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18. What comes before “Minie Moe.”
19. Unintelligent Shadchan.
20. Tool for collecting long serpents.
21. Belmont, or Aqueduct.
22. Seven days when computer whizzes get together.
23. He teaches clergymen to sermonize.
24. Humorous rabbit.
7. tight knight? Chintz Prince? Mean Queen?
2. insipid lipid
5. Vigoda’s pagodas (aren’t they japanese?)
8. Cub’s flubs
10. Hutton’s gluttons
11. Giant’s defiance.
14. Double-nickel pickle???
14. Jewish Marriage Contract as sanctioned by Fidel Castro.
15. Computer from USA Nation’s Capital.
16. Yarmulke that filters even the finest particles.
17. Curved yellow fruit grown on the Plain of Sharon.
before I had a family-plan phone, I had a Tracfone, which worked out pretty cheaply. I bought minutes on eBay and took advantage of all the promotions. It came out to as little as $6. / month. I didn’t make very many calls.
1. Islanders’ Highlander
3. Mike hike
6. Dell Deal Delight
7. Boris Bore Us
dogs are very special among all the creatures of the earth. They are one of the very few species that seek humans out for COMPANY. Some animals seek us out because we’re tasty, but most fear us and wisely keep their distance.
Dogs like us, and have many of the attributes we admire and foster in other human beings — gratitude, enthusiasm, loyalty, etc.
where do people who work at the fire hydrant factory park?
Ginger root for stomach upset or nausea.
why do you always think of the extremely witty rejoinder to someone’s comment after you’re leaving the party, on the way down the stairs?
Dear ICOT, I enjoy and appreciate your posts.
I would like to point out that even the metal-mesh washing-machine hoses need to be replaced every 3-10 years. They weaken, too, but not as fast as the rubber ones.
When the hose to a washing machine bursts, there’s nothing to stop the flow of water. If it’s in the basement, you will likely flood the basement. If you’re on a higher floor, you could do considerable damage to ALL the floors below.
Meta-tip: Shut off the water before working on any pressurized lines.
do you have any children who are in need of some help?
Through the machinations of an uncle who thought of himself as a shadchan for people and animals, we got a dog when I was 14 years old. She changed the course of my life, from one that was headed to bitterness and anger, to a kinder gentler life, mostly due to what I learned from her, and the behavior she encouraged in me. Without her, my life would have taken a much different course.
She showed generosity, kindness, loyalty, enthusiasm, friendship and affection to me, and rewarded the same attributes in me, paying more attention to my learning these than any human could. She was an excellent listener. I’m not sure I would have gotten through my teenage years without her.
She looked at me with such admiration that I tried to live up to her image of me (Dogowners prayer: Oh, Lord, please let me be half as good as my dog thinks I am.)
Maybe this dog is your bashert pet.
I heard that duct tape and havdalah wine is useful for getting rid of a dog. Oh, whoops. Wrong thread. That’s a wart. Sorry.
Errata: I stand corrected once again. According to one of the many fact-checkers I employ, Buddy Sorrell was sneaking out of the office to see a Cantor (Chazzan) and not a rabbi, to learn Torah cantillation, so he could become bar mitzvah.
Ok, I still stand corrected on Seinfeld. In 9 seasons, and 180 episodes, there was only a bit of jewishness in the show.
But, Dear Pashuteh, I think your premise may be wrong.
Most people would say that the worst decade for Jews in the US was the 1930’s. Father Coughlin was spewing his antisemitic vitriol from Detroit over the nationa airwaves, Hitler’s propaganda machine was supplying anti-Jewish organizations in the US with first-rate propaganda.
Yet, during that time, even before that time and after that time, what was the most popular show on radio? The Goldbergs, also called “The Rise of the Goldbergs,” and “Molly.” It was a show about a loving Jewish family living on East Tremont Avenue in The Bronx, the parents and elders speaking with Yiddish accents, living in a tenement, using Jewish words, celebrating Passover and Yom Kippur, all the while generally being funny and positive. They occasionally addressed more serious issues, such as Kristallnacht, in an episode where a stone is hurled through the Goldberg’s window during their Passover seder.
Most of the action took place in the kitchen, where neighbors and friends and others would come to visit (*does this sound like Seinfeld at all?*) It was a revolutionary show, and the forebear to “I Love Lucy,” “The Honeymooners,” and also “Seinfeld.”
The only 15-minute comedy that had a longer life than “The Goldbergs” was “Amos and Andy.”
An article in SLATE magazine in 2007k, a Jewish educator said, “This series has done more to set us Jews right with the ‘goyim’ than all the sermons ever preached by the Rabbis.”
So, here was the worst period in America for Jews, yet one of the most popular shows on radio was about Jews.
