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   win said, 6 months ago

   Nothing worse than a damp dreidel. Maybe she can spin dry.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

   Time to spin…
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   blunebottle said, 6 months ago

   OKayyyy……gonna need help understanding this one…….
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   afficionado said, 6 months ago

   ?
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   Prof danglais said, 6 months ago

   I’m sorry, it is pushing the bounds of double entendre… “dry and ready” – dreidel, mentioned by win, in the first posting. Saturday was the first candle of Chanukah, Jewish festival. It is traditional to spin a dreidel during the festivities…

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreidel
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   orinoco womble said, 6 months ago

   “Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay…” The kids spin it to answer questions, kind of like those “fortune telling” folded papers we had in elementary school. Which have somewhat the same shape, now that I think about it…hmmm.
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   SusanSunshine said, 6 months ago

   The joke though, is simple…
   The Womble quoted the chorus….
   but the verse says:

   “I have a little dreidel.
   I made it out of clay.

   And when it’s dry and ready, then dreidel I shall play. "

   
   He’s waiting to play!
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   win said, 6 months ago

   @SusanSunshine

   huzzah!
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   Manhunter808 said, 6 months ago

   Thanks SusanSunshine! My neighbor is Jewish, so I guess I could have asked her tomorrow.
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    Emmett Wayne said, 6 months ago

    I have not played with a dreidel since Junior High School. We had a couple of jewish boys in my class, and when we had our Christmas party, we had a Hannukah party to. They brought us little plastic dreidels. I kept mine until I left H.S.

    Thanks to SusanSunshine. I had not heard the poem before.
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    abqjohn said, 6 months ago

    Yes, thank you for the reminder on the verse itself (which I learned thanks to South Park)
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    Teresa said, 6 months ago

    @abqjohn

    And here I thought that nothing good ever came out of South Park.
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    vegas scott said, 6 months ago

    Thanks for the Chanukkah shoutout.
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    Jeffrey Kaplan said, 6 months ago

    @orinoco womble

    It’s not a fortune telling game, it’s a gambling game. Spin it. If the Nun comes up, nothing happens. If the Gimmel comes up, you pay the pot. If the Hey comes up, you take half the pot. If the Shin comes up, you take all of the pot, then everyone antes up.

    I learned it in the religious equivalent of grade school.
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    D Smith said, 6 months ago

    Says Jim Smith If you do ethnic, please explain it !
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