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About to close down and go to bed 'early' for a change when I saw this thread - so I'm just taking a moment to say that I'm here to stay - hope that's okay with y'all (that's said in southern Hebrew)! It'll take me a few more days  to read through more threads and get used to some of the ideas and 'humor'  I see you all like to share... but, as I said when I joined this board, I like what I read and am happy to be here! Oh - WORDS - and I'll try to spend a bit more time thinking about those (uh... in English - unless anyone wants to learn more Hebrew  ) instead of just replying to what I read or whatever... And - just one more word about my joining this board - already, in only a few days of being on it, I've discovered such a relief from the 'situation' (that's what we call it) around me. From listening to the shooting and shelling which happens nightly only a few kilometres away from me, for a little while anyway, I can escape into this board and even relax a bit!Thanks for a good time and for helping to keep me sane during this insane time! Lila TovShoshannah
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Shoshannah--
May God in His infinite wisdom keep you safe.
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>I can escape into this board and even relax a bit!
It is fascinating that a conversation with strangers can have an impact on our everyday lives in the crazy, sad worlds that we sometimes inhabit. AnnaStrophic mentioned in the early days something about "Strangers in Paradise", I'm glad that our petty jibes, puns (even Ted's) and tortuous attempts to unravel the world of language provide a welcome distraction. It is almost the least that we could do!
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Shoshannah, [nod-to-Jackie-and-Jo] I think what you posted just now would be apt for the Happy Birthday thread on March 15. Shalom. P.S. "Southern Hebrew" = Sfardi? 
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May God in His infinite wisdom keep you safe.
Jackie - thanks. HE does - Baruch HaShem (Blessings on The Name).
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AnnaStrophic
"Southern Hebrew" = Sfardi?
AnnaStropic - that was an interesting guess - actually, I'm originally from North Carolina (sometimes pronounced Nawth Care-liiiiiiiina), so when I speak Hebrew, I obviously don't sound like I'm from Israel - thus, I usually follow up whatever I say with the comment that I speak "southern Hebrew" (btw - I say the same about the two words of Russian I know ).
Keep those cards and letters a'comin' - did y'all hear yet that we had another bomb attack this morning - in Netanya (north of Tel Aviv on the coast) - one guy, tried to get on a city bus, was denied, blew himself up - two Israelis died at the scene, one more (so far) on the operating table - one more in critical condition in hospital and about 55+ wounded. AND LIFE (such as it is) GOES ON...
So - you can see why I NEED this board! Thanks to you all for your ongoing WORDS!
Shoshannah
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While not trying to laugh at the bombing in London or the fact that people were hurt, the article that jmh's link brought up made me smile. For absolute meaningless quotes in reporting, it has to be a masterpiece of stating the obvious. Consider this: Mr Fry said: "We have been predicting, since Christmas, that the mainland, and London in particular, were to be subject to terrorist attacks. This was one of those attacks."No it wasn't, it was an attack in downtown Dublin ... and The BBC's Laurie Margolis was on the roof of Television Centre and saw the explosion go off.
He said: "There was an explosion and a huge bang."Mr Margolis is clearly an acute observer of events. The reporter who jotted that down and included it in the story also has a keen eye for detail. I'm so surprised that a bomb caused an explosion when it went off and that there was a large bang associated with it. I thought the IRA had mastered those new-fangled silent bombs. Someone ought to clue them in, I think. Or get them to write stories for the BBC, anyway; they couldn't do any worse. And finally, this gem: Police said they were keeping an open mind about those responsible.Are they really? I would have thought that those responsible might be guilty of something if they were responsible. Or has the Met just become totally ambivalent about arresting (or not) those responsible for terrorist attacks in London?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Dear CK: since a quibble equals one post, the reporter who saw an explosion and heard a big bang was reporting accurately. There are two parts to an explosion, the visual part and the auditory part. Perhaps he should have said he saw an explosion followed by a big bang. He might have felt the shock wave. What do you say, wow?
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There are two parts to an explosion, the visual part and the auditory part. Perhaps he should have said he saw an explosion followed by a big bang. He might have felt the shock wave. What do you say, wow?
I'd say that if anyone on this board should know, it's you ... a veteran of WWII in the Pacific.
And just in case nobody's mentioned it lately : Thank you for giving up part of your life protecting "our lives, our liberty and our sacred honor."
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Dear wow: belMarduk was kind enough to check me on a quote from DeLaRochefoucald: The refusal of praise is merely the desire to be praised twice. But I was just a lab technician hunting for parasite ova in a million stools, and then struggling to get acceptable pathology slides against the handicap of temperate zone paraffin in a tropical climate. The only explosion I saw was from ten miles away, when a shipload of oxygen and acetylene tanks blew up in the harbor. It was spectacular seeing tanks almost as big as a man flying through the air like rockets, propelled by the compressed gas. No hero I.
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