Email of the day from my friend Kevin H:

I just bought a new storage shed for the backyard. I'm looking over the instructions. It says: "In the event of severe weather, please disassemble and store in a secure location."

YAY! Congratulations and best wishes to GC and DW!

Hey vw, any chance you have a long lost twin living in the Denver area? I met a gal at Back to School Night who looks just like you, dresses like you, talks like you, and we hit it off great. Though now I realize I never got her name. Drat.

I'm still boggling at the likeness. Freaky. Cool, but freaky.

Ah, not that I know of. Freaky is right.

I just bought a new storage shed for the backyard. I'm looking over the instructions. It says: "In the event of severe weather, please disassemble and store in a secure location."

Bwah!

I think saying "congratulations" to a woman implies that she was lucky to find someone to marry her. Possibly Victorian in origin--congratulating the man but best wishes to the woman sounds Guilded Agish to me.

Is it considered rude for someone non-Jewish to say "Mazel Tov?"

Wooo! GC+DW! Live Long ad prosper together.

Is it considered rude for someone non-Jewish to say "Mazel Tov?"

"Huzzah! They is hitched!" maybe?

>For WindSparrow

Mmm, thanks, Barb.

Is it considered rude for someone non-Jewish to say "Mazel Tov?"

Definitely not rude. The worst reaction you'd get might be a slight eyeroll, depending on context.

When one of my friends got married last year, I overheard my father say "Good luck" to the groom, and I thought it was kind of insulting to the bride, but my mom told me that it's considered appropriate to say "congratulations" to the bride and "good luck" to the groom.

I can't say better than Scrappy,

Hooray for Glambride and her Girlfriendwife!

But I'll add my Mazel tov! and Felicitations.

I use Mazel tov, the same way I use mahalo, yatahey, machs nichts, didi mao, or namaste. I suppose a case could be easily made that I'm an unscrupulous indiscriminate irreverent appropriator and probably a bad person besides. I do apologize if I offend.

Gnome comes home: [link]

Woohoo! I think woohoo is terribly appropriate in a Buffista context. How about that? :)

I was all set to go downtown and shop for a dress to wear to a wedding this weekend. Friend from high school. Haven't seen her in a few years, haven't met the fiance, wanna look good. Plus they're both doctors, I figure the other guests might look nice, right?

Except first I get a late start. And then I remember I need to pick up my prescriptions, which I didn't do yesterday. And then because of the late start, I decide I should get some lunch. And then I'm halfway to downtown, so I might as well walk, rather than take the bus. And then I stop at the bookstore, and realize that one of my favorite authors has a new book out. And then suddenly it's three hours later, and I have to leave to meet my friend for dinner. And no shopping has occurred. But, um, I did read two and 3/4ths books. Oops?

Woo! MARRIED!

HOMG.

Four quarts of peaches put up tonight (between 5-7 peaches per quart jar).

Only, umm. Around 30lbs left? HOW CAN THAT MANY PEACHES MAKE THAT LITTLE DENT???