Today, when antisemitism seems to be at a low, there are only shows like Seinfeld, where we have to grasp at little straws of jewishness.
I guess my point is that there is not a relation between Jews on TV or Radio, and acceptance of Jews in America. If you take the two examples of Seinfeld and The Goldbergs, you can see that there may actually be an inverse relationship (I don’t really hope so.), and that Seinfeld may not be as significant an indicator of jewish acceptance in the US as he first appears.
I also recall an episode of the Dick Van Dyke show, written lovingly and somewhat autobiographically by Jewish actor, writer and director, Carl Reiner, where there were characters that were proudly Jewish. I recall one episode where Buddy, brilliantly portrayed by Morey Amsterdam, one of the comedy writers, was sneaking out in the afternoons. His coworkers thought he was having an affair, but in fact, he was sneaking out to see a rabbi about Torah lessons, so he could become a bar mitzvah. Now, that’s a character who is clearly Jewish and self-identifies.
I stand corrected.
to paraphrase William Gilbert, It is not so much what is on the table as who is on the chairs. When you invite people to your house, you usually supply food and beverage.
Many Jewish groups objected to the Seinfeld show precisely because he WASN’T openly Jewish. His character never identified himself as Jewish, none of the girls he dated ever were identifiably Jewish, and there were no signs of jewishness around his home.
in the old days, if there were too many girls, they’d just ship more boys in from Poland.
Let’s all wear colorful shirts and redt shidduchs.
Dear Hodulashem,
Podiatrists provide wart treatment because warts on the bottoms of the feet (plantar warts) are common but are particularly painful and troublesome. A wart on your hand or face may be ugly and inconvenient, but a wart that you are forced to step on whenever you walk can be very painful and detrimental to your mobility.
but with the jesting aside, warts do seem to have a life of their own, and when they are finished, they just go away. If you remove them earlier, they seem to come back. There is some evidence that if you really believe in the cure, it is more likely to remove the wart permanently. Perhaps prayer is a good supplement to any treatment you might get.
Dear hodulashem, it took many years before the warts feelings were hurt, and it decided to leave on its own. It is not the quickest fix around.
many of the over-the-counter 3% hydrogen peroxide solutions are not suitable for ingestion. A little bit probably won’t hurt you, but most carbamide peroxide is made to be used in the mouth.
best thing to do is ignore it.
I had some warts on my hand for many years, tried burning, freezing, silver coins, duct tape, etc. Then I thought, I am paying so much attention to this wart. If someone paid this much attention to me, I’d likely hang around, too. So I ignored it.
Pretty soon the wart went away on its own.
that reminds me of the judge in the town that I was reared in.
Every Succoth, some municipal official or citizen would hail some poor homeowner into court for building a succah and violating some zoning regulation.
The judge would hear the case as soon as possible, usually the third day of Succoth.
He would speak to the violator sternly, and order that the succah be taken down within a week.
from the news:
a town in Massachusetts ruled that holiday displays on the town common were ok, but they could only stand for one day. The one-day rule was adopted earlier this year, and applies to all organizations, religious or not.
The local rabbi wanted it up for a full 8 days, as it was last year.
In the end, the rule was waived for the Menorah, and also for a “Merry Christmas” sign that was hung atop the firehouse for the past 50 years.
<<<So I guess its a good thing that I’m sephardic. Besides in mexico the girls do begin to date at 16-17 even the Ashkenaz. If the parents see a guy they like for their daughter (kollel or working , FFB or BT .they don’t care because since the community is so small they know the family) they make the shidduch.<<<
and do you have a shidduch crisis there?
I believe shidduch world is an advertiser on the YWN website.
Dear O’omis:
Your response makes too much sense to ever be adopted. Better to declare a crisis and mobilize the professionals and the community, and spend a lot of money.
Dear O’omis,
your reaction reminds me of the following joke:
Q: What’s black and crispy and hangs from chandeliers?
A: An amateur electrician.
Though some have commented on the depth of information available, I would like to remind you of the length of information available.
Around 1992-1996, I was a very active participant of a USENET newsgroup, for business purposes. We discussed many things.
I am amazed sometimes, that I can do a google search on my name, and find many of the wise things I said in that newsgroup, back when the public internet was young, even before most Americans had heard of the Internet. Some of them go back almost 18 years. Fortunately, I didn’t say any incriminating or unwise things, since they’d still be searchable also, and would probably come up first.
So, not only can someone find lots of information on who you are, what you own, and what you’ve said, but all that information may be around until who knows when. Things you say may never get erased.
everything goes better with a bit of ketchup.
artchill is right. If you deliver the gifts in a sleigh, pulled by eight tiny reindeer, it’s goyish.
