless you…

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    GreenT267  over 1 year ago

    There are two basic origin stories for the sneeze blessing:

    In ancient times, people believed that a person’s soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed and that sneezing opened the body to invasion by evil spirits. So blessings were used as a protection against the devil snatching the sneezer’s soul and/or to keep evil spirits at bay.

    During the Roman Plague of 590, Pope Gregory I ordered unceasing prayer for divine intercession. He also ordered that anyone sneezing be blessed immediately (“God bless you”), because sneezing was often the first sign that someone was falling ill with the plague. By AD 750, it became customary to say “God bless you” as a response to someone sneezing. [An Uncommon History of Common Things, National Geographic, 2009] I wonder if Pope Gregory I was aware of the ancient folk remedy.

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    oakie817  over 1 year ago

    gesundheit

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    tung cha cha cha  over 1 year ago

    Blasted March winds blow all kinds of crud into our nostrils.

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    Frank Burns Eats Worms  over 1 year ago

    I thought he might wipe his nose with Tiny Tim.

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    Muzi54  over 1 year ago

    Wow, that pun name was right on the nose.

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    Thanks Dan, very clever and funny…

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