You might be Orthodox if...
Here is a short list of identifying behaviour, that could mean you have been assimilated... err you may be Orthodox. This list found on The Onion Dome.
- You have an emergency head scarf in your glove compartment.
- You know all the take-out restaurants near your place of employment that serve meat-free, dairy-free meals.
- You think of peanut butter as one of the essential food groups.
- You think of shrimp as "vegan."
- You have developed ways of stretching your legs while standing in place without drawing attention to yourself.
- You can't describe your Sunday morning church service to co-workers without using foreign terms.
- You've ever gotten into an argument with somebody about the ingredients in marshmallows.
- History Channel shows about the Byzantine Empire make you wistful.
- Sending your misbehaving teenager off to a monastery on a Greek island doesn't seem like a bizarre idea at all but a very practical one.
- Bestselling paperbacks containing obscure historical tidbits about the 4th century make you go, "Hey, that's not the way it happened!"
- You use "icon" as a verb.
- You go to a friend's wedding and wonder why the walls inside the church look so bare.
- The phrase "let us complete our prayers" doesn't make you look at your watch.
- You know which brands of margarine are dairy-free.
- And buy them.
- Religious terms like 'te deum' or 'mass' in a book about pre-revolutionary Russia set your teeth on edge.
- You think "plagal" means "add 4."
- "Old calendar" doesn't mean "last year's calendar" to you.
- You use "ecumenist" as a swear-word, or have had it so used against you.
- You use "Metropolitan" as a noun. And you don't mean the car.
- You automatically do mental arithmetic if somebody mentions a date, or the number of a psalm.
- You know of two distinct groups of people referred to as "the seventy" and know from context which is meant.
- Your answer to "Is the Pope Polish?" is "Rome or Alexandria?"
- You think of chicken as a luxury and shrimp as a staple.
- "Georgia" makes you think of Tbilisi and not Atlanta.
- The phrase "both Catholic and Protestant" puts your nose out of joint.
- You think Rice Krispy™ bars are meat, but clams are not.
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