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Conversation snippet from dinner after choir practice:

Steve: What are the kosher requirements for fish?
Me: Fins and scales.
Hilda: Does that mean Aquaman is kosher?

The conversation forked at that point, with me asserting that Aquaman is a mammal (and thus the rules are different) and Dani asserting that those aren't scales.

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I find this article interesting. If you are anti-Israel, you probably won't want to read it.

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lrstrobel (Ray) is the director of our local SCA choir. He's out of town, so he asked Arianna (the former director) to run this week's practice. She got sent out of town for work, so she asked me to do it.

It was an amazing choir practice. We kicked butt. We sang Halleluyah Halleli perfectly, and proceeded to ace O Morte Eterno Fin. The pseudo-Spanish in Dindirin wasn't even a minor speed bump. Egged on by this, we sight-read the five-part Byrd Gloria, well. Then we sight-read some new German piece Hilda brought that we'd never seen before. Then we went looking for something challenging.

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