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What type of weather kills more people than any other? Hurricanes? Tornadoes? Blizzards? Not even close, heat is the biggest killer by a huge margin.
Don’t forget some nearer by wonders:
1. Paterson (NJ) Falls (the great falls) – an urban waterfall on the Passaic River, just a few miles from NYC. Quite spectacular, and it is not accompanied by an urban national park.
2. Bronx Botanical Gardens.
3. Bronx Zoo
4. Circle line tour of manhattan.
many junior colleges have open admission. If you are a high school grad or GED, you qualify.
of the big companies, I’ve always liked Alamo and Enterprise.
prison guard.
I don’t believe there is any regular minyan near there. A quick check of godaven.com shows that someone is trying to arrange a temporary minyan in early August.
Vermont was lovely. I packed the wife, child and mother-in-law up and drove up there. We walked and walked, took the gondola to the top of Mt. Killington, and walked down. There were many good mountain-biking and hiking trails. Sat out by the pool a lot, then came home. Spectacular fireworks presentation by the town last night. This is really ski country, and this is there off-season. It was very quiet, and there were no lines anywhere. Very peaceful and very pretty.
is there really such a restaurant, or is that just a hypothetical?
good driving tip from my Uncle Morty, of blessed memory:
1. Never rely on someone else to tell you that the way is clear, when changing lanes, driving in reverse, or any other time. If someone says, “you’re clear!” ignore that person, and always check yourself.
I’ve never heard this tip from anyone else, but I have followed it, and it has indeed saved several cars, and perhaps a life or two.
I have a toenail fungus that has been vexing me for 20 years. Can I get it declared assur, so it will go away?
Also, going back to your regularly scheduled thread: The season in Bar Harbor is very short. Since it’s so far from the big cities, most people go for at least a week, and things start to shut down right before Labor Day. I was up there once for Labor Day weekend, and the shops and restaurants were closing already, and it was turning into a ghost town. On the positive side for Labor Day: No lines, no crowds, no waiting! On the negative side: it’s already kind of cold by then.
What was King George VI’s first name? Albert?
Yes, it was. Albert assumed the style and title of King George VI to emphasise continuity with his father and restore confidence in the monarchy, after the constitutional crisis caused by the abdication of Edward VIII.
King Edward VII was also named Albert (Bertie) Edward by his mother Queen Victoria, with the intention that he would rule as King Albert Edward. He chose to use his second name, Edward, so as not to undervalue his father’s status among royalty.
Wolfishmusings, I look forward to and enjoy your postings very much.
Bar Harbor is six hours from Boston, so it’s probably 10 hours drive from NYC.
Bar Harbor and the adjacent Acadia National Park have beautiful mountains, sea cliffs, lakes and dramatic seashore. Many people climb Cadillac Mountain before sunrise, to be among the first people in N. America to see the sunrise.
As with Newport, there are beautiful mansions, since Bar Harbor was the summer home of the Fords, Rockefellers (Nelson Rockefeller was born there), Morgans, Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Astors, and many other rich people.
There are museums and wonderful bicycle trails, walking paths, carriage paths donated by John D. Rockefeller.
There are some spectacular natural wonders, and it is at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, which experiences which has up to a 50 foot difference between low and high tide. The tides at Bar Harbor aren’t that dramatic, but still the tide difference is extremely dramatic.
There’s a town farther north than Bar Harbor named Machias. Though it’s really pronounced Match-Eye-Us, I’ve always loved the highway signs that point to Machias. I’ve always meant to drive up there and try that for vacation – what a perfectly named vacation destination.
Hello, Hello Kitty, Maine is really nice. My favorite spot is up in Bar Harbor. There’s mountains, and a seashore, all in the same place. Lots of trails to walk and lots of things to see, including the huge tide variation on the Bay of Fundy.
Southern Coastal Maine is very pretty, too – I like Ogonquit and Kennebunk and the other seaside towns.
This weekend we’re going up to Vermont, to the Killington area. I’ll let you know what that’s like when I get back.
-rsr-
Ron in Boston
it’s assur to eat pork with your wife? Why didn’t you tell me this before my vacation?
Onset is on the inexpensive side, too. We rented a 2-br house, about seven houses down from the shul, for $75/day. It was small, but more than enough for the two of us. It’s a walk to the loveliest of beaches. There’s not too much to spend add’l money on there.
Onset is geographically on the Cape, but when the Cape Cod Canal was built, it ended up being on the mainland side of the canal, by a few miles, so it isn’t all that popular as a tourist desitnation these days. But, it’s lovely, it is CERTAINLY the Cape, and has a long Jewish history dating back to the early part of the 20th century.
