'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
A commercial in which cats have opposable thumbs: [link]
Is it now that I confess that I've never seen Angry Birds? I mean, I know what it is in concept, but I've never actually seen the game.
But how will the Angry Birds get revenge against the pigs who stole their eggs if you don't play the game?
Um, what?
Noah showed me Angry Birds, I think. I don't get it.
Speaking of Fox, when was the last time we in the US have had a major news media outlet that constantly makes up the news in order to further a partisan agenda? Was it the yellow journalism of the 1890s?
Certainly into the 30s. Back then there were so many newspapers that they covered the entire political spectrum. It wasn't just one or two papers per city. I think NYC had nine different dailies at one point.
Because in Germany you can offset charitable donations against tax?
(I've no idea if that was the case in the 1860s, though).
I seriously doubt that Germany in the 1860s (or, well, I guess it was Prussia then) gave tax breaks for contributions to Jewish community charities.
I can see someone somewhere keeping a list of this stuff, but I can't figure out how it would make it into a published book. And this had to be an expensive book to print -- just about every paragraph has one or two words in Hebrew, usually "May his memory be a blessing" after a mention of someone who had died, so they had to have a printing press and a printer who could deal with that. I can't read it well enough to figure out what the rest of the book is -- it's something like 18 volumes, so it can't just be a list of donations, but I can't figure out much beyond that.
It could be an archive of a group of charities, some people get inspired to publish the oddest things--even before e-publishing! It's like all the books that are publishes with the passenger lists of ships that landed in Colonial America.
If you think you have the most boring meeting, you're wrong. I do. Right now.
If you think you have the most boring meeting, you're wrong. I do. Right now.
Yeah, no. I don't buy it.
Yeah, no. I don't buy it.
Trade you. I'll give you the dial in information for next week. I will so verily verily win this one.