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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Anyone For a Mc....Makis?

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Location: somewhere in Greece...

We Greeks are pretty enterprising with a good sense of humour...

Hope the Golden Arches trademark police give Mr McMakis a bonus!

ΤΥΡΟΠΙΤΕΣ = CHEESE PIES

ΜΠΟΥΓΑΤΣΕΣ = CREAM PIES

ΠΙΤΣΕΣ = PIZZA

Anyone for a Mc ...Makis?
:)

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‘Listen to Egypt, listen to the people’

AFTER Constantinople, if there is a city indelibly imprinted in the Greek psyche, it is Alexandria. It was named after Alexander the Great and ruled by his successors the Ptolemies, including Cleopatra. It boasted the greatest library of antiquity. The Old Testament was translated into Greek there, and it was a major centre of Eastern Orthodox theology. The best known turn-of-the-20th-century Greek poet, Cavafy, proudly sang its praises.

The modern Greek community of Egypt (centred in Alexandria and Cairo), founded in the mid-19th century, grew to be 250,000-strong a century later. It quickly became a formidable force in trade, industry and banking, and a fine centre of Greek learning. And it produced some of the greatest benefactors of the Greek state.

All that ended with the great Greek exodus after Gamal Abdel Nasser’s 1952 revolution and the ensuing nationalisation of property.

Today, Theodoros II, the second-ranking patriarch of Orthodox Christianity, leads a church that covers all of Africa. But his Greek flock in Egypt is only 350 in Alexandria and 1,000 in Cairo.

In an exclusive interview with the Athens News, the patriarch insists the Greek community will not die out...

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'Opa!' We Are All Greek!

We bet most readers recall the 2002 sleeper hit film, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," written by and starring Nia Vardalos. The movie centered on Fotoula "Toula" Portokalou, a middle-class Greek American woman going through an early mid-life crisis because she had not yet married. As the story goes, Toula then falls in love with a non-Greek, (e.g., White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) by the name of Ian Miller. Although the movie was set in Chicago it was shot largely in Toronto, where we were living at the time, so the scenes of Greektown on Danforth Avenue hold special meaning for us.

In a very memorable scene near the end of the film, when Toula and Ian celebrate their big fat Greek wedding with their respective families, Toula's father, Gus, finally comes around to accept the "mixed" marriage. He shares the following ageless and very touching Greek wisdom with all of the guests at the reception:

"You know, the root of the word Miller is a Greek word. Miller comes from the Greek word, 'milo,' which is mean 'apple,' so there you go. As many of you know, our name, Portokalos, is come from the Greek word 'portokali,' which mean 'orange.' So, okay? Here tonight, we have apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit."

How simple-sounding, yet so profound and true: we are all different, but in the end, we are all fruit. Of course, you don't have to be of Greek heritage to appreciate this bit of philosophy. Nor do you have to be of Greek heritage to appreciate -- and resonate with -- the meaningful story depicted in the movie. In fact, it is because the movie reflects so many of our own families and personal lives, Greek or not, that makes its story arc so compelling and memorable. We can relate to Toula, to her entire family, and to her situation precisely because it mirrors so much of us and our lives....Read more

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An Australian decided to write a book about famous churches around the world. So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to England thinking that he would start by working his way across Europe.

On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read "$10,000.00 per call".

The Australian, being intrigued, asked a priest who was strolling by what the telephone was used for. The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000.00 you could talk to God.

The Australian thanked the priest and went on his way.

Next stop was in France. There, at a very large cathedral, he saw the same golden telephone ...

read on - you'll love the ending...

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