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shaindel thanks for posting this. I was just recently asked to donate money for a girl’s shower gift and I refused (politely!) The girl is not a close friend of mine and I have very little to do with her. The reaction of the person asking when I said no? A disgusting look and a mean, nasty comment.
bygirl13- if there is a sale going on that will not be available after yom tov, it is mutar to shop. there are a couple of other requirements that I cannot remember right now.
wolf, lol!
squeak, lol!
ronrsr- thanks for bringing this thread back into existence! i missed it! all of these r gr8!
squeak, I’ve gotten that email with a picture instead of the wife’s final answer and it was so much more impressive that way!
ripley’s believe it or not, bowling and the best day so far- played monopoly with my siblings, about a four hour game!
hey, Joseph, don’t get too personal!
h2- my pleasure!
AGE IS A FUNNY THING
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
“How old are you?”
“I’m 4 and half.”
You’re never 36 and a half, but you’re 4 and a half going on 5! That’s the key. You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number.
“How old are you?”
“I’m gonna be 16.”
You could be 12, but you’re gonna be 16. And then the greatest day of your life happens: you become 21. Even the words sounds like a ceremony–you BECOME 21. YES!!!!
But then you turn 30. Ooohhh, what happened here?? Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED. We had to throw him out. There’s no fun now. What’s wrong?? What changed???
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40…stay over there, it’s all slipping away…
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you’re PUSHING 40, you REACH 50…my dreams are gone…
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you’re PUSHING 40, you REACH 50 and then you MAKE IT to 60…Whew! I didn’t think I’d make it.
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, You’re PUSHING 40, you REACH 50, you MAKE IT to 60, and by then you’ve built up so much speed, you HIT 70!
After that, it’s a day by day thing. You HIT Wednesday, you get into your 80s, you HIT lunch. I mean my grandmother won’t even buy green bananas, “Well it’s an investment, you know, and maybe a bad one.”
And it doesn’t end there…Into the 90’s, you start going backwards: I was JUST 92. Then a strange thing happens, if you make it over 100, you become a little kid again: I’m 100 and a half!!
Age is a funny thing.
mepal
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Espionage:
I saw…the mention…of our dear…CREEDMOOR…in the pages…of the Mishpacha Magazine.
In addition, it was found in an article speaking about fostering children…espoinage…
OMG, I signed into the coffee room to say the same exact thing!!! 😉
NY Mom, thanks for the link
I don’t know if I got that right, but I am trying
Now, I have the same question as kapusta- I’m still not understanding how to put a word in place of a URL link.
hey cool! I gues it did! Now, how do I do the same for bold and italics? (I have no patience to go back through 21 pages of this thread to see if someone else explained already.)
I’m still not so sure how to write in blue… did that work?
artchill, thank you for explaining it. you put it very well, and I understand where I went wrong. I think we’re good now! 🙂
just saw these 3:
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couldn’t figure out why or any of them!
mky, give hime a minute to breathe, will ya? (oh…. and your chutzpah is unbelievable.)
mky, I think ur confused (unless it’s me). The only one who seems to be holding any sort of grudge against anyone is YOU.
I can just imagine… I don’t even want to, actually.
Do you know how many times an email hoax was sent around with the message “check it on snopes.com, they have verified this” was posted? Well, I check EVERY SINGLE TIME and 99.9% of the time, if not 100% of the time the information being emailed is FALSE!!!
whoah, mky, calm down! I’ve been following this thread without commenting for the past day or so, and mky, it looks like you need a Tylenol.
sunflower, i totally empathize with you, I feel the same way. But that’s what you get when you state your opinion, and this is what a discussion is!
artchill, apology accepted. I really don’t see, though, where I went wrong with youngbutnotstupid. If you want to point it out to me (respectfully! :)) please do. I’d appreciate it.
sunflower, I wasn’t yelling at you, and nothing I said was actually directed at you, sorry. I came home and found some people yelling at me, and I was too worked up to realize that what I said may have hurt you. I’m sorry if I came across that way.
yoyo, I also love her style of writing, and I avidly followed the last serialized novel, Green Fences- but that was also a bit problematic… though, I really don’t want to get into that.
mepal… I put in something to keep you from falling asleep due to boredom. Check the thread: A Humurous Item.
mepal, you asked for entertainment- here it is:
I HATE:
1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time…. I know where my watch is, thank you!
2. When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it? Do people do this?
3. When people say while watching a film “did you see that?”. No, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the floor.
4. People who ask “Can I ask you a question?”…. Didn’t really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?
5. When something is ‘new and improved!’ Which is it? If it’s new, then there has never been anything before it. If it’s an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn’t be new. (note from FunnyBunny: I put this one because it fit, but we do have the concept of “Ein Chadash Tachas HaShemesh.”)
6. When people say “life is short”. What?? Life is the longest thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that’s longer?
7. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
mepal, i gotta think about it. give me a few minutes.
hey, guys. (yossi, mepal… doesn’t look like too many others are here.) mepal, if its really that boring, let me know how I can entertain you.
artchill, if u knew me personally I don’t think you’d ever imply (thru caps lock, which is disrespectful in its own right) that I do not think before I speak, or in this case type. One of the things I pride myself on being is someone who thinks before she speaks.
