Eat, drink, and be merry (don't worry, be happy)

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Jonathan Robie
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Eat, drink, and be merry (don't worry, be happy)

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ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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Bill Ross
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Been there, done that and wrote a song about it: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnaI9xQhmIW6grgfpStsoat0E2DS1g
What I lack in youth I make up for in immaturity.
Barry Hofstetter
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Skeleton feast motifs were fairly common in ancient times. There is this famous one from Pompeii...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... hyself.jpg

Fun fact: my daughter did a counted cross stitch of this, over 1700 stitches as an entry in the Philadelphia Classical Society competition. It won best of category, and probably would have won best of show had not a young man literally forged a gladius (Roman short sword) as his entry.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter, M.A., Th.M.
Ph.D. Student U of FL
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Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy
καὶ σὺ τὸ σὸν ποιήσεις κἀγὼ τὸ ἐμόν. ἆρον τὸ σὸν καὶ ὕπαγε.
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