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One cat, about 12 years old. We had to put our first cat down in 2013. He got very sick, very quickly.
The answer is 16. It has always been 16 and will continue to be 16.
@Zaphod,
Next time you fly, you just might consider taking a few packets of peanuts with you. Don’t wait until the flight attendants bring them around. You never know when you may need that extra protein. Oh, and DON’T PANIC! Air travel is mostly harmless.
Zaphod, that’s because you’re not on an airplane. You’re on a Vogon ship. Seek out the Dentrassi. They may be able to provide a kosher meal while you’re listening to Vogon poetry.
2008, second Sefer. As I lifted, my right knee collapsed (had ACL reconstruction in 2000). Two guys caught me and another two caught the Sefer. I was on the table for surgery on the knee the week later. We thought I might need another ACL reconstruction, but it turned out to be “just” a meniscal tear.
Sam’s 76 – Tried this over the weekend. OUTSTANDING
Blue Moon Belgian Wheat
Sam Adams Summer Ale“A man doesn’t know what true happiness is until he’s married. And then it’s too late.”
“A man isn’t complete until he’s married. Then, he’s FINISHED.”
Why is healthcare so much more expensive in the US than elsewhere?
1. The US does most of the R&D on new drugs and medical equipment.
2. Many people think that doctors can do anything. When there is a patient outcome that is less than perfect, doctors, nurses, technicians, hospitals and equipment manufacturers are sued. Malpractice insurance premiums go up. Those costs are passed on. Doctors practice defensive medicine, ordering as many tests as possible, just to cover themselves.
Nothing was done about tort reform during the Obamacare process. Time to get rid of the law and start again.
Yep, it’s an error. Somehow, somewhere, the web page can’t establish a connection with some back-end database. Looks like it works if you just refresh the page.
I always thought Vulcans and Jews had so many things in common. “Spock, son of Sarek” is just “Spock ben Sarek,” no?
And Mrs. Zen makes a braised cabbage dish with onions and carrots. Had it as part of Shabbos dinner last week. Soooo delicious.
Twisted, yep. Can’t stand mice and bugs. But I used to be an EMT and that type of blood and gore bothered me.
This story comes from 1996. I left on my first business trip the weekend of the Blizzard of 1996 – actually just got off the ground that Sunday AM, but it was the first time my wife, kids and I had ever been away from each other like that.
So my wife asks her younger sister if she wants to stay with her and the kiddies until I return on Wednesday and she does. During the time she’s there, my wife notices a smell in our living room and thinks, “Gee, did my sister not take a shower. Does she smell that bad?” But then she does take a shower and the smell is still there.
I get off the plane on Wednesday, call home and am told, by the wife, that she thinks there’s a dead mouse in the living room; we had been having mouse problems in our apartment. I get home and start searching, finally finding the dead critter under our love seat. I promptly run into the bathroom and vomit. Now, I’m thinking, what to do, so I call my father-in-law, who tells me I should just take some paper towels or newspapers, pick it up and throw it out. I ask him if he’ll come over and do it (mind you, there’s 25+ inches of snow still on the ground); he says no.
Brilliant me, I get out the Kenmore and vacuum the little dead guy up. The sound of the mouse going up into the canister prompts me to run to the bathroom and vomit again. How got the vacuum cleaner bag out to the garbage, I don’t remember, but we still talk about the whole incident to this day.
“Fleischie”
Ok, I think I’ve said that I am a Conservative Jew. Have been all my life, but have become more observant as I have gotten older and wiser.
I have NEVER seen a Conservative shul (and I have been to many) celebrate Havdalah on Shabbat morning.
The “triennial” is a concept that I think is ridiculous. Essentially, each Sedrah is broken up into three parts and read over the period of three Shabbatot. So, it takes three years to read the entire Sefer Torah. The “wisdom” behind this is that reading only one-third of the Sedrah will make services faster. To me, that’s baloney. I’ve been to Orthodox Shabbat services both here and in E”Y, and they’re much quicker than at any Conservative shuls I’ve been to.
We’ve had a SodaStream for over 5 years. Just had to replace the original. If you go through A LOT of seltzer, make sure you get a machine that can handle the 130L CO2 canisters.
