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You should try dodecapostitis, posting twelve times over!
OK, lets put it this way. This week’s english MIshpacha brings an article about Aviad Friedman, a religious businessman who is trying to get chareidim in the army. Why? Read this:
Mishpacha:You are a religious jew and the scion of a rabbinic family. How can you lend a hand to a committee that many feel will jeopardize the Torah world of Eretz Yisroel?
AF: Let me tell you a story. When the Second Lebanon War began, I was summoned to reserve duty. We were the first reserve force to enter Lebanonk, and my own eyes saw things I would never wish on my worst enemies. Right before we set out, ready to go with all of our equipment and our faces covered with camouflage paint, a soldier named Yair Cohen stood up, removed his shoes, and blessed us with the Bircas Kohanim. And that same Yair Cohen went to the battlefield with a small gemara in his possession, a copy of Maseches Gittin, which was then being learned in day yomi. Throughout the days of combat, he and another soldier named Meir Ben Shachar didn’t miss a single day of studying the day yomi. On one particularly difficult round of combat, our unit was given only 45 minutes to sleep out of an entire 24-hour period. These few minutes, which everyone else used to recoup their strength, these two soldiers used to study the day yomi.
When the war was over, I set out for home in my car after weeks of being away. I drove past the Meron junction, where I spotted a pair of yeshivah bochurim trying to hitch a ride. I stopped for them, despite the protests of my friends who were riding with me.
As we traveled, I asked these two bochurim, “Tell me, what did you do while the war was going on? Did anything change in yeshivah? Did you learn all night as well?” (TMM-bold added) It was important for me to know if they had actually done anything they could on a spiritual plane to help their brothers on the battlefield. From their sheepish expressions, I understood that I had missed something. It was bein hazemanim at the time (TMM-bold added)
Now I know that there were many yeshivas that didn’t take off, whose students and faculty fortified themselves with extra hours and discipline. But I also have friends who organize vacations for the chareidi community. I asked them if there were fewer vacationers during that time, and I understood that although many opted to stay home, many others went on their bein hazemanim vacation as usual. That’s what drove me to act.
What do we have to say to that?
Ok it goes like this:
Bumping on a forum (like this one here) means rooting about the archives for threads from months or even years ago, and then posting to the thread, so it gets “bumped” to the main forum page, even though the thread was started in 1994.
On the proposition, assumption, hypothesis, presupposition, postulation, supposition, presumption, conjecture, speculation, assertion, and belief that this post may or may not be a hopeless conglomeration of otherwise useless statements. This will inversely distressing, upsetting, traumatic, heartbreaking, agonizing, and harrowing and just downright painful to those suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, the fear of long words. Chances are that you will now throw your computer screen out the window, particularly if you suffer from rupophobia, the fear of rubbish.
Post a brilliant idea in a “talk about subtitles here” thread.
I posted:
Can I have the subtitle, epigraph, and caption consisting of one the following phrases, words, sentances, ASCII character sequences, vocal articulations, or otherwise wholly insignificant statements?
“Director of the Redundancy Department of Redundancy” or
“Professional Sesquipedalianist”? or
“Director of the Redundancy Department of Redundancy” or
“Professional Sesquipedalianist”? or
“Director of the Redundancy Department of Redundancy” or
“Professional Sesquipedalianist”? or
“Director of the Redundancy Department of Redundancy” or
“Professional Sesquipedalianist”? or
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The Mods.
Who else has any influence around here?
bump |b?mp|
noun
1 a light blow or a jolting collision: a nasty bump on the head.
2 a protuberance on a level surface: bumps in the road.
3 informal an increase: a slight bump in sales.
4 a loosely woven fleeced cotton fabric used in upholstery and as lining material.
verb
1 [ no obj. ] knock or run into someone or something, typically with a jolt: I almost bumped into him | [ with obj. ] : she bumped the girl with her hip.
[ with obj. ] hurt or damage (something) by striking or knocking it against something else: she bumped her head on the sink.
[ with obj. ] cause to collide with something: she went through the door, bumping the bag against it.
2 [ no obj. ] move or travel with much jolting and jarring: the car bumped along the rutted track.
[ with obj. ] push (something) jerkily in a specified direction: she had to bump the wheelchair down the steps.
3 [ with obj. ] refuse (a passenger) a reserved place on an airline flight, typically because of deliberate overbooking.
PHRASES
a bump in the road informal a problem or setback: their relationship has hit another bump in the road .
PHRASAL VERBS
bump someone off informal murder someone.
bump someone up informal move someone to a higher level or status; promote: he was a writer for nine years before he was bumped up to editor.
bump something up informal 1 make larger, greater, or more numerous; increase: they finally agreed to bump up her salary. 2 make, complete, or release earlier than planned or expected: the date of publication was bumped up.
ORIGIN
mid 16th cent. (as a verb): imitative, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
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Who is “ME”? I’ve never seen him post before.
