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Crookshanks! Yeah, he’s awesome! 😀

Metamorphamagus. (Now guess my favorite HP character. 🙂 )

Wolf: Yeah, I meant given that other people have superpowers. And that I could control my power and only assimilate what I wanted to (poor Rogue 🙁 ). And your memory goes waaaaay too far back for me. 🙂

QB: Jean? Or Emma Snow?

o_O = raised eyebrow, incredulity, bewilderment

C’mon, you’ve NEVER heard about lightning hitting sand? You didn’t have to guess the proper name to get it right.

supergirl613: Bring it on! 🙂

The ability to assimilate everyone else’s powers. Duuuuh. (Now guess who my favorite X-man is. 🙂 )

lol soliek, I had to build a computer (on paper) for my computer theory class last semester. Sandy Bridge E, 64GB RAM, 2 2TB hard disks, 512GB SSD, and nVidia GTX580. The machine (plus, of course, all my nifty peripherals) cost over $20,000. 🙂

Ctrl Alt Del: I don’t have anything else to add except that it’s really irritating to try and do graphics and video editing on an underpowered machine. If you are going to do so regularly, it’s really, really worth it to spend the little extra. Wait for back-to-school or 4th of July sales. I got my laptop new at a back-to-school sale for $500 – it was over $750 before rebate and sale.

more, how do you know about half, ice cream, and QT pie?

It’s code for an infinite loop. 🙂

Yeah, I thought it was interesting. 🙂 crazybrit, you have to admit, everyone’s HEARD of it. It’s not like you couldn’t have gotten it.

Who’s going next?

Okay, should I just tell it to you already? I think we’ve exhausted all questions, guesses, etc.

It is a crystal (of sorts). It’s not a rock, but sometimes it’s produced from rock.

Nope. Good guess, though.

I just noticed today that UPS’s phone number is 1800-PICK-UPS. I thought that was pretty good.

I’m at school and they ONLY have IE and I can’t install anything and the ads are flashing flashing flashing arggggh.

I’m curious…do people factor in the income the girl will be generating when they talk about “support,” or are they just looking at her parents’ assets?

real-brisker, where are you?!

It can’t be alive, it’s not round, it’s not a shoe horn OR an electronic device, it’s not manmade, it’s not a food, it can’t be used as a tool, it’s a mineral, it can be pluralized with -s, it’s not diamonds or rubies, it’s not rare, it’s not mined, it’s sometimes found on mountains, it DOESN’T have anything to do with volcanoes, it can (maybe) be found in a backyard, it can be worn as jewelry, it’s not found on the periodic table, and it is not named after any person.

I have a further question – what if the person’s an older single? I mean, not that they don’t want to get married, but are they supposed to live out their entire life looking for a shidduch? Is there ever a point where they can say, “I’m too old and I need to start living my life already, whether or not I ever get married”?

I don’t think you understand what “anecdotal evidence” means. From Wikipedia:

“Accounts of direct personal experience are commonly equated to anecdotal evidence where the evidence is anecdote, hearsay or represents a conclusion deduced from generalization. Unlike anecdotal evidence, the reliability of accounts of personal experience is normally capable of assessment for legal proceedings.”

But enough nitpicking already. My point is, you really don’t know anything about seminary-age girls and their considerations for seminary, so your opinion is understandably based on a very nebulous understanding of teenage girls and their seminaries. The academic and/or intellectual content of a seminary is a factor in every sem girl’s decision, whether she is looking for that content or not. Of course, if there are other factors that are much more important to a person, they will probably trump. But a lot of people do rank seminaries by their intellectual value.

And I don’t know what you think personal attacks add to your argument. They are pointless, really.

(For the record, I’d just like to say that I really agree with you on the smoking thread. I think I’ll toodle on over there now. 🙂 )

Should I just say it or do you want 5 more guesses?

bpt: Does it have to do with nail polish?

Yes, to download FF or Chrome.

lol

The distinction between “yeshiva bochurim aren’t competent enough to go to college,” and “‘few’ Yeshiva guys are competent enough to make it in ‘real’ college” is completely lost on me. And if the point you were making about the SAT only applied in your case, then why did you post it on that thread (without taking into account that it was irrelevant to the OP)?

Okay, so now I’ll share some non-anecdotal evidence with you. I’m a very intellectual person (feel free to contest this, too), and I was in fact very determined NOT to go to seminary in Israel for the reason you’re touting (and some others). I really wasn’t interested in spending a year memorizing trivia and being tested on it – and even less interested in going to a “non-academic” seminary. But then some people pushed me into some actual research, and I talked to some more informed people about it, and I found out that my understanding was based on exactly that – anecdotal evidence from the WRONG people.

I was even able to find a seminary that was started on the exact premise of intellectualism vs. academics. There’s some work there, and you do leave with more knowledge than you started with, but the emphasis is put on the process of obtaining knowledge – being able to read, analyze, and comprehensively compile primary sources, both in the context of class and on one’s own. That’s how I define an intellectual experience, and that’s exactly how they define it in my Honors program at college, too.

There are a lot of reasons why girls choose to go to Israel for seminary. The reasons you chose are definitely among them, but they are not exclusive, or even primary, to all prospective seminary students. There are a significant number of people who are going for the intellectual experience, and that there are a significant number of seminaries that cater to them. So it really does make sense to rank seminaries on that criterion – for the intellect-seekers and non-intellect-seekers alike. Of course, for others there might be other pressing considerations, but that doesn’t dismiss it altogether.

And I must say that your ill-informed objectivity is just as compelling as my subjectivity.

Lol, glad to be of service. (She also put ??”? ??”? on top of all of her papers, and when we had no idea what it stood for, she was so appalled that she made us find out for homework. 🙂 )