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Please see the following thread for a discussion of this topic:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/sefira-music
(the topic sounded familiar, and Google found the page)
Sports Cliches (from a puzzle magazine)
1) W.N.Q. and Q.N.W.
2) D. wins C.
3) Take it O.G. at a T.
4) There’s N. “I” in T.
5) G. 110 P. out T.
6) It A.O.T. it’s O. *
7) P. wins G., T. win C.
8) W. isn’t E. – it’s the O.T.
9) There’s no G. without P.
10) Most B.G. are L., not W.
11) W. make G., L. make E.
12) N. say N.
13) Y.W.S. and Y.L.S.
14) C.K.V’S. **
*Grammatically incorrect, but quite well known.
**Chag Kasher VeSameach (yes, you’re right this one isn’t a sports cliche. glad to see someone’s paying attention ?)
What Am I – Solutions
2) I lose a head in the morning, but I get it back at night. A pillow. (potpie, oomis1105)
What Am I?
2) I lose a head in the morning, but I get it back at night.
Gut Shabbos.
Chol Hamoed Concert info
(from the Jewishtickets website)
The Miami Boys Choir – Chol Hamoed Pesach 2010
Thursday, April 1st, 7:45 PM
Brooklyn College
Miami at Six Flags
Presented by NCSY
Six Flags Great Adventure
Jackson, NJ
Thursday, April 1st, Concert 1-2 pm
Miami – Gertner- Levine – Shwekey
Chol Hamoed Pesach 2010
Saturday, April 3rd, 9:45 PM
Brooklyn College
YBC Live
Thursday, April 1st, 7:30 PM
Queen’s College
Local NYC Activities for Erev Shabbos and Erev Yom Tov (second days)
-The NYC Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn. Among the exhibits are old subway cars, buses, photos, films and historic artifacts, all located in an unused subway station.
-Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge from there. The view of Brooklyn, Manhattan and the river is great and the breeze is nice.
-On the Manhattan side, tour the South Street Seaport
-The Police Museum is also nearby
(thanks for reopening this thread)
Please reopen this thread:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/chol-hamoed-trips
I didn’t notice it had been closed when I suggested the more recent Chol Hamoed thread be continued there.
Chol Hamoed Concert info
(from the Jewishtickets website)
The Miami Boys Choir – Chol Hamoed Pesach 2010
Thursday, April 1st, 7:45 PM
Brooklyn College
Miami at Six Flags
Presented by NCSY
Six Flags Great Adventure
Jackson, NJ
Thursday, April 1st, Concert 1-2 pm
Miami – Gertner- Levine – Shwekey
Chol Hamoed Pesach 2010
Saturday, April 3rd, 9:45 PM
Brooklyn College
YBC Live
Thursday, April 1st, 7:30 PM
Queen’s College
Local NYC Activities for Erev Shabbos and Erev Yom Tov (second days)
-The NYC Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn. Among the exhibits are old subway cars, buses, photos, films and historic artifacts, all located in an unused subway station.
-Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge from there. The view of Brooklyn, Manhattan and the river is great and the breeze is nice.
-On the Manhattan side, tour the South Street Seaport
-The Police Museum is also nearby
Please see this thread for ideas:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/chol-hamoed-trips
(I suggest continuing the C.H. activities discussion there, since it already has many ideas and suggestions)
To forgive the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.
-Japan
The man with a big nose thinks everyone speaks of it.
-Scotland
-Germany
-Spain
Nobody will give a pauper bread, but everybody will give him advice.
-Armenia
-Seneca
If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-Mother Teresa
-Albert Einstein
ronrsr-
“Adar has turned to Nissan (the month formerly known as Datsun)…“
1) Yes, we had to B210 years in Mitzrayim.
2) If Nissan is the name of Datson, what are the names of the other three sons?
(after lines like that one, anonymity is especially appreciated ?)
YW Moderator-42-
A+
I was literally chuckling (not shukeling, it’s too early to daven) while reading them.
To the best of my recollection, there are three separate levels of “no”:
1) No parking – the least severe.
2) No standing – you can drop off or pick up a passenger, but you can’t remain in the spot, even if you stay in the driver’s seat with the engine running. A bus stop is an example.
