<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===========================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 18 December 2009 - Volume 03<br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a> - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/">http://lowlands-l.net/</a></span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L Traditions<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Humorous portion of the Hannukah message I received below got me thinking.</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Interestingly
enough playing  a gambling game called PUT AND TAKE was common practice
in Scotland even when gambling was illegal.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Even grandparents spoke about it.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tiny brass tops of dreidel form with several sides were sold in newsagents. Instead of Hebrew characters they had stuff like</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">PUT
ONE, TAKE TWO, PUT ALL, etc on the sides. I am convinced they were
adapted form the dreidel which I never encountered in Scotland</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">where Jewish folks were a very small minority.</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">The
traditional Chaaunkah toy is a dreidel, a kind of top, which is a
misnomer, 'cause when you spin it, it always lands on its side, never
on its top. Little known "fact": When Cole Porter wrote, "You're the
Tops," he was attending a Chanukah party.</span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">The Hebrew letters on the dreidel stand for the words Nays Gawdawl Hawyaw Shawm, or in English, Made in Japan.</span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<br style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">No,
actually the words mean, "A great miracle was there." The miracle is
that there are any new customers left to buy more dreidels in each
successive year.</span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">The
dreidel game is a gambling gmae--you put in or take out a certain
amount of money from the pot according to which letter comes up when
you spin the dreidel. (Don't look for the joke--that part was true.)
This is how Jewish people teach their kids to count. (THAT was the
punchline.)</span><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"></span></span></blockquote></div><br>
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Best Regards<br>Tom Mc Rae<br>Brisbane Australia<br>An honest man's the noblest work of God (Robert Burns)</div></span></span><br><span class="gI"><br><br></span><br><br>
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