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tonight’s game looked like a fair contest. No sign of divine intervention in that game.
you just need an alternate source of money. Is your daddy rich? Is your choson rich?
You are right to not want to work. Work is overrated.
mine is huge. Quite plush, but not overly ostentatious. I can invite the whole neighborhood over. I want them to be envious.
my specialty is conversation stoppers. I am so good at that.
Two that work every time: “Are you a boy or a girl?” and “Do you know I am wearing Richard Nixon’s shoes?”
no conversation has ever continued once I asked those questions.
apropos of this baseball season, but not perfectly on topic, I am bursting to tell this, while it is still mildly topical:
You may recall the comedy team ‘Bob and Ray’ who were on NY radio in the 60’s on WOR and on Boston radio before that.
They also played the voices of Bert and Harry Piels in the Piels beer commercials.
They were originally from Boston and were big Sox fans, particularly Ray.
I recall the last line of Ray’s obituary, which I believe he wrote himself: “Cause of death: Boston Red Sox”
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
– John Donne
Three Jews walk onto a major league diamond . . . . sounds like the start of a funny joke.
It’s an old tradition in NY to compose teams of players of various ethnic groups — just ask Branch Rickey who did it better than anyone else. A Jew or two, an African-American or two, an Irish Catholic, an Italian Catholic . . . . That filled up the seats at Ebbets Field.
I was really thinking of the greats of the game, such as Greenberg and Koufax. Of course, Koufax did play for Brooklyn in his early years, before moving with the Dodgers to L.A. He didn’t do much playing though, spending most of the time on the bench as a pitcher who was too wild to pitch regularly.
There was also Art Shamsky who played for the NY Mets in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
Currently, Kevin Youkilis who plays for the Boston Red Sox is Jewish. He was recently voted “Jewish Player of the Decade.”
His family name was changed from Weiner several generations ago. He started his career in the Jewish Community Center fast-pitch softball league.
The Baseball Prospectus player page of Youkilis accidentally named his page “You Kike.” They named pages like this: take the first five letters of the player’s last name and the first two letters of his first name to create the unique URL for information on the player. In this case, the URL for Youkilis spells “Youkike.”
In 2006 the Red Sox had three Jewish players on their roster at the same time, Youk, Gabe Kapler and Adam Stern.
Wow. The “world revolves around New York” mentality that some people
Almost all of the really great Jewish ball-shpielers of all time played for “out-of-town” teams.
Can’t think of any greats who played in NY offhand.
I didn’t know He was such a baseball fan.
I do know He loves the human race, or He would not have created baseball in the first place.
That said, I would hope that He would be smart enough not to interfere with individual games, and would just let them be fair athletic and strategic contests between teams trying their hardest to win.
Anything else would just ruin the game.
we have been very displeased with the Kenmore refrigerator we bought two years ago. Doors don’t close, shelves don’t slide easily and fall off, not very happy at all.
It was not an inexpensive fridge, either.
dear The Goq, your answer is so good. It reminds me of the man who walks into a funeral and asks, “who died?”
The fellow next to him replies, “The guy in the box up front.”
I didn’t know He was such a baseball fan.
to think of all the time I wasted studying.
dee shells?
how many gedolim who left the world this year were blessed with long life into their 70s, 80s, 90s or B”H 100s?
there is an anecdotal “Passover Effect” where death rates for the elderly and terminally ill seem to fall before significant holidays and people’s own birthdays, then rise as the holidays end.
portion of article from the Jewish Weekly:
“A desire to participate in Passover can prolong a person’s life, according to a professor of sociology at U, David Phillips believes that older people can, in effect, postpone death in order to participate in an important occasion — be
In an 18-year research project, Phillips studied the mortality rates of nearly 2,000 Californian Jews.
He found that the death rate dipped 35 percent below normal in the week before Passover and peaked by an equal percentage above normal in the week following the holiday. The study was published in the Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal.