3) No stopping – you can’t even stop to let someone out. If you can’t pull over to the curb and you pull over next to a parked car to let someone out, you are in violation. This is usually not enforced for drop-offs and pick-ups, but occasionally people get ticketed for this. If you double-park you are in violation of the no-stopping area and can be ticketed. Remaining in the drivers seat (even with the engine running and the car in gear) makes no difference.
2) Will the answer be a single color (either black or white) or “mixed” if the maximum number of turns is reached? Mixed
3) Why?
a) If B and C have four of the same color, A knows the answer immediately (one turn)
b) If A and C have four of the same color, B knows the answer immediately (two turns)
c) If A and B each have two of the same color, C knows that he (C) has a mix, since if he (C) also had solid colors A or B would have guessed the answer (three turns).
Gut Shabbos.
YW Moderator-77-
LAer-
Thank you.
Black and White
(a logic puzzle, cribbed from another site and slightly edited)
Three people, imaginatively named A, B and C, are contestants in a game.
The host has eight small stickers; four white and four black.
The three contestants are blindfolded.
The two remaining stickers are discarded.
The blindfolds are removed.
The contestants know that the total number of stickers attached to foreheads are either:
a) 4 black, 2 white.
b) 4 white, 2 black
c) 3 black, 3 white
Now the game begins.
The possible answers are:
a) Black, black
b) White, white
c) Mixed
If a contestant guesses correctly, he wins 400 dollars and the other two players win 300 each.
If a contestant guesses incorrectly, the game ends and they each get nothing. (This rule is to eliminate guessing, even when a contestant knows that the next player will guess correctly.)
2) Will the answer be a single color (either black or white) or “mixed” if the maximum number of turns is reached?
3) Why?
1. Write your name in the square provided. the your square name provided
2. Take two apples from five apples. How many do you have? None. They were baked in a pi to celebrate some silly day.
4. If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, a
5. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many did he have left? Seventeen, of which nine were living.
6. How many animals of each species did Moses take into the Ark? None. But he had two Keruvim placed on the ark.
7. A plane full of English tourists flies from Holland to Spain. It crashes in France.
Where should the survivors be buried? Why not just ask them their preference?
8. If a redhouse is made of red wood and a whitehouse is made of white wood, what
is a greenhouse made of? Mouldy white wood.
owner of the egg? Believe it or not, the egg-laying female is called a Peahen.
10. Mrs. Taylor’s bungalow is decorated entirely in pink. Her lamps, wall, carpets,
and ceilings are all pink. What color are her stairs? What difference can it make to an obviously blind owner?
11. If you drive a bus with 42 people on board from Boston to Washington, D.C.,
and drop off 3 people at each of six stops and pick up 4 people at half the stops,
12. Write this down as one number: 15 thousand, 15 hundred and 15. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMDXV
15. How many times can you take 3 from 25? Until you get caught.
LAer-
oomis1105-
Thank you.
(self grade: b- / c+)
ronrsr-
You logic is impeccable, perhaps I should now waffle
And instead of pizza (square), order a falafel
drenched in chumus, enclosed in pita (a circle, less an arc)
even on this simple dish math will leave its mark
perhaps an odd-shaped ice-cream cake, like Carvel’s Fudgie whale
(there is no geometric shape that can describe its tail)
the day is done, the feasting’s passed, I now propose a toast
to the memory of my bathroom scale, which just gave up the ghost
goody613-
I think we all give up. Which posuk?
Dr. Pepper-
Laining is a talent. It’s a shame if someone who’s good at it gives it up.
I must be missing and/or misunderstanding something re: y = 1/(1 + x^2)
When x=-1, y=.5
When x=0, y=1
When x=1, y=.5
Isn’t the area in the two above boxes alone greater than 1 full box?
Math, math
Strains what brains I hath
Failure in the subject
Brings parental wrath
On the thirteenth, triskaidekaphobes fear Friday,
And on the fourteenth the rest of us fear Pi day
That magnificent number! Beyond compare!
