I was reading Matthew 23 this morning with my Special K and had a few errant thoughts about the Mount of Olives where the scene takes place. It works out really well that the Lord had the place full of olive trees so that things connected with it sounded good. For instance, Mount of Olives and The Olivet Discourse have lyrical sounds to them.Suppose the place was filled with zucchini instead. We'd be talking about the Lord's Return to Zucchini Hill or Gethsemane would be the Garden of Squash or we'd have theological discussions concerning the Zucchinette Discourse! Yech! ;p
Or even worse, suppose the place was filled with the red vegetables that were technically fruits by a scientific, non-Cook definition. Yes, there would be two distinct theological schools based on the ramifications, exhaustively argued, I would suggest, of ToMAHtoes vs. ToMayToes!! The Apostle Paul would probably have created a riot in the book of Acts NOT by saying he was a Pharisee who believed in the Resurrection, but a ToMAHtoe-ist who confirmed the vegetable view of the delicacy!!
Well, before this gets too out of hand and some Brit writes me and tells me to make like an olive and get stuffed, I'll sign off wishing you some happy salad days; which Wikipedia says "is an idiomatic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person. More modern use, especially in the [USofA] refers to a person's heyday when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities—not necessarily in that person's youth."
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