“It is my hypothesis that those nearing death may feel that an extended family gathering at Passover offers the chance of saying hello and goodbye for the last time,” says Phillips.”
A diamond ring for an engagement is a relatively new phenomenon, even in non-Jewish circles. A previous poster is correct, that DeBeers did an excellent marketing job post WWII, sending saleswomen into schools, convincing the girls that a diamond was necessary.
CZ has many advantages, too. Diamonds don’t last long in a fire while CZ does.
TJ Maxx or Marshall’s
When I was a teenager, I also had a lazy eye that would wander.
One doctor suggested surgery but my mother sought a second opinion. We left the eye alone and now it only wanders when I am very tired or when I look in the mirror. Now and then, I use it to entertain or scare small children but otherwise I do not think about it.
My mother had laser cataract surgery in the early 1970s, when it was brand new. Shortly after returning from the hospital she started seeing flashes of light. She contacted her surgeon, but he was unconcerned.
The flashes continued for a few more days. She saw another eye doctor who immediately operated to reattach her retina. The recovery time was 6 weeks during which she was not supposed to read, stand or brush her haor or teeth. She did some of those things and the retina redetached. She underwent another operation and another six weeks of recovery and ultimately lost the vision in that eye.
Compared to her experience, mine was a walk in the park. You see why she had been preparing me for my retinal problems since thatnday.
My retina tore about two years ago. I have a family history of this sort of eye trouble, plus I am very nearsighted and middle-aged.
I woke up one morning, went outside and had thousands of new round floaters in my eye. It was like living in a snow globe.
My mother had a tear and detachment 35 years earlier and she had been preparing me for this to happen. Within a few hours I saw an opthalmologist who sent me immediately to an eye surgeon, since it was a large double rip. Within an hour, the surgeon, with the help of a small laser had scarred the area around the tear, so it would refasten itself to the back of my eye.
In another day the rip would have progressed to a full detachment, and shortly thereafter i would have irreparably lost vision in that eye.
For a few weeks the images from that eye were not as vivid as from the untreated eye. I have lots of new, large floaters in that eye, but I have gotten used to them and rarely notice.
With contact lenses, which I have worn for 40 years (I do take them out at night) I see very close to perfectly.
The whole ordeal only took 2 hours, and there was no recovery time needed.
I am very lucky and grateful. I am thankful for my excellent vision.
I will contrast this with my mother’s experience 35 years earlier soon.
First, I would like to thank the various moderators who have PREVENTED me from offending or hurting people.
Second, I am sorry for any offense I may have given, intentional or unintentional.
Third, I forgive anyone who thinks they may have offended me, I have enjoyed my time in the Coffee Room and thank you all for your participation.
when we read something on a reputable site, we depend on their reputation. The New York Times, and most newspapers, have standards of journalism that are relatively high. They do not publish hearsay, they do not publish information that can not be verified by two sources. They have a long history of doing that, so their readers have come to TRUST what they read, based on their long and faithful adherence to those standards.
Ocassionaly misinformation does get published, but a legitimate journalistic source will seek that out and print a retraction.
Interpretation is a different story. You ask two Jews their opinions, and you will get at least three opinions. The same can be said of those who interpret the news.
In short, we believe what appear to be facts we read in our newspaper because the journalists and editors have been trustworthy in the past.
I had a retinal tear. Do I qualify for anything?
In the very late 1950’s and early 1960’s when the polio vaccines first became widely available, parents would take their children to mass vaccinations at high schools, parks, community centers, etc., to get the vaccination (by hypodermic syringe at first, later by the much-preferred sugar cube.) At that time, with the memories fresh from the 1952 polio epidemic, no mother was debating the wisdom of having a child immunized.
Vaccines are truly proof of the mercy and kindness of our Creator. To refuse them outright is an insult to Him.
If you doubt me, you are probably too young to remember the pain, suffering and anxiety caused by polio. Ask your grandmothers about Polio.
