Ha HA! I can totally get USAir miles for my Lufthansa flights! Good job keeping all of my boarding passes, which I need to mail them.
I didn't create the troll. I didn't date the troll. In fact I hate the troll. I helped deflate the troll-- All done.
Willow ,'Potential'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jun 28, 2010 3:16:45 pm PDT #9434 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
amych - Jun 28, 2010 3:16:51 pm PDT #9435 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Well, who else has the wisdom and leadership to stop oppressing all those people who weren't fit to govern themselves anyway?
Jesse - Jun 28, 2010 3:18:08 pm PDT #9436 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In the words of a straight male WASP college classmate of mine, possibly in a class called Ethnicity, but definitely in some pinko commie Liberal Arts class: "It was my people who made this country great!" He almost got killed right on the spot.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2010 3:18:08 pm PDT #9437 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
ION, I found a caterpillar in the caldo verde tonight that I'd made with the remaining CSA greens for this week. I love that our farmer doesn't spray anything on his crops, but OTOH, pesticides do tend to get rid of, um, pests.
(And I'm sure it was a perfectly non-poisonous and edible caterpillar and was probably an indication that these greens were grown in a healthy sustainable environment blah blah bugs-are-good-for-the-earth-cakes. But I still did not want to eat it.)
Hil R. - Jun 28, 2010 3:21:45 pm PDT #9438 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm still trying to figure out what that part at the end about Ralph Lauren means. The clothes that are mostly associated with the Ivy League are mostly designed by Jewish designers, and therefore ... what?
Hil R. - Jun 28, 2010 3:27:31 pm PDT #9439 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The author of that op-ed has a somewhat "interesting" history with Judaism. He went to the Maimonedes School in Brookline, outside Boston, which is a Modern Orthodox school that puts a lot of emphasis on the interaction between traditional Jewish law and modern life. (One of my cousins went there from kindergarten through middle school.) Anyway, he went to his high school reunion with his non-Jewish fiancee. When a photo of this reunion was published in the school bulletin, he and his fiancee were not in it. (There seems to be some dispute about exactly how much of the picture was cropped out.) He took this and made it into a 10-page article in the NY Times Magazine about how Modern Orthodoxy can't really survive in the modern world.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2010 3:29:23 pm PDT #9440 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The clothes that are mostly associated with the Ivy League are mostly designed by Jewish designers, and therefore ... what?
It's not racism if you like their race. Or, you know, if you like having members of that minority ethnicity make your clothes.
Hil R. - Jun 28, 2010 3:34:16 pm PDT #9441 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Here's the article about Modern Orthodoxy, if anyone's interested. [link]
smonster - Jun 28, 2010 3:34:54 pm PDT #9442 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Crossing everything for you, ita!
And happy birthday, Hec!
DavidS - Jun 28, 2010 3:36:23 pm PDT #9443 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And happy birthday, Hec!
Thank you! I am now older than mummy dirt.