Do you say Grace before meals?

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You should you know.

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Obviously I don't, but it is a bit odd when I'm in an Arby's in the Midwest and there is a whole family sat holding hands with heads bowed before eating their roast beef sandwiches.

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

they did at school, but hell no.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

wash your mouth out with soap, Ed.

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Good rice, good curry, good Ghandi let's hurry."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Also - oops, you do nothing to change my image of you as Bart Simpson grown into his early-to-mid twenties.

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Tasty! How bout some tune-age?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(it was 'tune-skis', wasn't it?)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Simpsons episode set in the future where Lisa is Prez and Bart is a burn-out.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

the only time my family would every say grace, after the dyson family has it's fallout w. god 20 yrs ago, is christmas/thanksgiving - and only if we had company.
also it would only be our mother saying grace; my sister and i would just sit there with confused looks on our faces, semi-pissed off at our mothers need to hide the fact that we were all heretics.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I really love the "people in the Midwest" bugbear that people trot out for threads like this, as if people don't do this on both coasts.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, 70% of americans bother god daily so that can just be midwesteners saying grace.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Why does "God-botherer" sound dirty?

"I love to finger-bang our Heavenly Father!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

For some reason this Thanksgiving, my uncle (who doesn't go to church ever) said that someone should say grace. My two lil cousins immediately began to fight over who would get to say it, which I'm sure pleased God immensely. After it was said, everyone said 'amen' while I said 'word' instead. Now my cousins say 'word' after grace. Hopefully they'll start their own sect.

(xpost but Dan can you argue that it's not more prevalent there?)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

dear Lord, we paid for this food ourselves, so thanks for nothing

― bart bart (blueski), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"I love to finger-bang our Heavenly Father!

this is god-worrying rather than god-bothering

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

*makes old-fashioned 'he is crazy' twirling finger gesture*

double xpost

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, it's all about the people you're around, isn't it? I've actually met MORE "fanatical" Christians in Boston than I knew in Hastings, MN.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

that's because there was enough in mn so that none of them had to socialize with the likes of you.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"fanatical" Xians in MN<<<<<<<<<<"fanatical" Xians in Kansas

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

How many fanatical Xians do you know in Kansas?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

How many KKK members do you know anywhere?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

but for the record: 2

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

And how many do you know in Minnesota?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

None! Do you see?!?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

fanatica xians = kkk¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Fanta Xians = KKK

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

(also Fanta Xians = grape, strawberry and orange)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, forgot the "l".

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I really love the "people in the Midwest" bugbear that people trot out for threads like this, as if people don't do this on both coasts.

Dan, to be fair, the only time this has happened to me was in the Midwest, so I'm only going on personal experience.

This was NOT a "people in the Midwest eat like THIS" type-post.

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

And I love Midwesterners, everybody knows that. I even married one!

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"When are you at an Arby's in the Midwest?" was the first thing I thought when I opened this thread, rather late in the game.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

my "l" looks like a skinny angel, don't yout think¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, loved yer "word" instead of amen. We here at the job are trying to make "word" the word for yes, no, how are you, fine. So word.

― bosie bos, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh holy lord, oh lord divine,
Who turneth water into wine
Pray forgive these foolish men
Who seek to turn it back again...

Not any more, thank god. And I'm closing this "string" (as my mum now calls it) before she gets ideas and starts again!

― the river fleet, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Two four six eight
bog in, dont wait?

We only seem to do the grace thingar when my grandparents dine with the family, which is usually xmas and the like. Mum's side of the family are all religious types, and WILL NOT LET GO of the idea I want nothing to do with it. They dont say I'm going to hell or anything daft, they just.. assume thats the only "right" way to be, I think. In a nice, bland, blind sort of way.

If someone I was with said grace in a restaurant I think I'd shrink under the table and crawl away. But us Australians are a heathen lot for the most part.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i say a prayer of thanksgiving, to remind myself that my food came from somewhere, and to remind myself that their were many hands who prepared it, a wholistic view of these things. Also, i slow down, become aware of taste&texture, an extension of my body. Like Slow Food.

― anthony, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

we do say grace at our table, my wife and I - to be mindful that there are those even in our own town who have nothing to eat, and that we ought to be thankful for how blessed we have been. once though my father caught me in a restaurant quickly saying the little prayer one's supposed to say when eating unofferable foods (it's a vaisnava thing), and he quickly made us all join hands and pray out loud. that sucked.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

My best friend from school dreads family gatherings with her new husband's family because they're kind of devout and say grace elaborately; he's not that way inclined.

I'm an atheist and my agnostic parents never did the grace thing. My grandparents on either side didn't go in for it either, even at Christmas/Easter. I don't get in many situations where grace is said, obviously...

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony OTM about appreciating food/slow food etc. Meals are a wonderful social/conversational/meditational time as well as a way of gettin more calories into dat fat ass each day. If it helps you appreciate the simple things in yr life a little better, go for it i say!

[dangit i sound like a hippy now]

My dad's gf belongs to one of those religions that have their own weekly infomercial and always says grace, even at restaurants, which was DEFINITELY disconcerting the first time i got scowled at for picking at the complimentary snack thingies...

― petra jane (petra jane), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, is that the whole thing? my dad occasionally says 'rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub' which is followed by a sports-cheer like 'yay, jesus!'

luckily, this isn't often. do other people end with that?

(and just so you know, he's kidding. my dad isn't bart simpson)

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

No Colette, it's always dads attempting 'humour': mine had 'praise the Lord and pass the butter' when he remarried the world's most venal bitch, who came from a grace-saying family.

People who scowl at you because you have not figured out through the magic of telepathy that they observe the grace ritual should be sent to the shed to eat.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

a funny grace story from the midwest...

i live in san francisco and was back in ohio visiting my parents with my girlfriend and our friends theo and natalie. my parents knew theo from our college days but had never met natalie. the first night of our stay we sat down to dinner and my parents asked that we say grace before the meal.

well they now do the holding hands around the table thing and my father is seated right next to natalie and therefore is holding her hand. so my father begins his prayer and it goes something like this, "thank you lord for the safe travel of theo, caralee, matt, and..." stops abruptly and turns to natalie and says, "what's your name again?" the table errupts in laughter and, natalie, bless her, is very easy-going and takes it all in stride and whispers her name to my father and he continues on like nothing even happened!! classic russ moment. we will laugh about this one forever.

― metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Considering that I shake my fist in the air when things go wrong, I should probably say grace before I eat or have sex.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, is that the whole thing? my dad occasionally says 'rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub' which is followed by a sports-cheer like 'yay, jesus!'

hahaha that's awesome. I sorta remember them doing that on Mr. Belvidere.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

my boyfriend's parents have me over for dinner 1-3x a week, and have done so for 2+ years. Every time they say their Episcopalian opening grace: 'name of the father son the holy ghost - bless this food to our use and us to thy loving service -make us always mindful of the needs and wants of others - name of the father, som, and holy ghost - amen'

so clearly I know the words – but I didn't at first
so I just held hands and stared into space
this is still my MO
it's gone long past the point where I should've joined in
I just try to enjoy the awkwardness of not joining in bcz I really don't want to
I can't disagree with any of the words or ideas in this prayer
there's just an inertia of not saying it that feels unbreakable

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Only on Shabbos

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Hey there Lord, my name is Ashley Banks

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xxp it's a good MO

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THE BLESSINNNGGGGG

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Addressed to Whom?

I do talk to myself, and my attending dogs.

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