When someone says "Bless you"...

[mrsmaalox]

It's one of my favorite Dane Cook bits. Yea, yea I know everyone here hates him, but I think he's adorable so I don't really care!!!

[mrsmaalox]

Also I forgot to mention that at my house we always said "Salud" when anyone sneezed. No God stuff, just health stuff, so it fits everyone.

[Dex]

I like 'Gabachoo!'

[Thunder Dan]

I like to live a hardcore rock and roll lifestyle, and part of that is neither saying or acknowledging the 'bless you' after I sneeze (which rarely happens to be honest because I have superior genes)

[Don Quixote]

"Bless you" is too concise and impersonal. I prefer to quote Numbers 24-26.

Hmm ... telling someone Balaam's third prophecy to Balak, and then recounting a plague, and then describing a skirmish with the Midianites, and finally a census, is interesting. But kind of long, and what does it have to do with sneezing?

[2centsworth]

May God Bless you all!

Romans 3:10
Romans 6:23

[Don Quixote]

Thanks!

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

I actually went on a facetious rant a couple years ago about "Bless yous" and sneezes, like Elaine in that clip of Seinfeld.
And I guess I blackballed myself from the "bless yous" with my friends, I've noticed even strangers don't say it anymore, because in class, one time I sneezed, nothing...then some random dude behind me sneezed like 15 minutes later and he got a "Bless you" and I was like WTF? And it's happened more than one occasion. I don't smell or anything, and I'm a nice friendly guy. I don't understand it.

I regret my rant. I miss the "God Bless You's" now...

Maybe they sense I have no soul.

[Don Quixote]

I'll take it on faith that you have a soul. Pretty sure that you do.

[rr2418]

...after a sneeze, I get irritated. But I don't want to be a so I acknowledge it.

But haven't we learned that the soul is not trying to escape the body during a sneeze, therefore rendering "Bless you" absolutely pointless?

(I don't believe in a "soul" either, but that's got nothing to do with this issue)

One of the reasons people say "Bless you" is b/c it is believed that your heart stops for a second or less. The complete response is "May God bless you!", but I guess we've shorten it to " Bless you".

[Spurminator]

Hmm ... telling someone Balaam's third prophecy to Balak, and then recounting a plague, and then describing a skirmish with the Midianites, and finally a census, is interesting. But kind of long, and what does it have to do with sneezing?

D'oh!

Forgot the chapter.

Numbers 6:24-26

But actually, I like yours better. Better start memorizin.

[BigZak]

at the end of the day, as long as i don't have to smell your sneeze...who gives a ...

[Viva Las Espuelas]

uber-ghey

[DarkReign]

I dont know the origins of "bless you" per say, but I always heard your heart stops when you sneeze, thus the religious comment being made in light of that fact.

[mrsmaalox]

uber-ghey

Bite me

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Bite me

it'll cost you

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

A lot of people I know like to blurt out "YOU GO NOWHERE WHEN YOU DIE!" when someone sneezes.

I'm stealing this.

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

It's one of my favorite Dane Cook bits. Yea, yea I know everyone here hates him.

So you and he share something in common?
In that case, you two should form your own forum.

[manufor3]

Just say it. It doesn't mean anything.

I remember a hard-core atheist from college, who made it a point not to say "bless you" or "goodbye" because they were derived from theistic sayings. I thought he was being a bit silly.

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