Goq: how do you know a post is immature until you’ve read it? See–this looked ok until now. Nyah, nyah! 🙂

Well, people are always talking about getting children to read and improving their writing skills, so really how can we complain when posting involves both?

Truthfully, though, we don’t let our kids use the computer, even though they would probably understand it much better than I do and they would write more coherently, too.

gefen: but yummycupcake and prettyinpink…?

B”H may you see only nachas!

You funnee, BSD.

Yes, i especially like that i got capital letters.

Many thanks, whoever changed the title, for your prompt attention to this pressing issue!

I don’t care about clearing my profile (although I prefer a 3/4 view) but could someone please correct the title of this thread? “You” instead of “your” is one of the most common and most annoying typos so PLEASE FIX IT. OH, THE HORROR!

Take a look at Chapter Nine: A Policy of Honesty, in “The Story of the Chofetz Chaim” esp. p.100-103, where it discusses how the Chofetz Chaim made a continual kiddush Hashem by always accurately determining the postage on his sefarim before sending them to the post office.

Also, imagine if you or your child or friend or relative had a store, and something like this happened, and someone who didn’t know you had a connection to this particular store, boasted to you about how they had lucked out there because the owner/cashier made such a mistake.

Just because this cashier was not grateful at that moment doesn’t mean it didn’t occur to her later that her job could have been on the line and you saved it. Or, maybe she doesn’t like her job and couldn’t care less if the owner gets ripped off and she gets fired.

And, it’s not true that no one would ever have known: I was once undercharged–the price ticket was wrong–at a small, local store where I had never shopped before, and they traced me and called me up demanding i pay the full price of the item, because otherwise it would come out of the poor clerk’s pocket.

Yeah, I also switched, and may have to take drastic measure to stop. Checking up on the latest comments takes up too much time! After I got my subtitle,coffee addict congratulated me with, “Welcome to the dark side.” Funny, but a little too true.

Now, getzel’s subtitle really fits! A round of applause, for getzel and for the titling mod.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

YOU CAN ALL TAKE YOUR SEATS NOW!

How come nobody asks the really important questions, the questions that will easily, almost invariably, determine a couple’s compatibility, based on the formula that if the boy likes a, the perfect girl for him prefers b:

Does she/he a)like going to the country for the summer, or would s/he prefer b)to stay in the city?

Does s/he like to a)sleep with the window open or b)closed (a/c on or off)?

Would he like a)to eat noodles and cheese for every meal? Does she like b)to cook a different 6 course meal every weeknight and have fleishiks every other night?

Does she like have 47 different salads on the Shabbos table, while he is a vegetarian–he loves vegetable too much to eat them?

It’s not that opposites attract, it’s more Hashem’s way of balancing people out (IMHO).

Obviously, they are for posting threads like this.

[If your fone doesnt ring, it’s me.

Please explain.]

It’s part of a line from an old song about a break-up, like, if she doesn’t hear her phone ringing anymore it’s because he’s not calling anymore. Ie, it’s me NOT CALLING.

What we rip, we sew.

Every name means something. Ursula is the feminine form of the Latin word for “bear” (Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, the Bear constellations). There is currently in the plaza of the Seagram Building a sculpture of a giant teddy bear leaning against a lamp, built by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, whose first name means bear. I have met plenty of Dov Bers and Berishes, and a few women named Doba, but no women named Bera.

It is not my given name but i like it (although i like my real name better).

Cucumber: If you rejoin the member ranks, then your subtitle will perforce be “remembered”. As BSD’s is, a conundrum. (Since a proud member should not have any other subtitle, does his subtitle mean he is not proud to be a member?)

Oh, goodness! Look! My very own subtitle! Gee, thanks, guys! Thanks, mystery moderator! I think I’ll go and have myself a happy little cry now.

Have a great Shabbos, everyone!

Thank you for your support, BSD and the mention, coffee addict. I had considered going over to the other subtitle threads, in hopes that increasing my screen presence would increase my chances, but NO–(stiffening my quivering upper lip) I will not beg. I may not have a subtitle, but I do have my dignity!

Mazal tov to all of you! May you be zoche to make many more successful shidduchim and may all of them build bnbYs, etc. etc.

That would be my definitive subtitle, true.

or, to be consistent, Mama Bearish.

You know why there are only pareve and fleishik korbanos? Because the men couldn’t be trusted to maintain two separate mizbeyachs. (mizbeychos?)

BSD: they got you, too?! 🙁

Thanks, nottelling. I have to sign out now and get to work on my chores, but remember there are many posters thinking nicely of you out here!

Enjoy the day, all.

If you are seriously seeking advice on spiritual atonement, shouldn’t you be discussing this with your spiritual advisor?

Can you suggest a chessed that an 8 year old boy can do (that does not involve visiting hospitals or nursing homes)? Thanks. Tizku l’mitzvos.

Hi. Thank you for starting this thread. Are we here to air our opinions or are we here to be noticed and we hope, liked? Both.

You can never judge how your posts will be taken, though, and how you will be judged by them. Once i posted something i thought was a pareve, somewhat amusing reflection of my feelings, and it was misinterpreted as a not-very-subtle attack on a segment of our community. If you were one of those insulted, I still sincerely apologize, but that reaction stunned me. It was so far from my intention. I felt like throwing up when i read the answering posts and my fingers were shaking so much when i answered they typed every letter three times.

Always here, i think of you fondly every time i see your sn because you were sympathetic to me.

So i cut down on my posts and try to be even more pareve. Except for limericks. There if anyone insults my rhyme, i can just post a better one in return. Try it! 🙂

Actually, the custom of wearing a white dress became popular after the wedding of an English queen, Victoria maybe. It became secular custom and was adopted by the Jews too. But a bride always wore a particularly nice dress, no, to set her apart from the rest of the women there? Or at least, she wore her best dress to start off married life on a nice note.

Maybe the Ashkenazim should adopt the Yemenite wedding attire.

Which came first, Hebrew or Latin? They took everything, even our words.

There’s an interesting dictionary on this topic: The Word – The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Roots of the English Language – by Isaac Mozeson. For example, Mr. Mozeson gives the root of magazine, the French word for store and used in English as storage of bullets in a gun, as the Hebrew “machsan.”

Emma Lazarus, of Portuguese descent. Related on her mother’s side to Benjamin Cardozo.

We also had many guests at our simcha who had never before attended a frum wedding. Their consensus was that a secular wedding is more “romantic” but a frum wedding was more fun! And, as many have said, interesting from a cultural standpoint. (I didn’t do quite enough research on our hall and didn’t realize when they said an outdoor chuppah, they meant out on the street in front of the hall, near the parked school buses. Out went walking down the aisle, in came tripping down the steps. But, it was fun.)

Mazal tov, and enjoy the wedding and your life afterward! may you build a bayis ne’eman b’Yisroel!