I do not read the Chinuch Roundtable, but as Rabbi Aisenstark was my sem principal a lot of the answers he gave were actually from the sem students. He would read a question aloud in class and we would answer it.
If you would have read my posts a bit more carefully, I think you would have noticed this:
Yes, I agree that this topic is important and should be addressed to the those who need to hear it.
No, I do not think this topic should be addressed in the form of a casual novel that people flip through from time to time.
youngbutnotstupid: i read your post and my post a few times over and I do not believe that I said anything that implied that your question was stupid. If you ask me, artchill, I did not say anything worse than this:
sunflower
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young but not stupid, AS MY MOTHER JUST TOLD ME: ITS QUITE SAD THAT YOU ARE NOT REALZING WHATS WRONG WITH THE STORY,. STILL NEED EXPLANATION?
i am trying to say that even if these topics may be known i dont think THAT ITS APPROPO for young kids such as yourselfSORRY BUT THATS WHAT YUR SCREEN NAME IS GIVING THAT IMPRESSION, should have to know that a reg magazine is publicizing it to the world. its llike the type of topics- plz think for a second – for a topivc you would never want your kids to be exposed to or anyone bec it just doesnt belong in a publec magazine. these things
OR THIS:
sunflower
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ybns- i hate to tell u this butyou missed the point-
If anything, my comment was less hurtful and not at all disrespectful.
All the same, youngbutnotstupid, please forgive me if I hurt you in any way.
sunflower, THANK YOU!!! I needed that validation! 😉 youngbutnotstupid, I hate to break it to you, kid, but I think you are missing the boat.
Dr. Pepper, keep ’em coming! This thread is probably 3/4 filled with your hilarious posts!
youngbutnotstupid, there are plenty of books on the topic of teens at risk. As far as I know, this is the first (serialized) novel of a topic of this nature and yes, it is shedding light on the topic- and that’s exactly my point. The first time a topic like this is being “shed light on” should NOT be in the form of a casual novel. Reading through the rest of my posts in this thread I feel as if I keep on repeating myself. Can anyone else help me get my point across?
Wolf, maybe you can say something to the mothers who hold their carriages in front of them while waiting to cross the street?
mepal
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tuna?
yes, mepal, that’s a VERY new idea…)
macaroni/pasta- most pasta dishes taste fine cold
hard-boiled eggs
salad with bread on side
yogurt
Very random… I have extremely little knowledge of yiddish, and recently, I’ve come across this word a few times- oisvorf. What or who is that?
artchill, i’m not arguing with the fact that problems should be exposed. However, there is a way of doing it. A novel serialized in a family magazine is not necessarily the appropriate forum for this type of exposure.
b_h, I’ve heard the same story the other way around- that the guy pulled the girl out of the street.
artchill, the story is not exxagerated, true. But, as sunflower pointed out, many ages are reading this story and it is too revealing of things going on nowadays. That information may need to get out to the public, but not necessarily in the form of a novel such as this one.
I wouldn’t know, areivim!
sammygol, well said. I agree with you 1000%.
just saw 2- this one in front of a Lubavitch yeshiva: SEVEN770 and NYC 70
Yes, I am following the story. Though I do enjoy the writing style, this is a very atypical story line. Truth is, I think I have to wait more and see where the whole plot is going to go. It’s too early to tell. Her last story, Green Fences, was also atypical but sort of interesting. I like reading what she writes, even though I may not necessarily enjoy the content.
A600 the latter sounds like the type of song the Admour M’Creedmoor would sing!
estherh- that’s one of my favorite!
mod72- funnily enough, I was considering opening a new thread to paste that into 😉
Thanks, 80
the original thread started by ames is HERE. YW Moderator-72
mepal, not if we get a good lawyer ;)- I’m still waiting for you to give me some info about that.
Don’t know if this one was posted before, so if it was, sorry. It’s long but it’s good!
Yes it was posted not long ago. But I think we can post it again…80
CARROT, EGG, AND COFFEE
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen.
She filled three pots with water.
In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me, what do you see?”
“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied.
She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. She then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked. “What’s the point, mother?”
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity–boiling water–but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting. However after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water they had changed the water.
“Which are you?” she asked her daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
Think of this: Which am I?
Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength? Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a spirit and a hardened heart? Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when
things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate to another level?
How do you handle adversity?
ARE YOU A CARROT, AN EGG, OR A COFFEE BEAN?
REMINDER- it’s almost Yom Kippur. Are we prepared? The following link is an incredible speech given by Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein (orignally intended for Rosh Hashanah)- listen or watch it, it’s worth it!
mepal, only if you help me. Where can I get a good lawyer?
PY613 I’ve heard that told over many times in many versions and I love it every time!
This is sooooo frustrating! I NEED to open an important email! HELP! Can I sue Google/gmail?
Is anyone else here having a problem with Gmail yesterday/today? I can’t access my contacts list, which means I can’t email anyone or chat.