wanderingchana

How about “YWN CR Poster of the Week” on the Poster of the Week’s subtitle?

I’d be shocked if their sales didn’t plummet (not like they’d admit it). This issue was just beyond the pale.

Chuck Norris’ wife eats cholent Friday night and *Chuck Norris* doesn’t notice.

Isn’t there a yeshiva in Scranton? FYI, You’re in the Appalachians. Middle, middle America is 1000 miles or so from you.

Antidisestablishmentarianism

I got a 100+ point word once, and I wasn’t cheating. (How do you cheat?). Is a dictionary against the rules?

teh = the

IMYOs= In My Yiddishe Opinions

“I pushed him over the edge by being mad and angry at him.”

You were mad and angry at him for abusing the kids, right? But that’s a normal response to someone abusing your kids!!

Don’t blame the victim (yourself)… at this point you are the only one who can protect your children. Do it for both them and yourself…

I’m horrified to read the things he’s done. He has a personality disorder if he’s so controlling he won’t “let” you take Zoloft!! Have you called Shalom Task Force yet? Please…

What about court reporting?

Great day to drive into/out of/across the city!

IMHO, women dress for other women. They are trying to impress their friends/teachers/shadchanim/future MIL & family. Shouldn’t rebbetzins/morahs(/mothers) be setting the example?

The only men who should be paying attention anyhow are those on a date, and (dare I say?) as long as she’s not a complete slob, he should be paying more attention to her middos anyhow.

By the time a father has sons in shidduchim, he/the boy’s rabbeim (I’m sure have been)/should have been modeling good middos for years, or at least much sooner than two weeks before he comes out of the freezer. I could be in the minority, but I think it’s less important for my son to know how to schect a cow (unless he wants to be a shochet) than for him to know how not to eat like one.

I also agree, MP. I took a couple weeks off because the name-calling etc. was really grating on my nerves. I don’t want to leave for good either, but I need to keep myself from getting sucked into the drama. It’s a shame that it’s allowed here at all.

There is the possibility that YW is letting this stuff through precisely because it attracts attention/generates traffic. Advertisers must not mind, even if it’s loshon hora that is bringing them hits…

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LOL… I used to think the same about myself. (I was posting a lot more then.) I gladly pass the torch on to you!

bekitzur –

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miritchka: I think a harp would be awesome. We just have to make sure the door stays closed so you don’t have to keep tuning it.

Drink, drink, drink. I passed several once after surgery. With the worst one it was like passing knives. Then I went to the ER and found out I had a UTI. Ugh…

Maybe part of his struggle has been with being associated with the genre? Maybe this is what he felt he had to do in order to break free from it and start over, maybe exploring another kind of music? Why can’t we just wait and see where he goes with this?

The clarinet is only a higher pitched somewhat skweaky sound when the high notes are played (kind of like a soprano sax). The clarinet’s lower notes are rich and sonorous, and the bass clarinet is a warm, unassuming instrument (very suitable for bnei Torah, LOL).

The clarinet is much more versatile (as was mentioned) – klezmer, orchestral, jazz, wind band, woodwind quintet…

There aren’t many orchestral pieces written with sax parts, for example Night on Bald Mountain and Lt. Kije Suite, which are very nice pieces, but the clarinet repertoire is much richer. And no, I don’t play clarinet, or sax.

I am reminded of my kids’ preschool mantra:

“You get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit”

Always runs… when these things happen, I try to remind myself: B”H they’re normal!!

That doesn’t make it easier on a day-to-day basis, though. The put-together moms probably have hours of help every week. (And don’t forget, if their kids are strapped into the stroller, they’re not dumping things on the kitchen floor, for the moment at least). My house… forget it.

When my kids were little, I had child-proof locks on all cabinets and window guards on the second floor windows (google Guardian Angel Window Guard). But that doesn’t mean they didn’t get into things.

Once a friend had something urgent and I took her two kids, my daughter’s age (2ish) and 4 months old. The 4 mo was fussy and I was trying to entertain her at the piano. Suddenly I realized the older girls were awfully quiet. They were quietly and happily sitting on the hardwood kitchen floor, smearing themselves, each other and the floor with Desitin. The hardwood floor had cracks that took a toothbrush to clean the Desitin out of. 🙂

Another time I was in the basement checking laundry. Suddenly I heard the thump-thump-thump-thump-thump of someone running from the kitchen to their room. Someone knew they were in trouble. I went up to the kitchen to find the eggs I had set out to make brownies, smashed on the (again, hardwood) floor. They look like balls, right? And when the first one doesn’t bounce, you’d want to see if the other one would, right?

Time to get out the tootbrush again…

I suspect Jothar, in the Coffee Room, with a keyboard 🙂

Aries… Wow. This is what is so frustrating to me – this is the first time I have seen real suggestions of concrete steps that can be taken, that are realistic and implementable.

You are an asset to your profession and to Klal Yisrael. May Hashem allow us all to see the fruit of your efforts.