Game January 28, 2013 · 28:25 · 9 min
Deuteronomy Dan: five statements, Deuteronomy or Dan?
The game show returns: Dan poses five statements and the others guess whether each is from the Mosaic law or invented. Rounds: a healed boil shown to the priest (law, actually Leviticus 13), injured-servant wages (invented), 'you shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind' (law, Leviticus 19:14), a detestable cat and the gods of Egypt (invented), and three-year-forbidden tree fruit (law, Leviticus 19:23). Troy scores around 80%. The long comic riff on the blind/deaf law leads into a discussion — framed by a G.K. Chesterton fence quote the speaker attributes to 'G.K. Washington' — that laws and traditions had reasons before modern people tear them down.