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Whereas Popa wanted to make herring, and
Whereas Popa realized there was not enough oil in the house, and
Whereas Popa had already found a good parking spot on the left side of the street, and
Whereas there is a hippy dippy coop store a few blocks away, and
Whereas Popa walked there to get a bottle of oil, and
Whereas when Popa was leaving, there was an adorable poodle between the doors where its master had left it, and
Whereas Popa thought it would be funny to get it to go inside the store, and
Whereas Popa held the door open for it, and motioned for it to go in, and
Whereas it was a well trained dog, and obediently stuck its head in, and
Whereas it was not such a well trained dog, and only stuck its head in and looked around and didn’t move, and
Whereas Popa didn’t want to let the door close on it,
THEREFORE Popa was stuck there holding the door open for like a minute and a half because the stupid dog wouldn’t go in or out.
And THEREFORE after like a minute and a half, it finally went IN, and Popa walked away snorting to himself, and came home and quickly posted this and then eventually will go make herring for shabbos.
How many calories?
You make herring every Shabbos? What types?
Mojave and Sahara?
popa
Forgive my ignorance what’s a number 5 can?
Schmaltz is actually not up there on my favorite herring list. I am more a matjas herring fan.
i make haggis.
Great practical joke, except you missed the part about the clean getaway. I bet everyone i there was shouting at you for holding the door open letting cold in. By then they were perfectly willing to deal with the dog instead of the crazy guy with his can of oil (or gasoline for all they knew). This can be compared to the man who helps a short little boy ring a doorbell and then asks, now what? Instead of running away like he should.
I didn’t understand it at first. Then I figured out what you meant. Perhaps a friendly mod can change every “whereas” to a “wherefore.”
Haifagirl, I though you would comment that one does not eat herring for desert.
Some clarification: A desert – a barren land. A dessert is a delicacy after a meal.
‘Just deserts’ means “that which one deserves”, and it is spelled with one S, but pronounced like the after-meal word.
The word “desert” also means payback, but it is generally not used in that sense in isolation. It has nothing whatsoever to do with dessert.
As a play on words, you will sometimes see the phrase “just desserts” referring to a restaurant, the idea being that you deserve the great food, but this is a pun and has nothing to do with the actual meaning of the word.
PBA is obviously aware of this but as other people are mixing up the terms in this thread, I thought it would be worthwhile to make it explicit.
mmmmm…
whence will my herring come?
I though the punchline would be that popa invited the owner of the dog over for shalos seudos to taste the herring.
Torah
“The word “desert” also means payback”
Where did you get that from, I couldn’t find such a definition for desert. Below is what I did find.
Noun
(A dry, barren area of land, esp. one covered with sand.)
A person’s worthiness or entitlement to reward or punishment.
desert
3
[dih-zurt]
1. Often deserts . reward or punishment that is deserved: to get one’s just deserts. due, payment, recompense, reward; justice, retaliation, retribution, penalty.
From Dictionary. com
“I meant whereas. Wherefore means “why”, and the poem would then be read as “why did popa do this, why did popa do that”, until it explains with because therefore etc.”
That makes no sense…You are telling me that the answer to “why did popa want to make herring” is “because popa was stuck there holding the door open for like a minute and a half”?
Well spotted, haifagirl. I approve 🙂
Popa
The gantze mishpucha is oisek in food?
whereas [hwair-az, wair-]
1. while on the contrary: One
arrived promptly, whereas the
others hung back.
2. it being the case that, or
considering that (used
especially in formal
preambles).
Dictionary. com
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torah613totah: 1
haifagirl: 0
jewishfeminist02: 0
DaasYochid: 0
WIY: 0
JF02,
You corrected haifagirl’s error, not popa’s.
You’re right! Somehow I inverted the two. My mistake. I do in fact agree with popa’s original wording.
Whereas means while on the other hand so me thinks at least the first whereas is incorrect and shouldn’t be there.
In legal usage of the word “whereas” (generally for contracts) it is taken to mean “considering that…”
WIY,
See definition #2.
Somebody has been messing with this thread. Either that or I’m sicker than I thought. The OP was all “wherefore,” and I asked a mod to change it to “whereas.” Now I see the OP is all “whereas” and my post has it reversed.
haifagirl, I thought the same thing! Too funny
Maybe I should just go back to bed.
Somebody has been messing with this thread.
haifagirl, I thought the same thing! Too funny
Great practical joke
hmmm…
It’s Rosh Chodesh Adar, and Popa had to be yotze somehow.
What is a cute little fluffy dog or an ugly mongrel?
Happy bump Popa thread day
Wherein popa uses whereas.
Deserts? Did you mean the Gobi desert? The Sahara? Or did you mean DESSERT?
Francorachel3, you’re making the same mistake I made >2 years ago.
Why couldn’t popa nudge the poodle?
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