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  • in reply to: Sweet 16 #1333345
    MRS PLONY
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    Some Latin American cultures have a ‘Quincianera’ celebrating a girl turning 15. The Sweet 16 is just a fun party.

    in reply to: Mazel Tov to the Family of Little Froggie #1333327
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    Mazel Tov!

    in reply to: Mazal Tov to the family of CTLAWYER #1333252
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    Mazel Tov! But couldn’t this thread be used to somehow figure out who you really are? Is this a good idea?

    in reply to: ANOTHER shocking LETTER published IN the VOICE of LAKEWOOD #1327350
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    To clarify: I also don’t want rebbes to hit kids. But even if there are people who don’t object to it, they DO (or at least SHOULD) object to KIDS hitting other kids, and that’s how this thread starts.

    Now, is there anything we can do for Mama1 and her son?

    in reply to: ANOTHER shocking LETTER published IN the VOICE of LAKEWOOD #1325934
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    I know that CR threads typically go off-topic, but I really hate seeing this one get hijacked.

    No matter how you feel about rebbes hitting students or parents hitting offspring, everybody here ought to agree that STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HIT EACH OTHER. And a group of students is not allowed to gang up and hit one classmate. And it is the responsibility of the adults to enforce that. And if adults allow students to engage in bullying behavior, then the adults are at fault and can/should be held responsible.

    I am ignoring Joseph. You should, too.

    in reply to: ANOTHER shocking LETTER published IN the VOICE of LAKEWOOD #1322792
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    Mama1, Oh this is terrible. I really feel for you and for your son. I hope some change happens.
    Kollelman, thanks for breaking things down so clearly.
    CT Lawyer, I’m glad we have an expert here.
    Reb Yidd, you’re being a real voice of reason tonight, Thanks.

    in reply to: Frum Mom of 6 Thrown In Jail #1315591
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    Um, Yeshiva World: You’re a news website. Can’t you try to track down the facts of this case and report on it?

    And while we’re on the topic, I’ve always resented that quip about ‘Three sides to every story’. It’s just so mean-spirited to accuse everybody of lying.

    in reply to: What’s the point in “real” jewelry? #1302116
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    in reply to: East Ramapo budget should be voted down #1298320
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    How come?
    I mean, obviously we should all exercise our civic duty to vote in whichever elections are applicable to us. But how come the budget should be voted down?

    in reply to: Why is there a meow in homeowner? #1296033
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    Wow lightbrite. You are perceptive. And thank you for my smile for the day.

    in reply to: Why pickles are better than marshmallows #1292344
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    There are vegan marshmallows. They are pretty good.

    in reply to: Swiss Chocolate vs. Belgian Chocolate 🍫🇧🇪🇮🇱 #1283012
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    Israeli chocolate? I seem to recall hearing in the news that when Saddam Hussein (Y”SHM)’s two sons were killed while fighting Western forces, they found wrappers from Israeli candy bars in the bunker with them. Anybody else remember that?

    in reply to: I am aware that it’s no joke 🚫🃏 #1275827
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    Yeah, Plus one! CR would be dull without you.

    in reply to: I am aware that it’s no joke 🚫🃏 #1274429
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    Thanks, Mod 79.

    Off topic, RebYidd23: How come you referred to yourself in the third person?

    in reply to: I am aware that it’s no joke 🚫🃏 #1273841
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    Some things are never funny, even as a joke. (I don’t have to give examples, do I?) Some things are funny as a joke, but not in real life. It seems like RebYidd23 is referring to some specific joke on a different thread, and since I don’t know what that joke was, I can’t be sure which category the joke in question falls into.

    in reply to: Wedding Veils: Charedi vs Hassidic vs … 👰 #1270247
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    Um, can we get back to talking (posting) about veils? Or am I being unrealistic?

    in reply to: Wedding Veils: Charedi vs Hassidic vs … 👰 #1267550
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    Hi, Nechoma, I always used to think that ‘badeken’ and ‘dek-tuch’ were related to ‘deck’ as in ‘cover’ or ‘decorate’. But then somehow I realized that ‘badeken’ is linguistically related to ‘bodek’ meaning ‘check’, because the groom checks that he is getting the bride he expected, unlike when Yaakov Avinu was tricked into marrying Leah when he wanted to marry Rachel.

    in reply to: (RebYidd23) #1262528
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    Uh, waitaminute. ‘Her’?

    in reply to: Lightbrite, are you okay? #1253574
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    Have a beautiful yomtov wherever you are, Lightbrite

    in reply to: I think we need a new forum specially for GoGoGo’s mishugassen #1252923
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    But only some of us can be good spellers.