There is hardly anything that never isn’t a lie, and hardly anything that never is.
-TheMusicMan
I have #3350. The disc is pretty good, a bit more “singable” then previous discs like Me’imka D’Lipa”.
Check out the:
Previews on Mostlymusic.com
Previews on iTunes
Music video of “Hang up the phone” (no, I won’t tell you where to find it)
Reviews on JewishMusicReport
Full song “Mizrach” on the Jewish Music Podcast episode #3
All in all: Not a must buy, but… is there any disc that really is a must-buy?
If you live in Tehran, your windows will never need closing again!
I don’t know. I haven’t met anyone who opposed my pet rock…
You mean the toothy thing that’s on the end of some construction machines?
That’s a great deal!
I dare you to try getting into the White House, opening a cool briefcase, turning a key, and then pushing a pretty red button.
I’ll quote Mordechai Schmutter:
“In fact, to conform to the growing anti-Semitism of the time, he ran for king under the platform: Vote for Pharaoh, He Doesn’t Remember Yosef”
-Don’t Yell Challah in a Crowded Matzah Bakery, Introduction
Read Permission to Receive by R’ Leib (Lawrence) Keleman, especially Section 2.
Garbage disposal unit. Chopped liver looks like stuff you’d pull out of a drain anyway.
My little sister used to sing “Yalili” as “…tantz, tantz, tantz, ON EBAY!”
I wouldn’t mind if someone removed the term “Epigraph” from mine. What does it do? What does it mean? What is the purpose of Life, the Universe, and Everything? BLAH! (42)
Ah. You have no taste.
On that note, if you take YWN, remove the Y, add the first letter of the current R’ Feinstein’s name, the second and third vowels of English before it, a D for how dizzying this sentence is, and finally remove the last consonant you get “WEIRD”.
Yet again, if we redefine triangle as anything it then becomes possible. In order to truly make everything possible, we would need to define everything as being everything else, which renders language utterly useless. As a result, the above is impractical, so the way to make something impossible is to state that “it is impossible for this particular object-that-I-am-pointing-to-with-my-finger be anything else”.
However, due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and quantum physics, the above is not entirely correct. There is a tiny probability that the object will mysteriously morph into something else, or that it will vanish and appear on a distant planet. However, this is not practical either, since the equations show that one would need to wait longer the the lifetime of a universe for that to occur.
Whoever said that was quite right.
For instance, it is quite easy to slap a revolving door if you call the state of being stationary revolving . Thus, a four-sided triangle is possible if triangle means four-sided shape.
Mainly because adding caffeine to a digital post would make your screen explode.
You could mention the origin of the yiddish language: Hebrew, German and the word oy.
Arr! Avast and ahoy there, O Pirate! Shiver me timbers! Be there here a single pint o’ cold grog? Blimey! I have a thirst that could sunder the seven seas! Faster, by thunder, faster, or I be sending’ ye to Davy-Jones locker! Arr!
Buy it from Mostlymusic.com for $9.99 and you get a pdf of the booklet, which should have the lyrics.
I haven’t bought it yet.
I once saw an anti-smoking campaign ad which showed a grinning sheikh tossing the cigarettes with one hand and pointing a gun at his own head with the other. The caption:
Use this! It’s faster!
The app is universal, so it works on all iOS devices. It doesn’t seem to be possible to post to the CR or comment on YWN from inside the app.The app does not support downloading articles for offline-reading, which would be a must for iPod Touch users (who don’t have 3G).
A separate CR app would be cool. It would be nice if the whole site would be optimized for portable devices (I.e. mobile.theyeshivaworld.com)
How you people ramble on! Is it possible to derive any sane conclusion from this thread?
People tend to be biased against things. Clearly, some of us hate yiddish (a.k.a some german, some hebrew, some polish, and the word oy), some of us abhor modern hebrew, and someone out there may hate zulu.
Why don’t people complain “we should stop with chulent (no insult, @Chulent)” and instead eat chamin?
As I always say regarding politics, nowadays nobody really knows what’s going on.
People, look, the Rem”a says that it is ENTIRELY ASSUR to change any minhag yisrael. This debate should be strictly theoretical, conjectural and speculative.
I told you! there isn’t a possibly non existent minhag not to eat cheesecake on Chanuka because the gematriyah of Ugas G’vina is 549, which has nothing to do with Chanuka, besides when it does, which it generally never is, which may or may not be subject to debate.
@moskidoodle: Actually, I read these old Adler machzorim that have this great old english translation for amusement: “…Extoll him! Israel of their iniquities he cleanseth…” “Lo! He is holy, he cleaveth flames of fire”-Yom Kippur machzor.
Lo! As the patient may or may not be grateful when a fishbone is removed from his throat, so dost I thank thee, O Mod, who giveth the subtitles, that us mortal members be blessed with approved posts, and that thee shall not remove our subtitles in thine fury. Extoll the Mod, extoll him, for he heedest to our just-plain-silly suggestions, and grants them glory and majesty in the exalted and esteemed… Yeshiva World Coffee Room. (And remember…freshly ground…with cream…and two sugars…).
