Haha, yeah, I get you. All right. [York settles in for a long story, gets comfortable on his couch.] Okay. So, it goes a little something like this.
Thousands of years ago, my people--the Israelites--were living in a kingdom called Egypt. Things used to be good, but the Egyptians got a new king--a Pharaoh, they call 'em--who looked out one day and thought, okay, what's up with these freeloaders? They're multiplying like rats out there, it's nuts. So in a moment of 'brilliance' typical to world leaders, the dude conscripts the entire race into slavery, building his tombs, monuments to his greatness, all that. This doesn't keep the Israelites from getting their freak on, though, and as the population grows, Pharaoh decides, naw, he's not really cool with that? So he makes a new decree that every male baby the Israelites have gets thrown into the river and drowned. Follow so far?
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Date: 2016-05-14 02:02 pm (UTC)Thousands of years ago, my people--the Israelites--were living in a kingdom called Egypt. Things used to be good, but the Egyptians got a new king--a Pharaoh, they call 'em--who looked out one day and thought, okay, what's up with these freeloaders? They're multiplying like rats out there, it's nuts. So in a moment of 'brilliance' typical to world leaders, the dude conscripts the entire race into slavery, building his tombs, monuments to his greatness, all that. This doesn't keep the Israelites from getting their freak on, though, and as the population grows, Pharaoh decides, naw, he's not really cool with that? So he makes a new decree that every male baby the Israelites have gets thrown into the river and drowned. Follow so far?