Dixie Yid

...It's 10:30 at night and a mid-level associate asks you if you're planning to stay late.

(Caveat: I'm not complaining. I found this exchange sadly amusing, but I like the work, the firm, and the people I work with, and I thank G-d that I am blessed to have a job.)

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Please donate to my son's cheder by going to minivanraffle.org to buy a raffle ticket. The drawing for a new minivan, car, or 20,000ドル cash will be IY"H Chanukah time. 100ドル for 1 ticket. 360ドル for 5. Where the form says "Referred by," please write "Dixie Yid." Tizku l'mitzvos !

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While we're on the topic of good Dixie music, I have to share this classic John Denver song, "Thank G-d I'm a Country Boy" above.

The truth is that these songs represent a bit of a dimyon, a fanciful illusion. They portray a romanticized version of small town life that probably hardly exists except to assist city folk in feeling dissatisfed with their own lives. The grass is always greener. Ezeihu ashir? Hasomeach b'chelko.

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In New York, we have a lot of snow. It actually has been a big help to me bacause it gives me the chance to do a lot of law school work that I might have had to spend part of Purim working on. It just goes to show that Hashem has a purpose for everything, as it says in Koheles, "There is a time for everything under the heavens."

And the sefer goes on to say "eis le'ehov v'eis li'SNOW," which is quite apropos to our weather today!

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I can't take it! These guys are hilarious. As kind of a sequal from their Finals Ruckus video last month, this was the "Marbim b'simcha" for Adar that some of the "Stollel" guys at YU introduced two days ago, on Tuesday at YU. Check out the instigator's introduction:

Since the initial first night rikud on Rosh Chodesh Adar outside the new Glueck beis midrash there hadn’t been much Adar spirit in the air of Washington Heights. With Purim just seven days away it was apparent that something had to be done.

I decided we would bring a giant speaker to Y.U. and position it in Garritanya’s room, conveniently located at the end of the hall in Morg facing Amsterdam Avenue and blast this new Purim Na Nach into the street in an attempt to bring great joy to the whole city.

Next, we needed to assemble a group of the biggest crazies that Y.U. has to offer to come and dance when the music would be played. The only way to do that would be to build up unfounded hype that something grand was going to take place in the street at that time. I put up signs, of course with the YU emblem attached, that there would be “A Gathering” on Tuesday on the corner of 186th Street at 12:15 . Everyone should just wait there and then react when something happened.

CLICK HERE to see the promotional flyer they used and read the full back-story. Gevaldig simcha'diker Yiddin.

I'm sure some of our precious and prickly bretheren will take issue such purported "holelus," but I say "Rock on!" Too few of us have simcha and geshmak in Yiddishkeit and we need all that we can get.

Hamsheich vaiter!

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I appologize in advance, but I had to pass on this e-mail I got just for the horrible fun of it:

What to do on a plane if the passenger next to you is irritating:

Remove your lap top from its bag.

Open the laptop slowly and carefully.

Turn on.

Ensure the passenger next to you is watching.

Turn on the Internet ( I know that it is not according to airline rules but do it anyway).

Close your eyes for a brief moment, open them again, turn your gaze upwards to the skies as if in prayer.

Take a deep breath and open this site.

Observe the facial expression of your neighboring passenger !!>:-}

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The video above shows how Crembos are made. And although the Crembo song below is not the same as the "Crembo Niggun" we sang at Mishmar in yeshiva, it's very funny!

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We got some things we needed at the "Silent Hippopotamus."

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• "I love to eat" (אני אוהב לאכול)
• "King of kindness" (מלך חסד)
• "Tent of Meeting" (אוהל מועד)
• "Noda Bi'Yehuda" (נודע ביהודה)
• "Oogie Boogie Bo Agah Boogie Oh Oh" (עוגי בוגי בו אגה בוגי אואו)
• "Jewish Army Troop" (איגוד צבאי יהודי)
• "Depression" (עצב)

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