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  • in reply to: Separate Boys and Girls pre-school #738282
    popa_bar_abba
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    I used to say wanted to go back and find out who was the Shabbos Ima when I was Shabbos Abba, and marry her.

    If everyone would marry people from their preschool class, it would solve the age gap problem.

    in reply to: Amazing shidduch story!! #719840
    popa_bar_abba
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    Aishes:

    Why is that a nice story? All I see are domineering parents and kid with no spine.

    in reply to: Opening the Car Door for Your Date #721149
    popa_bar_abba
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    Cshapiro:

    What is your agenda here? You act as if I once insulted you.

    Just spit it out already.

    in reply to: Homophones #720769
    popa_bar_abba
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    And here are some heterophones:

    computer- telphone

    car- quickly

    vicarious- generic

    table- incomplete

    composting- incandescent

    in reply to: Opening the Car Door for Your Date #721145
    popa_bar_abba
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    postsem:

    I don’t know why he became flustered. I do what “they” tell me to do if it trust “them”. People who I trust told me to open the door for the girl when I started dating.

    Now, it happens that it also makes sense to me, but I would listen to people I trusted even if I didn’t understand it, especially if there was no harm in it.

    in reply to: Separate Boys and Girls pre-school #738275
    popa_bar_abba
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    Charlie: I know, we discussed it about a month ago.

    in reply to: Brim up ~ Brim Down #1012141
    popa_bar_abba
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    Avodas Hashem- Not judge-able.

    Shidduch prospects- sounds like a frummed out MO guy back from OJ.

    in reply to: Separate Boys and Girls pre-school #738272
    popa_bar_abba
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    I met my best friend when I was three, so there is no reason you can’t meet your spouse at that age.

    Also, Rivka got married when she was three.

    in reply to: Homophones #720765
    popa_bar_abba
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    How many homophones does it take to change a lightbulb?

    in reply to: Democratic Party and the Communist Party USA #719988
    popa_bar_abba
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    Well, Rahm Emmanuel was asked at his residence hearing whether he had ever been a member of the communist party.

    in reply to: OUCH!!! #1097604
    popa_bar_abba
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    Speaking of giving blood, I was giving blood to bikur cholim last year, and they had these pill shaped stress balls for you to squeeze.

    Some of the first people had convinced them to give them the stress “pill”. But they had stopped giving them after a few hours.

    I decided I was getting a “pill”. I went and I got one. It took every bit of haggling and negotiating and begging, but I got one.

    I threw it out; what would I do with it anyway?

    in reply to: DATE NIGHT #720154
    popa_bar_abba
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    People learn from their parents how to have a relationship. If they never see any warmth, they will not know how to do it themselves.

    in reply to: Pre-heat oven? #719511
    popa_bar_abba
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    If you can’t make it on a barbecue or in a deep fryer, it’s not worth making.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719488
    popa_bar_abba
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    Very cute. Now change it.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719485
    popa_bar_abba
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    america:

    Can you please change your screenname? There is something odd and wrong about predicting the downfall of the country we live in and owe a lot to.

    in reply to: Brim up ~ Brim Down #1012114
    popa_bar_abba
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    I don’t think it is laziness. It is a style.

    They do it to look like the others.

    in reply to: Finding girls Shiduchim should be attended to as seriously as Kiruv #720451
    popa_bar_abba
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    Frum guys (who seem way to choosy)

    Is that really how it works? You make it seem as if most dating experiences end with the boy saying no for some odd reason, and moving on to the next one.

    I have never heard such a claim that boys say no more often than girls. Is it true?

    in reply to: The classics, Yidden, and the recent closed thread #719343
    popa_bar_abba
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    Msseeker: You really are a bigot. It is unbelievable. All are chassidim like this or only the rebels who hang out online.

    in reply to: Did anyone ever hear of this story…….? #719311
    popa_bar_abba
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    I agree with Benaishek.

    Blaming it on the distant past is an easy out so we don’t need to think it has anything to do with us.

    in reply to: This week's Yated Shidduch Forum… #722941
    popa_bar_abba
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    TMB: That is quite right.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719469
    popa_bar_abba
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    TMB:

    The only attacks on the chassidish system were it’s results and only in response to a suggestion that we adopt it- not the motivations. Therein lies the difference.

    What was beyond the pale of discussion were the attacks on the motivation behind our system, which has been endorsed by our gedolim.

    Your postscript is precisely my point. I will not repeat the criticisms of the vilna gaon, nor the criticisms the rishonim made of the Rambam.

    You should have a little respect also.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719461
    popa_bar_abba
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    Msseeker and smartcookie:

    What you are doing is very wrong. This goes beyond debating the efficacy of different customs. Your attacks on our way of life are condescending at best.