The subject’s difficulty just ain’t fair
Even Google (the king of web traffic)
Is adorned today with the dread Pi graphic
Through my high school years, a fine howdy-do
?? Happy Pi day, Dr. Pepper & all other Math PhDs, Professors, teachers and enthusiasts! ??
Do you have access to Google?
If so, type in “The Shpy” with the quotes in the search bar and you will get many hits. They include Chabad, Tzivos-Hashem, YouTube, and others.
There is a CD for sale titled “The Adventures of the Shpy”, but it’s currently out-of-stock at the site Chabad links to.
“When you post you will see your post immediately, so that you can edit it. However the post will not appear on anyone else’s computer until it is moderated and approved.“
Great idea!
Now I won’t have to worry about tpyos anymore.
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(seriously, I do think it’s a great idea. thank you.)
There are literally dozens of kiddush H-shem stories on this thread:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/why-yidden-are-the-best
(and quite a bit of arguing and debating too, but you can skip those posts)
Here are links to specific ascii art on this site:
The Laboratory II – Try Your HTML & ASCII Art Experiments Here
The CR Laboratory: Try Your HTML Formatting Experiments Here
The Official Purim Thread – Mishenichnas Adar Marbim B’simcha
These two threads have several ascii art examples on their pages, including some original ones:
The Laboratory II – Try Your HTML & ASCII Art Experiments Here
YW Moderator-42-
Thank you.
Honestly, I didn’t expect this to go over particularly well, and I haven’t been disappointed.
There are game and trivia sites that work by showing the answer when moused-over, but this was the best I can do with the HTML restrictions in place.
To attempt at putting the overly-wonkish instructions into English:
Put your mouse over the blue “Z” in the alphabet list above.
This means “Sorry, but Z isn’t one of the letters. Now, give yourself a hand (or whatever limb is appropriate)”.
As the first responder, go ahead and cheat (if you’d like) and see the whole word by hovering over each letter. Don’t give it away!
Honor-system hangman.
To avoid paricipants being available when I’m not and vice-versa, this hangman game will be played using the honor system.
Hover over a letter in the alpahbetic list above and the position(s) which that letter occupies on the board will appear on the bottom of your browser where your link gets listed when you hover over a real URL. If that letter isn’t in the secret word a “sorry!” will appear.
You can then update the game as it progresses. It’s not necessary to recreate the entire board, as that can be a pain if you haven’t done it before.
If you understand the instructions and play the game properly, I’ll be the first to recognize your accomplishment and congratulate you.
Here’s to something new! (15 letters).
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?Unused letters: ?A?B?C?D?E?F?G?H?I?J?K?L?M?N?O?P?Q?R?S?T?U?V?W?X?Y?Z?
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?Used letters: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Three statisticians went bow hunting for deer.
After a fruitless half day of searching they came upon a 10-point buck standing about a hundred yards away across a river.
(source: readers digest)
Rabonim
Rav Meir of Rothenberg.
Captured and held for ransom by an evil king, he refused to let himself be redeemed because he was concerned that others would then be captured and held for ransom. He died in prison after several years.
Rav Aharon Kotler.
The existence of the thriving frum community of Lakewood, NJ and its huge bais medrash where thousands upon thousands learned are solely due to his establishing the yeshiva there.
Relatives
Jewish
Eli Cohen, who lived for years in deep cover, rising in rank within Syrian society and government, all the while spying for Israel and proving valuable information that saved lives in the Six-Day-War. He knew that discovery meant certain death, and he endured extended periods away from his family. He was captured when Syria traced his radio signal, and subsequently hanged.
Chaim Smadar, a security guard who willingly sacrificed his own life to save a supermarket full of people. He could have saved himself, but instead grabbed and held a suicide bomber before she could enter the store, telling her “You are not coming in here. You and I will blow up here.”
Secular
Pat Tillman, a professional football player, turned down millions of dollars that he would have made as a professional athlete to enlist in the army and fight for his country. He became a member of the elite Army Rangers, and later died in the line of duty in Afghanistan due to friendly fire.
(the above is just a small sample)
Dr. Pepper-
Neat! Did you come up with that or see it somewhere?
Mommy613-
If you place a backtick (the character that looks like an apostrophe, located below the tilde ~ on your keyboard) followed by a period before your art, and another backtick after your art, it will preserve your formatting.
