Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Comedy guy : I like your accent. Where you from? Tourist : Ohio. Comedy guy : You sound disappointed. Tourist : Have you ever been to Ohio? Comedy guy : Good point. --41st & Broadway Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-05-12
Dark Roasted Blend (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
#60 - Week of May 12, 2008 Secret Room Hideouts! - [fascinating] Embroidered Felt Typewriter and others - [art] - via The One Room Hotel - put it on any famous building - [design] Nazis on the Moon! , YouTube link - [super weird] Flower Girls (unique art from petals, scroll down) - [art] America's Largest Family - [interesting] Tornado Flips Cars, caught on tape - [weather] Volkswagen's economy car...
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Obnoxious Latino #1 : Man, that guy was such a faggot! With that mohawk and those gay-ass glasses. Obnoxious Latino #2 : Hey, I'm wearing the same glasses. [Silence.] --1 Train Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-05-12
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Flyer guy, after trying to give suit a flyer : Hey man, nice tie. Suit turns around : Thanks! Nice! [Looks flyer guy up and down.] Actually, you look like shit. --71st & Continental, Forest Hills Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-05-12
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Eight-year-old girl drinking margarita : My daddy taught me in kindergarten, if any boys treat me like s-h-i-t, kick them in the dick! [Five minutes later.] Eight-year-old girl : I'm gonna kill myself! --Mexican Restaurant near Union Square Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-05-11
The Common Room (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I gave my old boots to a friend a while back (you can read about that here ) and this is what she has done: My boots are now happy.
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Lead singer of The Stitch Ups : What's your name, sir? Audience member : Samantha. Lead singer of The Stitch Ups : Holy shit! --Blender Theater, Gramercy Overheard by: we thought she was a dude, too... Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-05-11
johnsadowski.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Tuffy Tooth record Originally uploaded by grickily . Watch out for Tuffy Tooth!
jo(e)'s page (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
More than 5,000 students graduated from Snowstorm University this weekend. The class of 2008 included Beautiful Smart Wonderful Daughter, who graduated with honors and who earned a degree in English, with a minor in Psychology, and a degree in Magazine Journalism. The School of Public Communications gave her an award for being "an outstanding student who has exemplified strong, sensitive writing and...
Daf notes (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The Gemora ( Daf Yomi : Nazir 49) answers: Both words are necessary. For if the Torah would have only written for his father (that the nazir may not become tamei to), we would have thought that it is only the father that he cannot become tamei to for there is merely a presumption of paternity (for perhaps his mother committed adultery), but regarding his mother, whom we know gave birth to him, he could...
Daf notes (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
It is evident from the Rambam in Hilchos Nezirus (7:12) that the reason that a nazir may become tamei to a meis mitzvah is because of the mitzvah of burial. However, from Tosfos, it would seem that there is a different reason. Tosfos writes that it is permitted for the nazir to move the corpse from the sun to the shade. This would indicate that the allowance for the nazir to become tamei is not on...
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Shadow Unit Episode 1x07, "Overkill," is live .
Daf notes (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The Mishna ( Daf Yomi : Nazir Daf 47) states: A Kohen Gadol and nazir cannot become tamei to their relatives, but they can become tamei to a meis mitzvah. If they were traveling together and they happened across a meis mitzvah, (who should become tamei)? Rabbi Eliezer says: The Kohen Gadol should become tamei and not the nazir. The Chachamim say: The nazir should become tamei instead of even an ordinary...
Bobo Blogger (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Hey ya'll meet Harley-girl. Our new puppy. We met her and couldn't leave her at the beastly place she was living, so she came home with me. If I could have, I would have brought all the puppies home. The...
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Woman #1 : So our department keeps talking about how much they are trying to promote diversity and understanding of others, but get this, two weeks ago they put up garlands over the door! Like, that is so disrespectful to other religions! It gets better though, the next day they put up a plug-in menorah --somebody must have complained. Woman #2 : Oh... Woman #1 : You're not going to believe this though,...