Jackie Mason’s brother, Rabbi Maza, performed my nephew’s bris. It was a show; not a pleasant experience at all, but not my choice. All three of his brothers were/are Rabbonim.
And, David Bar-Magen, there’s an organization called Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. They are located at 80 Maiden Lane in Manhattan. They can help with emergency rent/heat/food expenses as well as job seeking and job training skills.
There is a Masbia on Coney Island Avenue between J and K. They serve ANYONE and the place looks like a restaurant.
Zahavasdad, not to nitpick, but Motrin is actually ibuprofin.
A la bagel: lox, capers and onion. Not really sure about cream cheese on a latke.
Rebdoniel: Latkes topped with Russian or 1000 Island Dressing, Sauerkraut, and Melted Swiss Cheese. OH…methinks I need to try this.
If y = f(n) where n = -? and f = f(n+1) is where it is,
then I postulate that
Make sense?
Everything bagel with cream cheese, lox and a big hunk of Vidalia onion. The bagel, however, needs to be fresh and warm, not hot, because I don’t like melted cream cheese.
Met Council (80 Maiden Ln in Manhattan) has a Career Services unit that helps people write resumes. Call them.
A priest had mice in his church. He didn’t know what to do! So he went to his friend the Rabbi who he know had mice problems earlier but no longer did. The priest asked, “Rabbi how did you get rid of the mice and make sure that they wouldn’t come back?” The Rabbi answered, “I Bar Mitzvahed them.”
Two possibilities, but I don’t know the correct proportions:
Corn salad…sour pickles chopped, corn, red pepper chopped, dill and mayo to taste.
Radish salad…radishes, scallions, dill and mayo to taste.
ONLY kosher cheeses.
You can try the JCH on Bay Parkway and 78th Street or the Kings Bay “Y” on Nostrand Avenue and Avenue V. They both have gender-separated swimming. East Midwood Jewish Center (Ocean Avenue, between Avenues K and L) has a pool and may also have gender-separated swimming.
“Ruint”?
I spent the first ten years of my career, 1986-1995, at 1 WTC. I started on the 71st floor and was on the 31st floor during the 1993 bombing.
I woke up in the middle of the night 9/10 – 9/11/2001, with a terrible stomach ache and was annoyed because I needed to get up early to be in my office in Queens by 7:30 AM and this was disturbing my sleep. It was my first day of classes for that semester of grad school at Brooklyn College, so I had to leave early to get back to Brooklyn.
We had a morning conference call every day at 9:00. At 8:50, my boss called me from lower Manhattan – he and some of the other senior staff were there for a meeting – and told me that someone had flown an airplane into the Trade Center. We held a moment of silence at our morning meeting, and when we got out, the second plane hit. We locked our office down and went into crisis mode
From my eight years (okay, maybe 7) at the Young Israel of Bedford Bay – and some 30 years later, I remember this (forgive me Rabbi Pollack):
Fly paper, fly paper ooey, gooey goo.
Fly paper, fly paper always sticks to you.
A man was standing by the sewer
And by the sewer he died.
They didn’t know what to call it,
So the called it “sewer-cide”.
Fly paper, fly paper ooey, gooey goo.
Fly paper, fly paper always sticks to you.
A man was standing by his house,
And by his house he died.
They didn’t know what to call it,
So the called it “home-i-cide”.
Fly paper, fly paper ooey, gooey goo.
Fly paper, fly paper always sticks to you.
I woke up in the morning and looked upon the wall,
The roaches and the bedbugs were playing a game of ball.
The score was six to nothing, the roaches were ahead.
The bedbugs hit a grand-slam that knocked me out of bed.
Fly paper, fly paper ooey, gooey goo.
Fly paper, fly paper always sticks to you.
A man was standing by the tracks
And didn’t see the train.
Yisgadal v’yisgadach sh’mei rabah, amen.
Hey, fly paper, fly paper ooey, gooey goo.
Fly paper, fly paper always sticks to you.
PBA, this is a shiddach that will result in very smart children. It’s like math…when one multiples a negative number by a negative number, the product is a positive number. Similarly, if your friend and the girl are truly dumb, the kids will be smart. AND the dumber the friend and the girl are, the smarter the kids will be.