Here’s a backtick: `
Here’s an apostrophe: ‘
I’ll guess “e”.
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?Secret word: ?E?I?N?S?T?E?I?N?I?U?M?
????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?Unused letters: ? ?B? ?D? ?F?G?H? ?J?K? ? ? ? ?P?Q?R? ? ? ?V?W?X?Y?Z?
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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?Used letters: ?A? ?C? ?E? ? ? ?I? ? ?L?M?N?O? ? ? ?S?T?U? ? ? ? ? ?
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Sheer genius!
Congrats “volvie” (who applied the cootie gra) & all participants.
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?Secret word: ?E?I?N?S?T?E?I?N?I? ? ?
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?Unused letters: ? ?B? ?D? ?F?G?H? ?J?K? ?M? ? ?P?Q?R? ? ?U?V?W?X?Y?Z?
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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?Used letters: ?A? ?C? ?E? ? ? ?I? ? ?L? ?N?O? ? ? ?S?T? ? ? ? ? ? ?
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????A periodic check showed that the posters here didn’t leave one stone unturned while coming up with theories re: the solution.
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?Secret word: ?E? ? ?S?T?E? ? ? ? ? ?
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?Unused letters: ?A?B?C?D? ?F?G?H?I?J?K?L?M?N? ?P?Q?R? ? ?U?V?W?X?Y?Z?
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?Used letters: ? ? ? ? ?E? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?O? ? ? ?S?T? ? ? ? ? ? ?
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(can’t really play now, but here’s one lunchtime update)
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?Unused letters: ?A?B?C?D? ?F?G?H?I?J?K?L?M?N? ?P?Q?R?S? ?U?V?W?X?Y?Z?
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?Used letters: ? ? ? ? ?E? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?O? ? ? ? ?T? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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An elementary puzzle, fit for a genius (11 letters)
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?Unused letters: ?A?B?C?D?E?F?G?H?I?J?K?L?M?N?O?P?Q?R?S?T?U?V?W?X?Y?Z?
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??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Even meteorites and meteors which strike the earth slow things down because their added mass must now spin with the Earth.
(All change numbers related to building tall buildings are so infinitesimal that they are probably immeasurable)
Dr. Pepper-
You can check profiles to see last-post and other info like so:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/profile/dr-pepper(cut-and-paste into the address bar)
ronrsr-
Your best ones yet!
The other day in the supermarket I heard some folks discussing, commenting on and praising your latest.
From the dairy and automotive section: egg-sealant.
From a lady examining parsley: soup-herb.
From someone checking out data recovery in the software aisle: app-loss.
Near the sunglasses rack: spec-tacular.
Keep up the good work.
? ? ? ? ? ???????? ????? ? ? ? ?
Laining
Driving down the very center of a narrow two-lane avenue. This behavior can be observed in Brooklyn on 13th and 14th avenues as well as aves. N and O.
Grogger
Dispenser of cheap wine.
Pseu-dough
The gold-foil-covered chocolate coins distributed in shalach manos.
Sioux da
A Russian-speaking native American.
Grape Jews
Ahmadinejad (ym”s)
Honkee
One who pulls their car over for a nanosecond to deliver a shalach manos in Boro Park or Flatbush.
Rubber
Halfback
Hungover
A common state of waistlines (and heads) after the sueda.
Roil tea
Stirring your hot drink with a spoon.
Sinister
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17) What a cartoonist would draw to illustrate Buzz Lightyear’s enemy is actually sleeping and not just lying down. Zurg ZZZs (or Zurg’s ZZZs – they’d be spoken almost identically)
18) The matriarch of a group of large, poisonous lizards. Ma Gila (ronrsr)
19) Two-score and ten Famous chocolate-chip cookies. 50 Amos (the gallows’ height)
20) What the Svedish laundromat employee asks you when you bring in dirty clothes. Vash dese? (ronrsr)
21) Usually this means clemency; not in the case of Haman and his ten sons. A suspended sentence
ronrsr-
Tricorn – excellent! I actually “pointed out” (ha, ha) on a different thread that in colonial times men wore hamenteshen.