I always thought Chanukah shopping was easy: a bit of gelt for the kids. something nice for the wife. that’s about it.
festive red and green wrapping papers, with pictures of sleighs pulled by eight tiny reindeer?
Tzippi, because when there is a contest, it is natural to root for your own team.
I have told the story here at least two times here, but I’ll tell it again.
About five days after I heard that Shadchan speak about ‘shortening your list’ I met Mrs R. She was a little too short, and a little too Russian, and there were some complications of her divorce that were a little too messy.
But, she was also a little too kind, and a little too warm, and I liked being with her a little too much. Her cooking was a little too tasty, and when I wasn’t with her I missed her a little too much.
So, I married her anyway. That was three months ago, today. (We are still married, and I still love her a little too much.)
Dear havesome, I’ve mentioned it here before, but many shadchans do say that things have changed a lot over the last 20 years, and their job has been made harder and less productive due to the preponderance of lists such as you describe. Political party, eye color, weight, height, leisure activities, and even more foolish criteria.
from 4INFO’s website:
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I, too, dislike websites that don’t identify themselves sufficiently. Sometimes you have to dig to find out who the site owner really is.
A quick scan of public WHOIS data shows that that URL – http://www.shidduchworld.com is registered to a private individual in Lakewood, NJ.
Dear O’oomis: yet people do just that. With cigarettes as well as whiskey.
Probably because they were wise puffs, rather than stupid puffs.
My mother smoked until I was 14. My grandparents smoked, almost everyone smoked. They smoked everywhere, at home, at the table, in the hospital, etc.
This was during a time when the famous Surgeon General’s Report on smoking first came out, and there was lots of pressure from the children to the adults to give up smoking.
Most did. As I said before, everyone who didn’t have a severe and unbearable physical urge gave up smoking over the next 20 years. What sane person wouldn’t do that if he could?
I tried it, because, that’s what teenagers do, I suppose. I had to confirm it wasn’t for me, even though I probably knew that already.
Have you heard of Shidduch in a box? For those having a wedding soon, there is a kit you can get that includes info questionnaires for the single friends and relatives of the happy couple. They are distributed at the simcha, and the bride & groom take them home with them.
When things are a bit more settled for them, they break out the questionnaires, and start redting shidduchs among their friends and relations.
They say they are endorsed by Rabbi Menachem Nissel, Rabbi Boruch Smith, Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky, and Rabbi Yom Tov Glazer.
There is more information at http://www.shidduchinabox.com
It’s actually a very good idea. Where better to find your mate? How better to spread the simcha?
at this point, I don’t think encouraging most adults to not smoke is a helpful thing.
I think that everyone who could easily quit, has already quit. Why in the world would anyone continue smoking these days? Not only are you endangering your health, but you’re also made into a social pariah, exiled to the doorways of buildings to partake in your habit.
those who still smoke are people with an overly strong addiction to smoking, and they require our compassion, support and, as Health and Yoshi and others said, professional help.
Young people are another story. They should be discouraged and perhaps even shamed into not smoking. I was fortunate that it only took two puffs of a cigarette when I was 18 years old to convince me that smoking was not for me, and I was never again tempted by it.
minarets are the tall, slender towers on Moslem mosques, from which the muzzin calls people to public prayers.
yes, I agree with you. But, should I ever stray, and am looking for forgiveness, I won’t go to the media.
Hashem is likely to be more forgiving than the media. if you don’t believe me, watch them rip Tiger Woods to pieces over the next few weeks. Rachmones is not in their vocabulary.
I oppose the Swiss vote, too. If they’re successful at banning minarets, pretty soon they’ll be banning kippahs and synagogues and mikvehs and whatever. This is the history of such laws, like it or not. Just because you have no dog in this fight in the moment, doesn’t mean that it will be the same next year.
About a decade ago, a large (LDS – Church of JC of Latter Day Saints = Mormons) regional temple, modeled after the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City was to be built in our little town here near Boston. The opposition was immense and came from many sectors.
But who sided with the LDS church? Many Jewish organizations, who realized that if the anti-Mormon legislation were successful, anti-Jewish legislation couldn’t be far behind.
One of the great things about living in America, and perhaps in Switzerland until recently, is that we have true religious freedom. That is rare in the world today, and historically it is extremely rare. It must be defended wholeheartedly, no matter whose religious freedom it is.
I think the lesson we tried to teach the boy was how to responsibly use a checking account and debit card. The lesson he learned seems to have been, avoid checking accounts and debit cards. The extent that the bank came down on him for a small ($.16, entirely his fault) seems to have soured him on that idea. Not only did they ruin the lesson we were trying to teach, but they seem to have lost themselves a customer.
We’ll try again in a few months, perhaps with a friendlier bank or a new law.