[ladyinred]

Sorry to hear about Eric, that is pretty painful isn't it? Bless his heart, our prayers are with him.

The Sneeze is great, I hadn't seen that before. I have read in old history type books, that the reason people say "God Bless You" when someone sneezes is that they used to think that every time you sneeze an evil spirit leaves your body!

I guess Demoncrats take too many antihistamines huh? We need to sprinkle pepper all over them! :)

[ohioWfan]

I guess Demoncrats take too many antihistamines huh? We need to sprinkle pepper all over them! :)

ROFLOL! Even that might not work, lady!

Thanks for your prayers for Eric. We should hear from him tomorrow. Now that he's in 'Blue phase' he has quite a bit more freedom, and 15 minutes for his phone calls instead of just 2!! He doesn't have to talk as fast as that guy in the TV ads a few years back (what was his name?) to get all the stuff in that he wants to tell us. :o)

About that e-mail.......Eric practically preached a sermon at his graduation, with total approval of the administration. It's not so bad everywhere, that you have to be quite so 'creative' to invoke God's blessing on your class.

[lizma]

"I have read in old history type books, that the reason people say "God Bless You" when someone sneezes is that they used to think that every time you sneeze an evil spirit leaves your body!"

I've heard the same thing. Back in the Elizabethian era it would have been considered a spell and witchcraft and get you in a mess of trouble. (Believing in evil spirits was a no-no.)

I've also heard that "good-bye" is a shortened form of, I think, "God be with you"!