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  • #601569
    bpt
    Participant

    Or are we up to # 5? Either way, nothing draws the old timers like a GS thread.

    Nu, vus iz neiz? I see that several of you are semi-active on other threads, so I know you’re out there, just maybe not in a fighting, biting, eye-gouging mood, so you’re staying away from the mud-fests.

    So? What’s new?

    #1217293
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    HI!!! What a nice break/surprise. Did you bring pictures of the kids?

    #1217294
    TheGoq
    Participant

    I got a “floating pen” for chanukah its a pen with a magnetic base the pen stands straight up in the air i thought it was neat.

    #1217295
    bpt
    Participant

    Pics? Pens? No, I got none of those. But I did manage to spend some time outdoors over the “days off” we had recently.

    Wow, do I miss the summer!

    Speaking of pens, did you know the humble Bic pen is considered a “modern design” and is the focus of a MOMA forum. Go figure?

    #1217296
    yossi z.
    Member

    Hey, thanks bpt! Nothing like a good ol’ shmooze to brighten things up. 🙂

    I miss those CR days. I think all I spent my time on back then was the GS, the mazal tov thread, maybe hangman, and pretty much the socializing threads.

    #1217297
    kapusta
    Participant

    Goq, can I try the pen? Sounds cool.

    For the old-timers (and newish-timers) here, a CR trivia thread would be fun.

    *kapusta*

    #1217298
    real-brisker
    Member

    bpt – How many years must one be here in order to join the shmooze?

    #1217299
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Hi Kapusta! Long time no read. I keep thinking I can stop signing in, since I come here to procrastinate sometimes, but other times I can’t talk myself out of it. And now to find such a distinguished crowd all in one room, I couldn’t resist.

    #1217300
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Kapusta sure you can use it, the pen is nothing special but the concept is kinda cool actually this one is made by totes the umbrella company.

    #1217301
    kapusta
    Participant

    Lol! I’m rather honored to be addressed by name in that post, btw.

    And in this case I’m happy you couldn’t resist. 🙂

    *kapusta*

    #1217303
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    Aye aye General!

    #1217304
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Sorry 42 Aye is a naval term and there are no generals in the navy.

    #1217305
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Goq – Those pens are so cool. I used to have a picture frame that floated like that.

    #1217306
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    For the old-timers (and newish-timers) here, a CR trivia thread would be fun.

    Trivia threads are no fun, because people just make stuff up.

    #1217307
    bpt
    Participant

    ” How many years must one be here in order to join “

    Unlike the outside world, in the CR, numbers (age, shoe size, $$$) matter very little.

    All you need to join the fray is an idea or topic that is worthy of discussion. The quackier the better.

    #1217308
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    For the old-timers (and newish-timers) here, a CR trivia thread would be fun.

    *kapusta*

    Your wish is my command, kapusta!

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/ywn-or-cr-trivia

    #1217309
    kapusta
    Participant

    Kapusta sure you can use it,

    Thanks. Just googled, looks cool.

    Trivia threads are no fun, because people just make stuff up.

    Which people, exactly?

    Your wish is my command, kapusta!

    Wow! Before I even asked! Gotta get it going now… (And some non-stalker friendly stuff would be fun too.)

    *kapusta*

    #1217310
    blinky
    Participant

    Sometimes i feel like the general schmooze threads are an open invitaion for me to pop in…lol!

    As for vusizneis- a sibling got married recently b”h:)

    #1217311
    bpt
    Participant

    ” an open invitaion for me to pop in “.

    I knew this would get your attention. I was going to post a “hello” on the lymerics thread, but did not have a lymeric, so this was plan B.

    Mazel tov on your sib’s marraige. IYH by you, as well!

    #1217312
    blinky
    Participant

    “I did not have a limerick”

    Thats no excuse! If I remember correctly you had some good ones awhile back…

    And thanks, Amen!

    #1217313
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    (A little too much poetic license on the syllabic accents)

    I tried to think up a good limerick,

    I worked so hard it almost made me sick,

    So I started to think,

    How else can I reach Blink?

    Then I figured the schmooze would get him real quick.

    #1217314
    kapusta
    Participant

    blinky- Mazal tov! Nice to see ya around.

    *kapusta*

    #1217315
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    Trivia threads are no fun, because people just make things up.

    Which people, exactly?

    Ignore him, kapusta. Its just poppa making things up…

    #1217316
    bpt
    Participant

    Always runs – Are you checking this thread? If you are, please post a note (or if a re-direct from another thread by another member can be posted, that would be much appreciated)

    #1217317
    bpt
    Participant

    Bump

    #1217318
    blinky
    Participant

    bpt- Didnt want to hijack the hashgacha pratis thread, but i saw your remark about Lois Lane….it sounds vaguely familliar but its been so long I forgot the joke with it! lol

    #1217319
    bpt
    Participant

    I forgot the way it evolved, but essentially, it was something along the lines that, at some point in time, CR members are bound to cross paths in real life, but since we don’t necessarily show our “true” selves in the real world, we might “seem familar” to one another, but we will not quite make the connetion.

    Kind of the way Lois Lane and Clark Kent interacted with each other. (I picked Lois Lane, because Oomis and I are from the same era, so the joke was an inside one)

    So in the future, when someone I meet in the real world has a funny reaction to the name Lois Lane, I’ll have to wonder: coincidence? Or is it Oomis?

    #1217320
    Joseph
    Participant

    Mod, what was the prubleim with the umos haolam thread?

    #1217321
    huju
    Participant

    General Shmooze was Trump’s second choice for National Security Adviser. He was ultimately rejected because he talks to the media too much.

    #1217322
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    The moderators were probably concerned that you were being oiver on “lo Sichaneim”. 🙂

    #1217323
    TheGoq
    Participant

    huju very funny!, I don’t think i still have that pen must of floated away

    #1217324

    Maybe it’s just me but I don’t see the benefit of pulling reprints of controversial, difficult to understand and often off-putting concepts out there with no context or personal face to face ability to know your audience or answer their questions. I am disturbed by what your motive for such could possibly be, but knowing the damage it can/does bring, I prefer to err on the side of caution.

    Torah is Torah, but good teachers will tell you that not everything can be taught to everyone at any time. Especially online. Why you insist and what you get out of it is beyond me.

    And that is besides the point that most of it is already online with open discussions. Why not just join them and come back for the other stuff?

    Thanks for asking, by the way but I think we have had this discussion before…

    #1217325
    Joseph
    Participant

    What reprint and what was off-putting about a Rav Chaim Vital or a Tanya? What I quoted from them is taught in Yeshivas to 9 year olds starting in 3rd grade.

    And where online is that discussed? I haven’t seen it in other discussion boards.

    #1217326
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Reprinted from where? From the CR or another website?

    #1217327
    rebshidduch
    Participant

    The shmuz as in rabbi shafier shmuz # 6?

    #1217328
    Lightbrite
    Participant

    Maybe it’s Groundhog Day.

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