I wonder if there are any referees who are Quakers????
If so, I've never met one.
Could he work games with his hat on?

I'm quite certain there are. Although, I don't know if she works with a hat.

I am certain there are Penn grads who are referees.

Nope, no hats. And she doesn't call people thee or thou, either. She is still struggling to figure out how to handle the Star Spangled Banner thing. The reason I know this is because she's talked to me about it quite a bit.

What does the Star Spangled Banner have to do with being a Quaker? I am sure you know what you are talking about, I just have no idea what that means. If you could please fill me in on what you meant.

Uh, no.

BTW - about two years ago I was working a game with Juulie and commented on the odds of a Quaker woman working a game with a Jewish man. She said the odds weren't that huge. I then asked her what the odds would be if I knew a joke about Jews and Quakers. She said "no way". I then told her the joke.

Jesus, a Jew and a Quaker are playing golf...

Funny how the baseball thread always has an off-topic disclaimer. Of course, I don't think anyone planned this mass digression. Oh, and good Catholic/Lutheran anecdote, Chuck! Ain't it the truth!

Me too, he works in the office next to me. :D

This thread has been slimed.

Guess I've got some research to do, then. . .

I'm wondering about John the Baptist, who was a Jew and, well, a Baptist. In that time there were many Jews who were baptising. But perhaps that tradition hasn't carried through time, especially since Christians picked it up.

Can one of the moderators move this over into the general thread, so we don't have to feel guilty?

I am not Jewish and I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night so take this with a grain of salt (kosher salt please)...

Being baptised is like the initiation to the club. There is no initiation to Club Jewish, AFAIK all you need to do is be born to a woman who is already Jewish...and maybe a little ceremony if you're of the male pursuasion...(cringe).

As for so-called "converting" to Judaism, who knows how that works but AFAIK there is no water involved.

Well, I emailed Mark about this, b/c I felt it was too far afield even for an already off-topic thread, but since others are keeping it alive, here's just one entry I found online under "Jewish baptism". It's from MSN's Encarta, so I don't think that they have any ecumenical ax to grind:

OK, so maybe for converts there's a historical conection but I'm 99% positive no such connection exists today (I know that's not your point). But someone born into the religion does not go through the same initiation ie no cleansing required.