Since no one else answered…
5. More than one Polish airline – Lots
a few quick ones before running off to work (new! extra corny!):
17) What a cartoonist would draw to illustrate Buzz Lightyear’s enemy is actually sleeping and not just lying down.
18) The matriarch of a group of large, poisonous lizards.
19) Two-score and ten Famous chocolate-chip cookies.
20) What the Svedish laundromat employee asks you when you bring in dirty clothes.
21) Usually this means clemency; not in the case of Haman and his ten sons.
ronrsr-
14. Ernest and Julio Gallo(ws)
[me]
The nothing-to-do-with Purim quiz – Answers
2) An organic compound formed when an acid (often a carboxylic acid) and an alcohol react, releasing water. ester (ronrsr)
9) What a bootblack gives you. Shoeshine (oomis1105)
10) P.O.P. are the initials of this popular computer game. Prince of Persia (ronrsr, YW Moderator-42)
11) Three-fingered one-time-Cub pitcher. Mordecai (Brown) (ronrsr, YW Moderator-42)
12) A fatalistic sense of the absurd. Gallows humor
13) Word game in which a stick-figure is slowly completed when letters are guessed incorrectly. Hangman (oomis1105)
oomis1105-
It’s good to “practice” before the main event.
ronrsr-
oomis1105-
In good conscience the following wee smidgen of a hint must be given:
Let’s say (speaking in the hypothetical) that the “nothing to do with Purim” statement above was made in the spirit of venahapoch hu.
Let’s further say that answer 7 above was correct, but it could be spelled “?????”
…and that 9, while also correct, would be “????”
(13 is fine as-is.)
asdfghjkl-
Find-a-word gives away the answers so you know what to look for.
The answers have nothing to do with the prior puzzle, which (remember) has nothing to do with Purim.
Zip. Zilch. Nada. Or (as I thought in the voting booth in 2000), Gore-nischt.
Find-a-word
(maybe just slightly having to do with Purim)
(copied from another site)
FGBHJLCZUUIOYSCFWOWB
YQWFVJNIGZXWLKSACMPS
IBHKKTSWPDKTTVCYCXDD
RKASZIEABYATHSAMRAPR
HKSMORDECHAIHHTTYLOA
ZEAITRDQIRANLWASIIRU
YYCBDAIUUZCDSASGCUAG
REHABIJEFEVTNSAAHWSD
PVJDLZIEVGEKJADLXOAA
NYLZTEHNAHCNNPNLKLZL
AVZGGMREYASEVSAOXFHP
ARNEFVESZMEAEAHWVVRH
WUHSERETAARRHZSSIAXO
ZKUCVTXHSNVIWCRHWPBN
EORIGZZEASADIRAPTAKH
KEQSCXPRKONAJDPGKITQ
IHRTTZOZSETIANBGNXFO
CMYEBCZOQCSLFNASGIBX
LKYQLUAVEJIECZLKKEKW
NKSWKTBQVAKUZXMJBCIA.
Find the following:
ADALIA
ARIDAI
ARIDASA
ASPASA
BIGSAN
DALPHON
GALLOWS
GUARDS
HAMAN
HASACH
KINGACHASHVEIROSH
MORDECHAI
PARMASHTA
PARSHANDASA
PORASA
QUEENESTHER
QUEENVASHTI
SERVANTS
TERESH
VAYZASA
The nothing-to-do-with Purim quiz
1) Sunk together with the USS Yorktown by a Japanese submarine following the battle of Midway.
2) An organic compound formed when an acid (often a carboxylic acid) and an alcohol react, releasing water.
4) Yiddish for a famed Hershey product.
9) What a bootblack gives you.
10) P.O.P. are the initials of this popular computer game.
11) Three-fingered one-time-Cub pitcher.
12) A fatalistic sense of the absurd.
13) Word game in which a stick-figure is slowly completed when letters are guessed incorrectly.
yoshi-
I hope your niece has had a refuah shelaima.
Is she still in a “tehilim is requested” situation?
Yasher koach to “YW Moderator-80” who has been quite busy looking up and posting helpful info for others (as well as keeping some threads that were going off-the-rails “moderate”).
oomis1105-
cherrybim-