Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Ani BaYa'ar Halachti...Really

I got a comment today on a post from May (Thank G-d for the blogger feature that emails you when you receive comments on any post). The comment was about a song etched into my essence and you can find it here along with my reply (the post is short, the action is in the comments). I mentioned my interest in the song more recently, expressing public gratitude to those who put efforts into helping me learn more about it - at the end of this free flowing post.
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A couple of months back I arrived late at a book fair that was already selling stuff for very cheap. In the last hour off the sale they sold all the books (brand new) for several dollars. I bought Plato And A Platypus Walk Into A Bar for three dollars. It attempts to use jokes to explain philosophy. Here's one I read that kids today probably wouldn't get.
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One evening a little boy in the suburbs asks his daddy where mommy is. The father replies, "Mommy is at a Tupperware party." The kid asks, "What's that?" and his father explains, "It's when a bunch of ladies sit around and sell plastic bowls to each other." The boy laughs like crazy and then says, "Come on dad! What is it really?"

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Life in the suburbs makes you do strange things.

February 5, 2009 at 6:03 PM  
Blogger rabbi neil fleischmann said...

Yeah, I saw The Ice Storm...

February 5, 2009 at 7:30 PM  

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