There’s nothing to ask anybody about here. It’s a simple case of United States copyright law. You are permitted an “archival backup” of your CD, which can be used at a later time if your original is damaged. Unless the CD is in the public domain, you MAY NOT copy it to give to someone else. That is theft and violation of copyright law.
Your a US citizen, yes? Have you tried contacting the United States embassy to find out?
IMHO, nothing more beautiful than Adon Olam sung to the tune of Yerushalyim Shel Zahav.
With respect to checked bags accompanying the individual:
If the airline is unable to account for the passenger(s), that is a security violation. HOWEVER, if you are “bumped” from a flight and your luggage is already on board, it is possible that the luggage will arrive at the destination ahead of you.
How about this:
Mazel tov to the chosson and kallah! Just a few pieces of wisdom that were told to me over the years:
First, a man is not complete until he is married. Then, he’s FINISHED!
Second, a man does not know true happiness until he is married. And then, it’s too late!
AinOhd, I believe it was George Carlin.
So a rabbi, a priest and a minister are discussing how they took care of the mouse problem in their respective houses of worship.
The priest says, “I had a crew come in and seal all of the holes with steel wool and plaster. The mice never came back to the church.”
The minister says, “I had a crew come in and move all of the food to places where the mice can’t smell it. They never came back to the church.”
The rabbi says, “I just Bar Mitzvahed all of the mice. They never came back to the shul.”
Woman Outside…there’s a -1 in there, so it’s 14.
Sam, for other’s edification:
P = Parens
E = Exponents
M = Multiplication
D = Division
A = Addition
S = Subtraction
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 x 0 =
14.
Using order of operations, you’d multiply the last 1 x 0 first, resulting in 0, so you’d have:
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 = 14.
If, however, the equation was:
(1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1) x 0 =
The result is 0, as you would perform the operations in parens FIRST and multiply that result by 0, giving you the result that Think First came up with but incorrectly in this instance.
Trying to convince the wife to go as a molecule of NaCl and a Duracell.
Metrodriver, THAT is greatly appreciated – that you’ll go around the block.
I can understand parents not wanting their kids waiting outside in the cold and rain; I was in that place at one point. But, the school bus didn’t stop right in front of our building. It stopped a block away, so I always made sure we were on time.
Considering the traffic in BP because of the frequent stops school busses make and parents not having their kids out in time, this would be a great idea. After 30 seconds, my impatience kicks in and I start leaning on the horn. Yeah, that’s me.
Am Yisrael Chai
The day brought back memories of 1992 bombing, because I worked at the WTC from 1986 to 1995.
I woke up that morning around 6:00 in order to get into work early. I was starting a new semester of graduate school that day. But earlier in the night, I had terrible stomach problems (almost a premonition) that had me in the bathroom for about an hour at around 3:00 AM. I remember being annoyed that I was stuck in the bathroom for so long when I had to be up so early.
I worked in Queens in 2001. Some of our senior staff were at a meeting at a hospital in lower Manhattan and my boss called me to tell me that, “Some idiot had flown his airplane into the Trade Center.” We thought it was an accident, so we settled into our 9:00 daily meeting and started that meeting with a moment of silence. As soon as we came out of the meeting, the second plane hit. It was chaos in my office. But, as the senior manager in Queens that day and a former EMT, I had to take control of the situation.
My wife worked in Manhattan at the time, but just north of 14th Street. She called me to tell me that she was okay, but that her express bus had come out of the tunnel just as the first plane hit and she saw the debris falling. She told me I should get home and get the kids, who were in school. I replied that I had a crisis on my hands in the office that I needed to handle and that school was probably the safest place for the kids to be.
I remember taking the train home that night and seeing the plume of smoke coming up from lower Manhattan as the F train rounded the bend before Smith & 9th Street. “My” buildings were gone.
No joke at all, Toi. That’s what we do in a Conservative shul. But, I was at an Orthodox shul in EY over the summer and they did the same thing.
When we say, “V’zot haTorah….” we are saying, “And this is the Torah….” We raise the pinky to emphasize “This” as we point to the Sefer Torah. We USUALLY point at things with our pointer finger, but that’s considered rude (ever hear, “It’s rude to point!!”), so we use our pinky instead.