The first symptoms of polio are the same as a cold, so parents would worry at every sniffle that their child would end up paralyzed or dead. Parents would keep their children inside through most of the summer (the contagious season), and children would get sick and die.
In each epidemic, tens of thousands of children (and some adults) would sicken and die, or become paralyzed for the rest of their life. Their entire household would be quarantined and the family could not go to the dead child’s funeral.
The heartbreak caused by this one disease was vast.
This disease was so horrible that the efforts of Drs. Salk and Sabin and thousands of others created a vaccine that was truly a miracle, comparable to any of the great miracles of the past.
Miracles should not be ignored or scoffed at, just because they are recent.
dear akuperma – I adored your satiric entry.
Why would He have created such an orderly, ruled world and given us curiosity and a big brain, then not expected us to study it?
I started them in 1994, and I regret it deeply.
I pushed 50 many years ago.
is he the American Ephraim Kishon?
dear Aries and Cucumber,
the QWERTY keyboard was designed to be inefficient and SLOWer. On manual and electric typewriters, if you typed too fast the keys would jam. I’m sure you remember that.
QWERTY was designed to slow down very fast typists so that the keys wouldn’t bunch up and jam. All the commonly used letters either require that you move your finger off the home row (which takes time) or they are under the weaker fingers which can’t type as fast.
Check it out. To type E, T, I, O, N, H, R and U, 8 of the ten most commonly used letters, you have to move your finger first. The a key is under your pinkie, which slows you down, too.
Now, typesetting machines, which are almost as old as typewriters have an extremely logical home row (where your fingers go). That home row is ETAION SHRDLU – so your fingers sit over the most commonly used letters, you don’t have to move your finger before hitting the key. You can really type fast on those.
dear HaLeIVi, the QWERTY keyboard certainly is broken, it was designed to slow people down in an age of mechanical typing. We no longer have problems with keys jamming – the average word processor spends 98% of its time waiting for you to hit the next keystroke.
dear Minyangal, the EZ Keyboard is quite a bad layout, too. Better to pick up a copy of “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing,” and learn the layout of a keyboard. It is a very useful skill. My mother made me learn touch typing in high school so I might avoid being an infantryman in the Vietnam War and be a clerk-typist instead.
The skill has served me very well in life, who would have thought I would have jobs that required so much typing?
then don’t use their services.
when you are young your jaw is more pliable and there is usually much less pain from an extraction. I had my last wisdom tooth removed last year, when I was in my 50’s, and it was very painful for six weeks. When I had the others removed, in my 30’s, it was a cakewalk.
I hope you are soon able to transcend dental medication. If not, call the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, DDS.
The Rev. Pat Robertson said today that in certain cases, a man can divorce his wife if she has Alzheimer’s disease.
I know he’s not a rebbe, but I am a bit shocked by his remarks.
great news, Yossi. Which campus?
with the most-used letters on the center (home) row, so that you don’t have to move your fingers up and down as much. the home row is AOEUIDHTNS the lesser used letters PYFGCRL are in the row above, and the even lesser used letters QJKXBMWVZ are below.
I’m an excellent typist and can type well on both keyboards though occassionally when I use a letter that is the same position on both keyboards, such as A, I will occasionally switch keyboard modes and start typing as if I were on the other keyboard.
In english, the most commonly used letters are ETAIONSHRDLU – see how much wasted movement there is on a QWERTY keyboard.
not dying. that is the key to longevity.
People who don’t die early have many more birthdays than those who do. It’s a proven fact.
right! another point for Ms. Momish.
who said, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to be a fish and he’ll swim away?”
My wire-rimmed contacts are external. They’re like the glasses John Lennon wore, only smaller.
They are just like other wire-rimmed gasses, but smaller.
Personally, I wear wire-rimmed contact lenses.
Forgot to pay their webhosting bill.
he is portrayed as cruel and heartless, but he was really a hunny.
Shabbat shalom, y’all.
Let it be
I give up
My head hurts
All things pass
You are mine
It’s my fault