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Yes, Spirit is great for Florida and the Caribbean. That’s the airline I got the $29 tickets on last winter.
I like to use the search engine at Orbitz – let it check a few days before and a few days after you plan to go, too. There are bargains to be had by flying on certain days.
Tuesday afternoon is the best time of the week to purchase a ticket.
Where are you going? I may have some tips on bargain airlines for you.
Last winter, we flew to Florida twice, once paying $29 ea way, and once paying $49 ea way, plus $30 to check our bags.
WHAT do one of these hats cost?
be sure to be prudent in your costuming while flying. Check with the TSA to make sure that they will allow you fly with the keffiyah and plastic machine gun.
for a truly amazing backward/forward foot arrangement, check out the gecko, which can walk up and down glass with ease.
Eng-uh-land swings like a pendulum do
Bobbies on bicycle, two-by-two
Westminster Abbey, the Tower of Big Ben
and the rosey-red cheeks on the little child-ren.
I am from NEW England.
Q: How many Zionists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Three. One to change it and two to declare that the whole of the Jewish People stand behind their actions.
Lower your standards, that’s the trick.
According to the sage, Ann Landers, there is a match for everyone, if you set your sights low enough.
Cucamonga. If you tire of the sights, you can have fun just saying the name.
I got a similar warning from the Nigerian Postal Inspection Service.
also from Allan Sherman, from the song, “Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max, My Boy,” the list of all the friends and relatives on Ocean Parkway:
“
Meet..
Merowitz, Berowitz, Handelman, Schandelman
Sperber and Gerber and Steiner and Stone
Boskowitz, Lubowitz, Aaronson, Baronson,
Kleinman and Feinman and Freidman and Cohen.”
“Smallowitz, Wallowitz, Tidelbaum, Mandelbaum
Levin, Levinsky, Levine and Levi
Brumburger, Schlumburger, Minkus and Pinkus
And Stein with an “e-i” and Styne with a “y” “
sung to the tune of “76 Trombones” from The Music Man by Meredith Wilson. Lyrics parodized by Allan Sherman:
“Seventy-six Sol Cohens in the country club,
And a hundred and ten nice men named Levine!
And there’s more than a thousand Finks
Who parade around the links-
It’s a sight that really must be seen…”
I would borrow from James Thurber, “My world, and welcome to it.”
for those of you who don’t know me yet, I am Mary, Queen of Scots.
I can tell you about Misr-Air, the Egyptian airline. That’s Misr as in Mitzriam, not as in misery. Not such a good experience, but that was long ago.
I know this is not an answer to the question you asked, but I can’t wait any longer for someone to ask all the obscure questions that I have answers to.
Potok was reared in an orthodox household and was an ordained rabbi, from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
why would you deprive any Jew of a dignified burial with his/her family?
that negative reinforcement idea is sounding better and better.
oh, I wish it were that easy. Osmosis sounds like the way to go, but my wife and I both eat and cook well, and he just likes to eat the cheapest junk. He says he doesn’t like home cooking, which is a shame, since my wife is a wonderful cook. His preferences run to preserved meats, white bread and candy.
He’s been with us for a year-and-a-half, and the osmosis hasn’t even started to take.
Now, I’m starting to buy him sugary foods that are better than the candy he buys himself. I give him sweet granola and nut bars for his walk to school in hopes of displacing his usual breakfast of a candy bar.
He’ll only be with us another 6-9 months, and I feel panicky that he needs so many life skills to live independently (even at college) and I’m running out of time.
I still need to teach him: thrift, budgeting, how to do laundry (we have been working on this one for 15 months), how to keep a datebook and a checkbook, etc. That’s just the top of the list.
He is a slender, healthy-looking boy, in apparent good health now, but I worry about the sheer amount of white sugar he eats every day, some days close to a pound.
He’s a nice kid and most days I am very fond of him and care for his future. We talk a lot and have a good relationship, but as with many teenagers, he knows everything and there’s nothing he can learn from me.
I am having the same trouble with an 18-year old. He has only been living with us for a year, and grew up in Russia where he learned nothing of good eating habits.
Left to his own devices his diet would be meat and candy. We are having a hard time changing that. He is very strong-willed and skeptical of advice.
some are born mods, some achieve modhood, others have modhood thrust upon them.
darn those antisemites!
darn antisemites!
it really was me. I’m sorry.
next tishebov.
famisht.
Hey Jewed.
I used it for davening at my favorite shul, The Gates of Sleep.
huh?
Ron-are-ess-are
you gotta be kidding.
We actually have a teenage boy from Siberia living with us for two years. He hates the winters here. He complains they are much too windy unlike Siberia where the cold is tolerable because the air is still.
brobdingnagian – giant
piscatorial – relating to fish
tantamount (uncle of a horse)
mellifluous (flowing like honey)
catamaran (a type of boat)
prestidigitation – sleight of hand
paterfamilias – head of a family (male)
majordomo – one who runs a household
rotogravure – an form of printing using rotary press and intaglio engraving. Good for printing your glossy Sunday supplement.
hermeneutics.
I control the weather.
I wash my car to make it rain.
I paint my porch to make it rain.
I plant a garden to cause a drought.
It’s easy.
In my next installment, I will explain how I get the package delivery man to come by getting into the bathtub.
if you build it, they will come.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
– Rogers Hornsby
gotta agree.
We do not choose our phoboas, they are given to us.
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Isn’t that what Facebook is for?
and while we’re on the subject, my niece and her lovely husband in Israel just had a baby boy two days ago. Mother and baby are doing very well after a difficult delivery. I am so happy, grateful and pleased, I remember when my niece was born and when I first met her when she was an infant, she was a delightful child.
Is the father doing well? Why doesn’t anyone ever report on the father’s status in these matters? He is probably doing well.
when he was in Salt Lake City, he said he had several wives.
In the first half of the last century, they were been active in promoting education on Indian reservations. One of their more successful stories is of a young lad whom they sent to school and he became an electrician. He returned to his home, and asked the elders what he could do for the community. They thought that it would be good if he put electric lighting in the outhouses.
Thus, he became the first person to wire a head for a reservation.
i don’t get it.
LS/MFT.
In the words of the wise Reb Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over til it’s over.”
It’s over. Wait til next year.
We gave up on them.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains.
That’s what baseball is all about.