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Dear Popa Bar Abby,
I’m a big fan! What I’d like to know is the following:
Do you really have a room full of trolls coming out with new CR posts? I know that the advice column is written strictly by you, but rumor has it that PBA is a conglomerate mix of some the greatest troll minds of our times. What do you have to say about those rumors?
Sincerely,
Trollfan 2012 (because there won’t be a 2013)
Dear Popa bar Abby
I often find myself very angry at the user Joseph. There are two things which especially make my blood boil. Firstly his puppet games with multiple screen names. Also the way he distorts things. The same way the pig shows off its hoof and insists that it is kosher, josheph takes psukim and dangerously applies them in inappropriate and incorrect ways. He reminds me of the quote “a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing”
Am I being irrational with my views of him? Am I being judgemental and unfair towards someone with different beliefs than I have? Am I overreacting when my blood boils when reading a post of his?
Thanks Popa bar Abby
Signed,
Blood Boiling over the Net
Dear Pops,
What if G-d were one of us? More importantly, what would His username be in the CR and what kind of threads would He start?
Also, same question but for batman.
– Am I an apikores for thinking of G-d as a superhero?
Dear Abby,
How grateful I am, to learn of your generous offer to provide all-encompassing counsel, free of charge and open to the public. Here are some questions:
1. Did your education benefit your trolling abilities?
2. Why haven’t I found a shidduch yet? When the telephone rings, it rings not for me. (Even when the bell tolls, it is usually a fedex delivery.)
Am I ugly? Not rich enough? Not chashuv? Uneducated? Intimidating? My boring username? Maybe it’s my third cousin who has red hair, black skin and one blue and one black eye? No one wants their kids to look like that.
3. Another problem is that I am not perfect. My neighbor is perfect. Her life is perfect. My life isn’t. I have so much self-doubt.
Oh, sage Abby, give forth your wise advising, may it flow like chalav yisrael chocolate milk and fill my cup to overflowing.
All the best
Torah613613Torah
Torah613613Torah
How old are you if I may ask?
WIY: Younger than you, I’m pretty sure.
1. Your phd will stand for: Permanently Headed Downhill
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What inspiring advice, ???? ???? ???, ???? ????
3. How did you know? She just came over and told me.
torah613613torah
Youre Israeli arent you…
WIY – See the You’re wife thread. I did, however, feel very comfortable among Israelis.
Ok T613, we gotta figure out a way to ask the mods to let us exchange shid resumes… maybe one of us should create a temporary email address and post it on here with the mods’ consent. Whaddya think?
torah613613torah
Online I am sometimes lazy with my apostrophes. That doesn’t mean I don’t know how to use them.
Thank you PBA, I agree and would not be as relaxed if I didn’t feel certain the mods keep our emails to themselves.
WIY – I specifically state I’m American in that thread, in this instance my comment was not a criticism of your punctuation.
Curiousity – for some reason the mods let me post the internet dating thread, but it makes sense. If you really want to you can figure out who I am.
PBA, I must admit, I didn’t think of it from that angle, and I agree. T’was a bad idea.
T613- I saw your thread, but unless I missed a more recent post, I didn’t see any facts that would give you away with any certainty. Btw, I’m also a paying member of Jwed (though not for much longer) so, we’ve probably stumbled across each other’s profiles and maybe even spoke.
Dear Popa Bar Abby:
I LOVE your column! Each question that I read seems so baffling and then you answer it so wisely and so concisely that it makes me want to run home and read it to my cats, but I don’t have cats. (That is not what I wanted to ask you about).
I have exams for school coming up. I have one next week Thursday, one that I can take at any time next week and I’m choosing between Wednesday and Friday, and one that I will take two weeks after that, in early January. The problem is that I don’t know any of the material for the last test. Should I take time off studying for next week’s tests to study for that one, even though I have two more weeks afterward to study for it? Or should I rest secure in the knowledge that I can learn all the material in two weeks, which will actually be closer to a week and a half because my kids have vacation then?
T613 I THINK WE SPOKE!!! Check your gmail…
Dear Popa bar Abby,
I have from time to time re-gifted to try to match presents to personalities, and now that we are back in a festive season, I am wondering if there are any Halachic restrictions upon re-gifting of which I should be aware. Please feel free to illustrate the salient points with real-life examples. Thank you in advance for promoting my continuing edification!
Sincerely,
A Cat Lover Near Delaware
Dear Popa bar Abby
I find my neighbor to be a major league jerk. He is a self-serving, self centered idiot. I know one shouldn’t judge another person until they walk a mile in their shoes. So now I am a mile away from my house, I’m still wearing his loafers, and I still think he is the same self serving idiot I thought he was before I went on this walk.
-Blisters on feet
Dear PBA,
Why can’t the Americans learn to speak and spell English correctly? It really bothers me. I mean, how can something that is not a book and doesn’t go in a pocket be called a pocketbook? CALL IT A WALLET FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE! Or a purse, if you are female. And said purse goes inside a HANDBAG! (Since it is a bag and you carry it in your hand…)
And the stuff I have inside my doughnuts this week was definitely not jelly. That would have been disgusting.
Sincerely,
Annoyed Authentic English Speaker
But we English hate the French! And because, as an alliance, the Brits and the Americans beat Germany in both world wars, does that mean we can steal German from them? We had English first!
notasheep thats a nice Rex Harrison impersonation.
Dear popie,
I thought I had a good question but I guess it embarrassed the moderators, them not being ferds and all. In the future, do you think its a good idea to not call attention to things just because they may be embarrassing to a moderator?
Thanks,
Stymied
Dear PBA,
Do you have advice regarding falling asleep faster. I already tried exercising in the evening but it didn’t make me tired.
Dear Poppa
how can i make my tzitzis white? I need advice as to my best method.
Dear Poppa,
How do we get rid of Joseph?
Please write back!
Dear Popa,
I said in the evening not right before going to bed. I know it wakes you up.
Dear Popa,
Please provide advice for my previous query, as I am stuck in misery with no direction.
Lost and Searching
Frummy: I think you should repost your Q I can’t find it either
To whom it may concern; namely, the author of this thread:
When it comes to posting on YWN CR, how much is too much?
T613^2
Dear Popa,
Your wisdom astonishes me. In a good way. And I love how you answer everybody. I actually did notice frum in the tum’s post and I also noticed you skipped that one. I thought it was because you agreed with my (unvoiced) assessment that it was completely unworthy of having any attention at all paid to it. Matter of fact, it made me wonder (not for the first time) what makes the mods delete some posts and leave others. Their ways are a mystery.
Agree??
Perplexed
Dear PBA
Dear PBA,
My hubby hates asking for directions, after all he is a male. I bought for him a GPS but now he won’t speak to me b/c he says that a GPS is like asking for directions and as a male he can’t and I’m mixing into his masculinity. What can I do?
Dear PBA
I am only twenty years old and not interested in dating. What should I do if when I offer my opinions on certain matters people think that I am interested in a shidduch for myself?
Dear Abby died….http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-pauline-phillips-20130118,0,861274.story?track=lat-pick
All those people should now be writing to the only person left to properly respond.
That would be Popa bar Abby
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