Famous Quotes . . .

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blunthead

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It'd make a nice smartphone app.

Not to side track but I caught a news glimpse of a vigil a few weeks ago and there was a guy holding up his cellphone with the display of a burning candle and I thought that was so disrespectful. I've been to vigils and there are always extras candles. I wanted to reach through the TV and bitch-slap, him.
 

blunthead

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It'd make a nice smartphone app.

Not to side track but I caught a news glimpse of a vigil a few weeks ago and there was a guy holding up his cellphone with the display of a burning candle and I thought that was so disrespectful. I've been to vigils and there are always extras candles. I wanted to reach through the TV and bitch-slap, him.
But phones are cool, see?
 

rudiroo

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"Better pain in your heart than shame on your face."
~Jewish saying
Great quote - hope you don't mind me mentioning that it's actually a Yiddish quote (Besser a vaitik in harts aider a charpeh in ponem). 'Better a pain in your heart than shame before men'
Yiddish was used by millions of of Jews in Central & Eastern Europe before the Holocaust - it's part German, part Hebrew and part who-knows.
There were Yiddish newspapers and Yiddish theatre.
But, the Nazis wiped out most of the Yiddish speakers and their culture.

If you've ever said 'bagel', 'nosh' or 'kosher', congratulations, you're speaking Yiddish!
Sorry about the language lesson but I love Yiddish & I want to keep it alive:haha:
 

blunthead

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Great quote - hope you don't mind me mentioning that it's actually a Yiddish quote (Besser a vaitik in harts aider a charpeh in ponem). 'Better a pain in your heart than shame before men'
Yiddish was used by millions of of Jews in Central & Eastern Europe before the Holocaust - it's part German, part Hebrew and part who-knows.
There were Yiddish newspapers and Yiddish theatre.
But, the Nazis wiped out most of the Yiddish speakers and their culture.

If you've ever said 'bagel', 'nosh' or 'kosher', congratulations, you're speaking Yiddish!
Sorry about the language lesson but I love Yiddish & I want to keep it alive:haha:
No apologies, please! I love it!