Onset is still a lovely place. There’s a shul, and accomodations are cheap. It is on the mainland side of the Cape Cod Canal, so there’s no bridge traffic to put up with. There are a few nice beaches, the water is pretty warm and still, since it faces Buzzards Bay.
One village over, in Wareham, about five miles away, you can see Cape Cod Baseball, which is extraordinarily good. The Cape Cod League is sponsored by Major League Baseball, and is an invitational league for the best college players in the country. They can play there and be scouted and NOT lose their amateur status. 38% of all current major league players played in the Cape Cod League at one time or other. I saw Nomar Garciaparra, Mark McGwire, Mo Vaughn and many others play BEFORE they hit the big time. Admission to the games are free, donation requested.
Also within a few miles – Cape Cod Canal – there’s a great bicycle path along both sides of the canal. The Army Corp of Engineers has a museum on the mainland side.
I vote for Onset, too.
1. Junior
3. Junk
5. Junket
7. Juniper
9.
Dear yankdownunder,
The helicopter alarm clocks are manufactured, as everything is these days, in China, and should be available around the world.
For a start, search for “helicopter alarm clock” on eBay.
don’t forget that every type of food is improved by adding ketchup.
emoticon613, google is your friend in the recipe department. Just google recipe and a few of the ingredients, and you’ll get dozens of recipes that use those ingredients. Some will use more ingredients than the ones you google, but you have to filter them out.
Happy Tuna and Pasta Sauce Surprise!
by GARBAGE, perhaps he means that he is beyond the pail, or perhaps he is cool and calm and COLLECTED. Anyway, let’s not make any incinerations about the name.
most of the secret spices in KFC chicken are:
SALT.
do you snore? have you been feeling blue for a while? Difficulty in waking can be a symptom of sleep problems or depression. Be sure to rule those out.
There is also now an alarm clock that sets a small spring-wound helicopter in flight. The only way to turn the alarm off is to hit the button on that helicopter, which is usually on the other side of the room.
Dear hereorthere,
When you were a child, it was not so easy to diagnose peanut or other food allergies. Children with such allergies or deficiencies (such as celiac) were labeled as sickly, or failing to thrive.
Through Hashem’s mercy, doctors are today able to pinpoint the problem to specific allergy. This is clearly mercy, rather than punishment, because there is much less illness, death and pain as a result of this knowledge.
There are many diseases that may appear to be proliferating when in fact it is better diagnosis that makes them appear more common.
also, now you can buy completely sealed, roll-up silicon keyboards. Schmutz can not get into them! They start in the $25 range.
(keep in mind that I not only eat and drink near my computer, but I own an online computer store)
Why not just buy a new keyboard for under $10 – you can get a pretty good one for that price. THen, you can have a Pesach keyboard, and a keyboard for the rest of the year. Just like the dishes. Sell the chometzdikh keyboard with your other chometz.
what if the shlepper of the carriage is struggling, clearly in distress? If he drops the carriage, harm may come to the babies.
Ah, now you’ve got me singing:
Hooray for New Math,
New-hoo-hoo Math,
It won’t do you a bit of good to review math.
It’s so simple,
So very simple,
That only a child can do it!
Considering that most of the songs were written over 50 years ago, they stand up remarkably well. Hard to believe that his entire musical output consists of only 37 songs.
Many of his songs were written for the TV show, “That Was the Week That Was,” and thus were topical. Topical songs normally don’t last.
My favorite segment is from a song, “Who’s Got The Bomb?” about nuclear proliferation, where he humorously lists all the countries who are seeking an atom bomb. When he gets to the mideast, the music turns Oud-y and very Arabic:
Who’s next?
Egypt’s gonna get one, too.
Just to use on ‘you-know-who.’
then changes to a hora tune:
And Israel’s getting tense,
wants one in self-defense.
The Lord’s my shepherd, says the psalm,
But just in case,
We better get a bomb!
re: Pi Day Carols
Also, the song, Lobachevsky (
Plagiarize,
Let no one else’s work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don’t shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize…
Only be sure always to call it please research)
is a Math song that can be sung for Pi Day.
Dear Poster, I think we are making fun of objects and mores, not fun of any people. No people were mentioned or harmed in this conversation in the Coffee Room section labeled: Humor & Entertainment
Fear Kashas – Buckwheatophobia.
Basket of Reeds – where the trash is placed in the Senate Majority Leader’s household.
Mitz-Rayim – New Rayim flavored juice, popular in Israel now.
Someone else better contribute soon, mine are only getting worse.
or perhaps, along the same lines, a kosher nightclub – the Koshacabana!
As I was assembling a few computers this evening, I came upon the idea of Kosher Komputers.
