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Yes, the photos were taken before the bracha was said.
Yes, the photos were taken before the bracha was said.
So, I mentioned a while ago that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mabfan and I have a rather extensive stuffed animal collection and that we frequently give them odd and/or punning names. One of these animals is a Folkmanis snowy owl. We've had the owl for a while, but, for some reason, it never got named.
On Friday, before Shabbat, we were moving stuff around, andmabfan picked up the owl. We had the following conversation that culminated in our naming the owl:
mabfan: This owl...
gnomi: Has 22 minutes?
mabfan: [laughs]
gnomi: That's it!
mabfan: What?
gnomi: I finally figured out a name for the owl!
So, we now have Mercer the Owl.
mabfan and I have a rather extensive stuffed animal collection and that we frequently give them odd and/or punning names. One of these animals is a Folkmanis snowy owl. We've had the owl for a while, but, for some reason, it never got named.On Friday, before Shabbat, we were moving stuff around, and
mabfan picked up the owl. We had the following conversation that culminated in our naming the owl:mabfan: This owl...gnomi: Has 22 minutes?mabfan: [laughs]gnomi: That's it!mabfan: What?gnomi: I finally figured out a name for the owl!So, we now have Mercer the Owl.
I came home tonight to find that mabfan had bought me a (slightly early) birthday gift: a really, really big plush penguin. It's over 2 feet tall, and it is quite cute. And after I squeed the squee of the newly en-penguined, I brought the giant penguin into the bedroom to integrate it into our stuffed animal menagerie.
Now, you must understand -- there's something of a hierarchy in our stuffed animal menagerie. We have a stuffed lion cub puppet that we got a number of years ago at Arisia. We named it Leonardo (many of our animals have punny names; the lion cub's full name is Leonard DiCatrio. We have a bison named Freeman; we have a polar bear named Coordinates and a giraffe named Vander). Leonardo (or Nardo, as he has become known) fancies himself the king of the animal menagerie, and he considers every other animal to be his potential snack. So asmabfan held the new penguin, I took out Nardo (who is, as I mentioned, a puppet).
The following conversation ensued:
Me: Nardo, we have a new penguin in the household.
Nardo: Penguin snack!
Me: You'd better see the new penguin before you decide.
mabfan moves the penguin into Nardo's "line of sight."
Nardo: And I, for one, welcome our new penguin overlords.
mabfan had bought me a (slightly early) birthday gift: a really, really big plush penguin. It's over 2 feet tall, and it is quite cute. And after I squeed the squee of the newly en-penguined, I brought the giant penguin into the bedroom to integrate it into our stuffed animal menagerie.Now, you must understand -- there's something of a hierarchy in our stuffed animal menagerie. We have a stuffed lion cub puppet that we got a number of years ago at Arisia. We named it Leonardo (many of our animals have punny names; the lion cub's full name is Leonard DiCatrio. We have a bison named Freeman; we have a polar bear named Coordinates and a giraffe named Vander). Leonardo (or Nardo, as he has become known) fancies himself the king of the animal menagerie, and he considers every other animal to be his potential snack. So as
mabfan held the new penguin, I took out Nardo (who is, as I mentioned, a puppet). The following conversation ensued:
Me: Nardo, we have a new penguin in the household.
Nardo: Penguin snack!
Me: You'd better see the new penguin before you decide.
mabfan moves the penguin into Nardo's "line of sight."Nardo: And I, for one, welcome our new penguin overlords.
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