Thanks for stopping by for the final installment of sponges, something about which you’d never thought you’d waste five seconds of your (mostly half-lived) life reading. Fried shrimp and tobacco never looked so fun. 
One thing I’ve discovered is that the writers at NG were pretty clever. I especially enjoyed this reference to “Milady’s bath.” 
And now to the weird part of the Tarpon Springs culture, where young men (and future sponge-divers) dive into frosty January waters to retrieve an emblem. You know, like Labradors do. 
To the winner, go the spoils. You’d think having washboard abs is its own reward, but evidently the blessing was nice, too. 
Well, I hope you absorbed all that. Like. A. Sponge. Come on; I had to.
Groan. You just had to go there. Of course if you hadn’t ,someone else would. Well I for one enjoyed your little report on sponges. I never knew so much went into the harvesting of them. Are they an endangered species yet?
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Oh, I don’t know. It looks like they harvested them all in the 40s and there couldn’t possibly be more, but I guess they keep growing.
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A loofah! I want to be a loofah. That word is fun to say – loofah, loofah, loofah, loofah…
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I said it today, too.
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Those hookah hosers had some lungs on ’em to get the smoke through those turnpikes of hoses, Kerbey. And, by the way, how did Paul Giamatti get the part of playing the bearded, scepter-wielding bestower of good luck and blessings in the bottom photo? You and the look-alikes!
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Well, Paul is a character actor and so is the Archbishop, so it stands to follow that I doppelG’d again. Do you know I was flipping through the grunge movie “Singles” two weeks ago and it was terribly wretched, just wretched, but I spotted Giamatti in it! He had a reddish brillo head.
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I have yet to find a Giamatti role I have not admired in some way, Kerbey. He’s a fave of mine. So versatile.
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…enjoy shrimp fried in oil, lamb and spaghetti…
That’s an odd shrimp recipe.
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Yes lamb-fried shrimp. It’s kosher. 🙂
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great closing pun!!!!
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Beware of Greeks bearing sponges.
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I read that on a sign somewhere…
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