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Go ask Mommy
Lux et veritas
In vino veritas
Veni, vidi, vici
Friend, Romans, Countrymen
Amo, amas, amat
do not touch!
Perhaps you should get a dog.
My favorite baseball, football and scientific observation quotes, and their authors:
Tim McCarver:
Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals was the luckiest pitcher he ever saw — when Gibson pitched, the other team never scored any runs!
Vince Lombardi:
“The harder we work, the luckier we get.”
and to paraphrase Louis Pasteur:
“Fortune favors the well=prepared.”
ONE of the greatest pitchers of all time (he did pitch very briefly in NY at the very end of his 24-year career:
“I’m probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.”
and
“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”
and, after pitching a ball to a forlorn and insecure rookie, who could not seem to hit major league pitching and was already asking his manager to send him back to the minors, here comes a pitch from this fellow, that the rookie whallops out of the park:
“He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I’ll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I’d only struck him out.”
about that pitch he said, “For the first 60 feet, it was a heck of a pitch.” (note to some readers who are not baseball cognoscenti: the distance between the pitchers mound and home plate is 60 feet, 6 inches)
another colorful sports figure said:
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?”
and
“I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up.”
AND
“Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.”
what unparalleled Negro League pitcher (very short stint in the major leagues, but much too late) was reputed to have said such gems as these:
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
and
“Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.”
and
“I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.”
and
“Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.”
what NY sports figure said, “Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.”
and
“Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.”
and
“He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team.”
Hint on: Who actually first said (wrote): “The race is not always to the swift nor the fight to the strong, but that’s the way to bet. “
and my favorite piece of advice from father to son:
who said, “A fool and his money are soon elected. ” and
“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance. “
and
“Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.”
and
“Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.”
import more boys from Poland. That’s what they did in my grandfather’s time.
no, he can be innocent. That’s just not what the court said.
not guilty is not the same as innocent.
what famous Jewish athlete said:
“In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don’t know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win – if they’re nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth and nice guys with no talent finish last.”
and
“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”
Big Hint: Yogi Berra said of him, after trying to hit against him in the 1963 World Series, “I can see how he won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
one point for APY.
yes, Napoleon Bonaparte was the wise warrior.
Netanyahu.
what famous warrior advised: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
who described a lie as “Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”
who said, “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
who said, “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
YES, it was Abba Eban on the Arab quote. Very good, little bear.
who said, “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”
he also famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Yes, and don’t mess around with customs or border security agents. They’re a lot better at their jobs than it appears.
Don’t carry packages for strangers or even acquaintances. I always offer to mail the packages that people ask me to carry, and that usually stops them from insisting that I carry the package.
What Israeli statesman first said, “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. “
Big hint: he also said, “If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. “
How about a paraphrase from Kohelet, that I think Raphael used the other day.
Who actually first said (wrote): The race is not always to the swift nor the fight to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.
Phineas T. Barnum?
happiest, that was Bill Clinton. Not such a stupid guy, after all.
Tjere was a hurricane Jose that fizzled.
The scent should not precede you into a room nor remain in the room after you’ve left.
Ayc – my screen name is my name followed by my initials. Since 1974 I uses -rsr- as my computer signature and moniker. When online sevices started in the 1990s, I couldn’t ise that, so I’ve used my current screen name since
Dogs make excellent and true friends.
And what if my wife is not my zivug? Should I be less happy with her? Should I divorce her and search for my zivug?
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I don’t recall all the details, but for me it went something like this: I met this nice girl whom I really liked and couldn’t stop tinking about. All of a sudden I found myself under a chuppah next to her, smashing a glass with my foot, and all of my friends and relatives were shouting, “mazal tov!”
She must be my zivug, because now I run into her all the time, even when I’m sitting quietly at home. I hope she is not stalking me, but I see her in my kitchen and in the hallways and outside the bathroom, and even in my backyard. Often I will wake up in the morning, and there she is.
Tomorrow will be our second anniversary.
I’m pretty sure that’s how I knew.
Perhaps I am looking in the wrong direction, but I presume Hashem knows what he is doing, and if disasters are indeed messages or tests, they are so for humankind.
To paraphrase Ed Koch, “how’m I doing?”
In a huge hurricane that would have killed hundreds or thousands only a few score years ago, only about 40 people died. A handful of Jews died, mostly while trying to save the lives of others. There was relatively little property damage, in comparison, due to improved building codes and methods. Storm prediction was splendid, so we all had days to prepare. People worked together to aid each other, and they heeded the advice of the very knowledgable emergency management authorities. All in all, suffering and inconvenience was minimized.
This is truly the result of humans continuing the work of creation and helping to repair the world.
Earlier this summer I saw thousands of people volunteer in the search for Leiby. Most were Jews, but there were oeople there of many different skin hues and backgrounds. The results were still disastrous, but I saw great hope in the way so many people pulled together in hope of averting a disaster.
Am I the only person who gets hope from these ‘potches’ and sees that if we are being tested, we have behaved admirably?
When I met my wife, she was shorter in height than my preference, but was longer in kindness and personality than I could have wished. Tomorrow will be our second anniversary and the only time height is ever an issue is when it comes to retrieviNg things from high shelves.
Come to my shul, we wIll greet you.
My mother brought welcoming gifts to evey new neighbor until the mid 1980’s when she started to get stares and feel unwelcome as new neighbors started to wonder what she was up to.
Time wounds all heels.
Just because my “thank you” is automatic does not mean that it is not sincere.
Thank you all for reading my post.
We are all Joseph.
There are other ways of saying thanks, too, that will have the same meaning to your parents.
Try: i am so glad you’re my parent; i am very lucky to be your child; I received the best parents possible.
Chein, it’s clearly a wedding crisis.
You were asking for it.
3am-4am EDT is available.
A squadful, more or less.