"Oh my stomach feels bad....maybe I have the flu."
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"Really," my friend said, "What's wrong?"
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" My stomach is gurgling and there's a bowling ball in my abdomen."
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"Ahhhhh....." he said, "You don't have the flu you have Matzoh belly."
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"Matzoh belly?"
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"Matzoh belly."
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"Matzoh balls and fish and horseradish and hard boiled eggs and chopped fruit plus all those cups of sweet wine."
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I felt queasy just listening to the things I've eaten in the last few days at various celebrations.
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"Rest rest and just have broth...nothing else."
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I hung up the phone and rested my head on my desk.
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Then I had a vision.
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I couldn't help it.....
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I saw Moses on a mountaintop...(who looked surprisingly like Charlton Heston)....he raised both arms up to heaven.......his long gray hair and beard tossed by the wind......the sky dark behind him.
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"Lord Lord I beseech you......"
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(You've probably guessed what's coming.....)
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"Let my peoples intestines.....go"
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Hmmm....I wonder if you can flunk Jew School because you don't have a cast iron stomach?
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