    There are many things I could criticize about your way of life, and many of them would be straight from the words of the gedolei acharonim.

    Yet, our worlds seem to have called a truce, and we have decided to respect each other’s avodas hashem. It behooves you to keep the peace.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719453
    popa_bar_abba
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    I don’t know what you mean by “extreme”.

    Maybe you can elaborate.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719449
    popa_bar_abba
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    How is dating extreme?

    It is practiced differently in different circles, but in yeshivish circles, they generally go on about 8 dates before getting engaged. What is so extreme?

    in reply to: Deport the Illegals #1211747
    popa_bar_abba
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    < em> text < /em> but without the spaces between the < and the em>

    in reply to: #719151
    popa_bar_abba
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    Yes, this story is too violent for my taste. Nonviolently killed meat tastes much better.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719446
    popa_bar_abba
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    The best response to this idea, was posted several months ago, and is too long to repost. It was in response to the suggestion that the guys date at 18.

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/musical-chairs-and-shidduchim/page/2#post-143134

    in reply to: #719143
    popa_bar_abba
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    Mod 80: can we please demorbidify the play?

    Ida: A man is killed and you call it play? (looks, then shrieks) It’s moving! Julius, quick, stab it again!

    in reply to: New Word Game #1041377
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    ouch

    in reply to: New Word Game #1041372
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    anteater

    in reply to: New Word Game #1041371
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    snowshovel

    in reply to: New Word Game #1041370
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    photocopier

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719438
    popa_bar_abba
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    Anyone with normal brains, will feel some emotional connection to their chosson/Kallah, even if they only have 2 Bashows.

    I don’t believe that. We may have different definitions on what an emotional connection is.

    in reply to: New Word Game #1041368
    popa_bar_abba
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    confused

    in reply to: Plasma or LCD #719374
    popa_bar_abba
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    I “like” mikehall12382

    in reply to: Peanut Butter and Sacrilege #720823
    popa_bar_abba
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    Peanut Butter and Sacrilege

    Another cannibalism thread!

    in reply to: #719132
    popa_bar_abba
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    Popa: Pulls out knife (and fork?)…

    in reply to: Maybe I Should Compensate The Store Owner…? #727138
    popa_bar_abba
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    ronsr: That is a good idea. On that note, you can probably negotiate with the fire insurance company for them to pay you to not burn it down.

    Then, you can burn it down anyway. You get money, the owner gets money, the forensics people get business, the defense lawyers get business, the prosecutor gets airtime, everyone is happy.

    Should we really let the insurance company’s selfish interest get in the way of so many people’s happiness?

    in reply to: Maybe I Should Compensate The Store Owner…? #727136
    popa_bar_abba
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    You could call the fire department and warn them not to go inside because there is a fire.

    Wolf: I don’t really think you should burn it down. But neither do I think you should let yourself feel guilty for doing the right thing.

    in reply to: #719129
    popa_bar_abba
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    Mrs. Gelberger shows her bloodstained sheitel to the incredulous doctor.

    Doctor: I fix people, not sheitels!

    in reply to: The classics, Yidden, and the recent closed thread #719328
    popa_bar_abba
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    Agreed.

    And while I can’t say I had it that thought out when I posted, I was intending that if we are willing to impose policies on people in the name of solving the crisis, we may as well just kill a few and solve it that way.

    in reply to: Mods? Mods? #1107936
    popa_bar_abba
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    We may disagree on which were the stupid posts.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719417
    popa_bar_abba
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    The maturity gap? Well, we could teach girls to be immature.

    I was actually working on my own immaturity earlier, but mod 29 didn’t like it.

    in reply to: Halachic Penalty for Attempted Murder #720306
    popa_bar_abba
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    They shoot at him and also miss?

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719415
    popa_bar_abba
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    I thought I had a really good idea, but I can’t remember it right now.

    in reply to: Maybe I Should Compensate The Store Owner…? #727133
    popa_bar_abba
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    Why, who are you stealing from?

    The owner will be reimbursed, and the insurance company was contemplating this exact risk when they wrote the policy.

    in reply to: Peanut Butter and Sacrilege #720819
    popa_bar_abba
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    Dun & Bradstreet.

    I never went there on a date, and apparently I was correct not to.

    in reply to: A Radical Solution to the Shidduch Crisis? #719409
    popa_bar_abba
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    really inexcusable bad taste

    I wouldn’t know what it tastes like. You seem to have experience though- enlighten us.

    in reply to: Facebook? #719178
    popa_bar_abba
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    Of course the divorce papers have facebook on them. That is how people communicate today.

    50 years ago they had telephone on them, before that they had pony express, and before that they had juliet on the balcony.

    in reply to: #719121
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    You can’t revive the dead; beginning again is not going to raise make the sheitel clean again.

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