GRGR(10): Jeroboam (The Magic Flute)

[s~Z]

Jeroboam is also the name of an enormous cigar, ring gauge 66--length 10
inches that is really fun to smoke (dark maduro wrap) while reading one
of GR's more infamous passages aloud with friends...the Biblical
Jeroboam has a rather Katjean wife,
               
         And Jeroboam said to his wife,
         Arise, I pray thee, and disguise
         thyself, that thou be not known to
         be the wife of Jeroboam; and
         get thee to Shiloh: behold, there
         is Ahijah the prophet, which told
         me that I should be king over
         this people. 

                 (1 Kings 14:2, KJV)

and he was definitely preterite. Take us into the weekend YHWH. Follow
the bouncing 'stogie:'
                       
        Therefore, behold, I will bring
        evil upon the house of
        Jeroboam, and will cut off
        from Jeroboam him that
        pisseth against the wall, and
        him that is shut up and left in
        Israel, and will take away the
        remnant of the house of
        Jeroboam, as a man taketh
        away dung, till it be all gone.

              (1 Kings 14:10, KJV)

The first time I smoked one of these monstrosities I sent the cigar
shoppe owner a postcard with this passage on it. Such contact comes in
handy when one is in the mood for contraband.

Have a nice weekend with your smoke of choice. . .