How strange…I always thought benches stayed in the park…
It depends what you’re looking for:
You can get quite high quality shots off the high-end compact cameras, namely the Powershot SX…HS cameras, which are phenomenal considering the size.
Even better, but bulkier and more professional looking, is the Powershot G1 X,( which I haven’t tested personally) which has this very large swivel display and lens. 14.3 megapixels is enough for most prosumers.
The EOS series is aimed at professionals, and so amounts to big, bulky feature-laden cameras. EOS cameras are DSLRs, so lenses can be switched.
As you said, you do not want any need for expertise, meaning you will just be using auto.
Go out and buy an SX 40 HS and don’t bother with anything higher.
Anything higher will not have a greatly significant impact if you’re using Auto anyway, unless you count shooting
in the dark, where the aperture is most important, and depth-of-field, where the aperture has a direct effect.
This jargon probably means nothing to you, so just don’t get anything higher.
The more complicated a camera is, the more a non-professional may push something and then:
“What are these lines on the screen?” “I can’t zoom out” “Why is everything blue-ish?” “Why do I smell smoke?”
and finally “Call the fire department!”.
Needless to say, don’t get something you do not intend to know to use.
Can I have the subtitle, epigraph, and caption consisting of one the following phrases, words, sentances, ASCII character sequences, vocal articulations, or otherwise wholly insignificant statements?
“Director of the Redundancy Department of Redundancy” or
“Professional Sesquipedalianist”? or
“Director of the Redundancy Department of Redundancy” or
“Professional Sesquipedalianist”? or
“Director of the Redundancy Department of Redundancy” or
“Professional Sesquipedalianist”? or
“Director of the Redundancy Department of Redundancy” or
“Professional Sesquipedalianist”? or
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Sorry, I did my best. Maybe a more computer savvy Mod can make it on separate lines. Moderator
Because the gematriyah of Ugas G’vina is 549, which has nothing to do with Chanuka, besides when it does, which it generally never is, which may or may not be subject to debate.
If you would like something like that it’s best to get a filtering plan from an ISP like Jnet, which filters even before the router, making access through your own line (almost) 100% filtered. Of course, you should STILL apply a good filter at the browser level to keep people from bypassing the ISP filter using https. You should also lock up Wi-Fi devices to keep people from using them to connect to other networks, particularly iPod Touch-like devices. Plead with your neighbors to lock their Wi-Fi with a good WPA password, just in case someone brings their own device from somewhere.
@OneOfMany: You should see my post there!
Are diversified polysyllabic meanderings of the grandiloquent form in direct contradiction with the eclectic prolixity apparent in entirely unverifiable (and heavily redundant) oxymorons which use excessive nomenclatural terminology?
I think that utter, unmitigated polysyllabic mayhem may possibly be a haphazard idiosyncrasy of unknown definition, except the individual designation that it is the use of terminology, syntax, semantics, linguistics, and miscellaneous figures of speech in a manner which is almost, but not entirely, wholly unlike partial, whole, superficial, or in every respect nonsensical, speech, though it may not be.
I think that in terms of features, it’s pretty even. You should use gmail, though, because the future of Yahoo!, Inc is a bit uncertain, but Google will (supposedly) stay around for longer. You don’t need your email provider going bankrupt.
Personally, I use Apple’s iCloud Mail.
Of course! Send “style request” to my server, as I listed above at post #8.
Someone needs to invent a specialized browser that filters in-the-box, and disables all other browsers . Such a system should be set remotely from some server operated by some chassidish-type fellows, and to change your filter status at least a dozen emails should need to be sent back and forth, so a kid cannot change settings by sneaking the password from his parents, or by hijacking their email and sending status changes to an automated server. The browser should also feature https filtering, so it could not be bypassed by using https proxys. All filters can be bypassed, but this would need the actual programming implementation to be modified, and there are very few people who can do that.
Regarding jellyfish, poisonous insects, etc.:
DS (do sting)
DS (don’t sting)
As I said above, send “style request” to my server, as it says above.
I would like to apologize to bein hasedorim about the SFF1 styles, our SFF1 server is down.
@Ken Zayn, I’ve been around for some time now. Check the music category.
@Yamoos7123, look up the term “pun”
What a wonderful world we live in… we can post using fruit..
My name may or may not represent any fact, original or fictional, vice versa, either, neither, or both. In reverse retrospect, even if that was possible, which it isn’t, the inverse proportion of external paraphernalia may possibly refer to extensive title conglomerations of little, if any, significance. This was, is, may or will be an oxymoron, and, or, excluding, inclusive, mind-numbingly redundant, or otherwise hopelessly mangled beyond hope of recognition, a paradox. If the above was true, which it isn’t, little if any factual data may be obtained, as there isn’t any.