Many CPUs (the part that does the real computing) now have at least two processors on them. One for the boys, one for the girls. Memory is also divisible (ganged vs. unganged), and half the memory could be used for each. Thus, you’d have a mechitza running down the middle of the computer.
I have a few more problems to solve before this becomes a practical idea.
Adar has turned to Nissan (the month formerly known as Datsun), and I have turned my thoughts to bad Pesach puns. Here’s the first draft:
Mao-sez (Moses) – Egyptian version of Mao’s “Little Red Book.”
Ferro – he ruled Egypt with an iron fist.
Diane Nu – Young woman who is always asking, “Wuzzup?”
Thank you, Oomis, but it’s not my parody. It was written by the singer, songwriter, pianist and mathematician, Tom Lehrer. He wrote it to honor Andrew Wiles proof of Fermat’s Theorem, at a much later date than most of his other songs, in the 1990’s, I believe.
Of course, it’s not as good as some of his classic works, such as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park.”
One song Lehrer wrote, with a Jewish theme, is “(I’m Spending) Chanukah in Santa Monica.”
(I’m Spending) Chanukah in Santa Monica, by Tom Lehrer:
I’m spending Chanukah in Santa Monica,
Wearing sandals lighting candles by the sea.
I spent Shavuos, in East St. Louis,
A charming spot but clearly not the spot for me.
Those eastern winters, I can’t endure ’em,
So every year I pack my gear
And come out here ’til Purim.
Rosh Hashona, I spend in Arizona,
And Yom Kippa, way down in Mississippa.
But in Decemba, there’s just one place for me.
‘Mid the California flora,
I’ll be lighting my menorah.
Like a baby in his cradle
I’ll be playing with my dreidl.
Spending Chanukah, in Santa Monica, by the sea
Here’s to Judas Maccabeus,
If he could only see us,
Spending Chanukah, in Santa Monica, by the sea.
see us
No problem, Mr. Rebel. As every geometry student knows, Pie Are Squared, anyway.
Bark Obama – How Bo,the first dog, greets his master.
and to quote my dear, late 10th grade geometry teacher, Miss Kruse, “Math goes better with Coca-Cola.”
If you missed celebrating Pi Day, don’t despair. July 22nd is Pi Approximation Day, to honor the ancient Greek Mathemetician Archimedes who first approximated Pi as 22/7 (an even closer approximation than 3.14).
Also available for celebrating is April 25th, when the earth has traveled 1/Pi (2 radians) of its orbit around the sun, according to the Gregorian calendar.
We always try to invite friends or relations over. Of course, they don’t always come. Sometimes we have pizza on Friday eve, in order to help make the sabbath special.
I never understood why people state that about snowflakes. What two non-manufactured things are exactly alike. No two people are exactly alike, no two kugels are exactly alike.
Q. What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
No holiday is complete without a song, so I’d like to suggest Tom Lehrer’s “That’s Mathematics,” sung to the tune of “That’s Entertainment.”
Counting sheep
When you’re trying to sleep,
Being fair
When there’s something to share,
Being neat
When you’re folding a sheet,
That’s mathematics!
When a ball
Bounces off of a wall,
When you cook
From a recipe book,
When you know
How much money you owe,
That’s mathematics!
How much gold can you hold in an elephant’s ear?
When it’s noon on the moon, then what time is it here?
If you could count for a year, would you get to infinity,
Or somewhere in that vicinity?
When you choose
How much postage to use,
When you know
What’s the chance it will snow,
When you bet
And you end up in debt,
Oh try as you may,
You just can’t get away
From mathematics!
Andrew wiles gently smiles,
Does his thing, and voila!
Q.E.D., we agree,
And we all shout, hurrah!
As he confirms what Fermat
Jotted down in that margin,
Which could’ve used some enlargin’.
Tap your feet,
Keepin’ time to a beat,
Of a song
While you’re singing along,
Harmonize
With the rest of the guys,
Yes, try as you may,
You just can’t get away
From mathematics!
<<Oh well… I wonder what circle of the netherworld I’m going to go to because I allowed Eeees to speak to me first…>>>
Probably the fourth or fifth circle, would be my guess.
And, what about the quiet guys? In some cases, if the girl doesn’t speak first, no talking will be done.
Bark Obama – vocabulary of Bo, the First Dog.
has anyone tried to borrow money from any of the mods? which one is the easiest mark?
almost all states now require comprehensive assessment tests to graduate from High School, as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. This is a relatively recent development that they have been required.
Regents Exams in NY have been around since 1865, and the High School Regents Exam since 1878.
Dear Oomis, I posted two Purim-ish jokes up the page a bit.
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one guess per person, please.
E?