"...did anyone else have a weird religious dream last night?"

Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

*just stares*

*taps her foot*

Why am I the only one who has that dream?

Hey, you may not be. Do gherkins count as "little pickles"?

Personally, I consider gherkins to be the epitome of 'little pickles' - the ne plus ultra, as it were, of pickledom - so the answer's gotta be yes.

Well, the complete answer is "yes, and I obviously need more hobbies".

Hold on a minute -- in my version of the dream, it's the thousand women who are wearing the robes, and I'm the one who's naked. Important difference there.

But the women are still cheering, which is how I know it's a dream.

You're not. Although mine has a few differences...

Every time I have a dream that I am having sexual relations with a woman who loves me, I consider that to be a religious dream.

Using the words 'sex' and 'relation' in the same sentence always reminded me of those who marry their cousins. You know, either yokels or royalty.

Well, I could change my preferred non-vulgar term for the activity to "sexual congress," but you'd probably find a way to sass me about that one, too.

As Alan Sherman put it, "I don't even want to get into that one. It sounds un-American."

"...but relations in public, that I'll Never understand!"

I've given you enough grief in this thread that I think I owe it to you to make a more serious comment. That one about tolerance, for example. Tolerance is such an important thing to teach that there really ought to be an institution devoted to it ... a museum, perhaps.

And a guy who does the tech support for such a museum would have to be a really hoopy frood, don't you think?

Well, maybe I'll think of that promised serious comment eventually.

I haven't actually been to the museum, mainly because it's over the hill, but partially because it seems to me that so many people use the term tolerance to mean "tolerance to everyone who's a minority. The majority we can slam all we want." I'm assuming it's not like that, though?

I know I have given my opinion on this before, but, just cause it is a opportunity to say it again...

EVERYONE should go see that museum...it doesn't have anything to do with minority or majority, but about looking at individuals and being very aware of our own internal prejudices. Which you can't always change, but being aware of them gives you more control to "behave better in public"

and saying that reminds me that I have not been to the museum in many years, and should go again, I will have more opinions at that time, of that you can be sure...

I also have a very dear friend who survived Theirenstatt, in Chechoslovakia (please forgive the spelling) there happens to be a piece in this months Automobile club magazine about it. I believe that those who fail to remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and that is not something that should be repeated (and for the minorities who are not always represented, but were victims all the same, the Romany and other Gypsies, the Jehovah Witnesses, whom we may not agree with but do not deserved extermination, mentally retarded and others, as well as the Jewish population...)

and saying that reminds me that I have not been to the museum in many years, and should go again, I will have more opinions at that time, of that you can be sure...

You might want to wait a few months, at which time the expansion and remodeling should be complete. Would you like me to just let you know when it's done?

yes, please...perhaps we can schedule a group trip then, since we have a friend in the 'know'...

No, just come whenever you are able, because for one thing I cannot comp you in, and for another I might be so gosh darned busy with work that I wouldn't even have time to say hello.

didn't expect 'comps', and figure that it will have to be on a Sunday, since the museum is closed on Saturdays, and I work that day anyway...perhaps you would be able to go with us, or do you have to work on Sundays? I know you probably would rather not be at the job on your day off, in which case it could still be a group, minus you...but letting us know when the renovations are complete would probably ensure a better visit...thank you...

and if we did come on a weekday, perhaps we would just have to figure out a problem with the computer station and you would HAVE to come say hello...

Since I'm skipping the Spring semester, I should be able to go in a few months...

You are correct.

And after some thought, I can assure you that the Museum of Tolerance is not "over the hill," even if I am.

The Skrewball Center may not be over the hill, but the last I checked the Museum of Tolerance was quite firmly on the wrong side of the Santa Monica Mtns.

Mine is still the Divine Pun in Jeremiah.

That one's right up there! I quite like the First Pun! But this one is more personal...