h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't recall reading about a lot of hobnobbing with the pharisees. (snicker) Rather, I think there was a bit more of the "brood of vipers" sort of relationship. Either way, I'm sure I've lost the point of it all now.

By the way, nob (rhyming with knob) is yet another American slang name for idiot. I imagine it started out as knob or knobhead but it has been reduced to nob in some recent writing I've seen. We have a lot of slang words for idiot... nob, julep, loser, dork, the list is endless.

I understand he was consuming the commestables at a particularly posh pharasee's palace when the girl with the long hair and a foot fetish appeared, thereby scandalising all (except the Christ) when set set about tickling the Christ's feet.

If you think about it, there had to be a pharasee or two there otherwise the rhetorical milage would have been serverely limited. One can hardly express outrage about cheap hosts and then praise the holy harlot if the hosts are as skint as the next tax collector and as morally dubious as Herod with a huge hangover (and an unaccounted for head on a platter in the middle of the dining room).

So next time you want to be Christ like, do it at dinner at the pastor's house. Get an interloper to tickle you under your jaw line (and wax lyrical about your wonderful fur) and then accuse your host of being ungodly because they didn't tickle you first (and wax lyrical about your wonderful fur) which, let's be honest, is just polite when hosting a cat at dinner.

...still laughing... I have to run right now but I will answer.