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Perry Block
And it came to pass that Moses was wandering in the wilderness.
And Moses was without cell phone and laptop, and he came onto the farthest edge of the plain of Horeb, near the Mount of Midian, only a hop, skip, and a jump from Borax.
And there appeared unto Moses a bush that burneth with mighty fire yet wast not consumed, next to which wast a Dell Desktop. And Moses knew that he wast on Holy Ground and in the presence of the Lord because the Desktop employeth Microsoft Software, and yet did respondeth and wast not locked up!
"Moses, Moses," tweeteth the Desktop. “I am the Lord, thy God!"
And God tweeteth unto Moses “I am the Lord who tweeted unto Abraham and tweeted unto Isaac but who Facebooked unto Jacob, because I was more into FB at the time.”
And Moses tweeteth back “WOOT! My Lord, is this about the bacon?”
“No, Moses,” tweeteth back the Lord. “I knowest not about the bacon, so now thou hast got even another problem with me. LOL!”
“Far be it from me to criticize, Lord,” tweeteth Moses, “but shouldn’t I be the one to hand out the LOL, not thou? Thou madest the joke. I'm the audience!”
“IMHO,” tweeteth the Lord, “I am the Lord, thy God; I’ll give myself an LOL if I want!!! And that joke wast funny."
“Eeeehh...” tweeteth Moses.
“Moses,” tweeteth the Lord, “tweet unto @Pharaoh to let my people go. That is, the Jews, I mean.”
“ULP! Oh, er, umm…there’s the Fail Whale!” tweeteth Moses. “Afraid I didn’t get your tweet. Yes, that’s it, didn’t get your tweet!”
“Don’t pulleth that one on me, Moses! I am omniscient. Whenever there’s really a Fail Whale, I have already kicketh the desk a half dozen times before it even appeareth!"
“Lord, if I tweet that unto @Pharaoh, the reply will be less in the form of a tweet and more in the form of disembowelment! Just sayin’.”
“Fear not, Moses,” tweeteth the Lord. “In my very best form, I don’t plan to play fair. I will visit plagues upon Egypt!”
“What doth thou mean?” Moses tweeteth. “Doth thou have a blog or something that giveth details? And perhaps a contest?”
“No, Moses. These are #TheTenPlaguesoftheLord: #Blood #Frogs #Murrain…”
“Thine use of hashtags is cute, Lord, but don't expect me to check out the relevant tweets, I've only got 4,000 years! How didst thou come up with all this?”
“I googleth plagues,” tweeteth the Lord.
“This last one, #Deathofthefirstborn, should be a load of laughs," tweeteth Moses. "What happens after the Hebrews are freed?”
“RT: And to show His love for His people, @God parteth the Red Sea, gaveth them the Ten Commandments upon two stone tablets, and broughtest them to the Holy Land.”
“What wast that RT, Lord?” tweeteth Moses.
“I didn’t feel like working just then so I retweeted a pretty good overview from @PatRobertson. I farm out a lot to him.”
"Instead of inscribing thine Commandments on stone tablets," tweeteth Moses, "why doth we not just tweet them to the Children of Israel?”
“Because I only hath 74 followers!” tweeteth the Lord. “Look at all the Hebrews who doth not follow me back!”
“Well, thine tweets could use more bounce," tweeteth Moses.
“Now go, Moses, tweet unto @Pharaoh to let my people go. I must complete my #FollowFriday before Shabbot.”
“I see,” tweeteth Moses. “Hmm, who is this @GeorgeClooney, Lord?”
“Uhh, y’know, Moses…since there’s no graven images of me, I had to…er, uh…base my avatar on someone, so…”
“LMAO!” Moses tweeteth unto the Lord, his God. "Think I can take it from here."
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