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Louis Sachar.
Ask your Rov.
Wayside School is fictional. Deal with it.
I never said that Hershey bars are better than cholov Yisroe’l candy bars, just that they’re not the same, and having grown up on the taste of Hershey’s, I miss it.
Well, I miss Hershey bars since I started keeping Cholov Yisroe’l. They are made with real milk. The Jewish chocolate, even the expensive ones, are made with milk powder and it’s just not the same. I miss good, cheap chocolate.
Comlink-X, how do you stop a baby from trying to look above or behind his head? (Or her head, as the case may be?)
Um, I think it’s more like HALF-filled with horrible, selfish, and cruel people. Not all filled.
I met someone once who told me this story about herself:
She was a little girl in Hebrew School and the teacher said that all of the students had to go by their Hebrew names in class, so whoever didn’t know their Hebrew names had to find out for homework.
My friend asked her Bubby, “What’s my Hebrew name?” Her Bubby told her, “Yuchfoot.” My friend dutifully reported to her teacher that her Hebrew name was ‘Yuchfoot.’ The teacher said “That can’t be right. Ask your bubby to write it down in Alef-Bais.”
Are you ready?
Her name was……
Yocheved!
It just goes to show…..
pab, you’re mean. But you know that.
Responding to Akuperman: I don’t think it’s entirely fair to refer to government services as ‘handouts’
I suppose it depends on where you and he live. In Monsey there’s Kupath Ezra, which is a second-hand store that has clothes for everybody, including men. It’s not free, but it’s very inexpensive. But, of course, if you ARE in Monsey then you’ve probably heard of it already.
Poor fellow, I hope somebody’s able to help.
Sure the ‘blurb’ writer could make a dumb mistake. It’s well known that the first edition of The Hobbit had some peculiar cover art because the publisher just chose something strange because they were in a hurry to go to print. I think it had a couple of flamingoes under a weird looking tree.
Not nogeiah to DiscWorld, but in the same category of fantasy fiction.
Maybe she winced because a mosquito suddenly bit her? Or maybe she’s uncomfortable that she’s not married yet and it seems like all of her same-age friends are, and she was afraid you’d judge her.
I don’t think you did anything wrong.
You can usually get around it with a little effort and some careful use of plurals. For example, instead of saying, “If a CR poster disagrees with me, then he’s wrong.” one could say “If CR posters disagree with me, then they are wrong.”
“Look at what you get, not at what other people get.”
That’s what I tell my kids.
Honestly, I’m not jealous of your dishwasher. Or your menorah. Or your disposable dishes. But keep in mind that not everybody has what you have, materially or intellectually.
In our house I AM the dishwasher!
I get so fed up when I hear/read rich people acting as if everybody has the same standard of living that they do.
I was our dishes in a sink, with soap and water and a scrubber sponge and gloves. And we rarely use disposables.
I wash our menorah on the kitchen counter gently with a little soap and a non-abrasive sponge.
And I get a high score on every IQ test I encounter.
Non-Jews can’t eat them?
Getting back o the original topic: I disagree – cookies are always good.
First of all, not all public menorahs are lit next to the public pine trees. Secondly, those public menorah lighting ceremonies serve an important kiruv purpose.
And who says that I can’t be over-ruled? Husbands and wives have to make decisions together, but whoever feels more strongly on the topic is entitled to have the last word.
100%! I would much rather give each of my kids a few bucks and take them to a toy store to choose for themselves, but I’ve been over-ruled.
I agree with Letakein Girl that the teen magazines are not as good as the general interest or women’s magazines. The teen stories focus a lot on cliques and bullying. There must be SOMETHING else going on in high school, but those topics get the coverage.
As far as the kid magazines go, my children agree with me that AIM is the best of them, with funny stories and witty articles on cool topics.
Randomex, please explain already. I know the source, but it’s painful reading all of these ‘I don’t get it’ comments.
Lamed Vov: Just how massive are you talking?
Hmph! You never heard anybody refer to children as ‘kids’? And I thought that goats could eat whatever they want.
I think to OP was just in a BAD mood and decided to post a thread deriding something inherently likeable – lollies – just to get on our nerves.
Or else there is some type of secret code meaning that only specific CR members know.
Huh? How can you ask such a question? Do you actually know any actual KIDS? Most children like lollipops. As for adults, they’re just hard candy on a stick – if you’d eat a regular sour ball or whatever then the only thing wrong with a lolly is the immaturity factor. (Not that that would bother a lot of CR members, but I’m just sayin’.)
I regularly eat the purple lollies from the assortment because my kids prefer the other colors.
This reminds me of the evening halacha shiur at Neve Yerushalayim 20 years ago, taught by Rabbi Moshe Dombey ZT”L.
He prefaced the series about basar’v’chalav by pointing out that kashrus is one of the few areas of halacha in which, the less someone knows, the stricter he or she will be.
It seems that the person who originally told you that you can’t mix beef with chicken (or veal or whatever) got SOMETHING wrong, but it seemed right to him.
Everybody knows that it’s (if not outright A”Z) church-ish to say “Cross your fingers” or “Knock on wood”. But it really gets me when a Jewish publication writes something like “It’s my mantra” or “She’s my idol” or “He’s an icon” in this or that industry or “It’s the Holy Grail” of some field of research.
They also say things like “Such-and-such supermarket has become a Mecca for the Kosher consumer.” How are the Jews supposed to get in to shop?
Also, Terry Pratchett. Yeah, him again.
I used to like Pratchett, but it annoyed me that he always seemed to have to do everything different, like reinvent all of the myths and do it his own way, like he knew better than everybody else, and only he was right. I figured it was only a matter of time before he took on the Jews, so I dropped him. He came awfully close in Small gods, with his parody of the monotheists, don’t you think?