    in reply to: Trying to get rid of good junk #1249538
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    Where do you live? If you live in an ‘in-town’ community then there is probably a gemach, or at least free-giveaway listings in the local Jewish publication.

    in reply to: Quote from Aristotle in Tachlis Magazine #1241376
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    We won’t bring Tachlis magazine into our home for almost a year already. What did they quote him on?

    in reply to: My wedding #1228666
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    Mazel Tov! If you stress, then remind yourself ‘Gam zeh Ya’avor’ This too, shall pass. The wedding only lasts a few hours, but you should be blessed to share with your chasan a marriage that will last for many, many, many years.

    in reply to: It is the same tune!!! #1225984
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    Hi, Shopping 613. You mean ‘Jump Down Spin Around’ has been popular lately? The video my son showed me looked old, like a black-and-white TV broadcast.

    When I was a kid my folks had probably all of Alan Sherman’s records. (Wish I could listen to them now. Sigh.) JDSA was probably on “My Son the Folk Singer”. The records were old way back then in the ’70s, and the songs must have been a part of the culture for some time before that in order for them to be recognizable for parody purposes.

    I always heard that music notation as we know it is a fairly modern invention, so we have no way of knowing how the songs sung/played in antiquity actually sounded. Wouldn’t it be hilarious to find out when Moshiach comes if the music from the Bais HaMikdash sound familiar. But in an unexpected way, like today’s pop songs or something.

    in reply to: It is the same tune!!! #1225977
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    So now I know where that particular melody comes from. And you do, too.

    Happy Purim everybody.

    in reply to: It is the same tune!!! #1225975
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    Rats. Okay. You win.

    in reply to: It is the same tune!!! #1225973
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    Meno, I base my assertion that “You are my sunshine” and “This land is your land” are the same tune on the fact that they sound alike. Same thing with “Twinkle Twinkle” and the Jeopardy theme. I don’t know what ‘phrasing’ is.

    in reply to: It is the same tune!!! #1225964
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    Meno, can we agree to disagree?

    in reply to: It is the same tune!!! #1225962
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    The Jeopardy song IS TOO just “Twinkle Twinkle” with a funky beat. Try singing “Twinkle Twinkle” to the Jeopardy tune, and you’ll see that it fits.

    Also, “You are my sunshine” and “This land is your land” use the same tune. As each other, I mean.

    in reply to: When is a quarter worth fifty cents? #1213069
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    Oh. Thanks, Randomex. I never saw it in print, just heard it said, so I didn’t know.

    Anyway, closure time: Tonight two separate men came collecting. Most of the tzedaka money has been distributed and we’re back to coins. In each case I apologetically said, “I don’t have much; can I give you a quarter?” One collector said “Sure” and I sent Little Prince Plony to hand it to him. The second one said “No, it’s okay” and I told him “Zei Gebentsched.”

    Thank you for reading.

    in reply to: When is a quarter worth fifty cents? #1213066
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    AMEN! TEN L’MAR! Thank you so much, lb. I’m going into Shabbos in a great mood now!

    in reply to: When is a quarter worth fifty cents? #1213064
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    I actually didn’t see the collector’s reaction. I sent LPP to give him the money because most of the time men who are collecting in my neighborhood won’t take money directly from a woman’s hand. By the same token, I’m afraid that if I gave him a bracha per lightbrite’s suggestion he might get offended that I would converse with him. But your idea of asking if he would take a quarter – that way he doesn’t waste time waiting by my door if 25 cents isn’t worth his while.

    I used to say to every collector, no matter how much I gave, “I wish I could give more, and I wish you didn’t have to go collecting.” But someone convinced me to stop.

    in reply to: When is a quarter worth fifty cents? #1213057
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    Thank you for the moral support, Lul. I suppose the man last night figured that if all we could give was 25 cents, then we needed it more than him. But it was money that had been set aside specifically for charity, so I can’t use it in good conscience myself.

    For the record I broke the big bill today, so now we have ones to distribute.

    in reply to: When is a quarter worth fifty cents? #1213054
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    Hey, Coffee Addict: Bump! This actually happened to me this very evening!

    Someone came collecting tonight and we had a large bill and a few coins set aside. (I feel bad asking someone for change when giving tzedaka – like I come out with a 10 dollar bill and get their hopes up, but then I ask for 8 or 9 dollars back and they’re disappointed.) If I would have had a one dollar bill then I would have given him that. Next best thing was to offer him a quarter. I sent Little Prince Plony to the door to be the shaliach shel mitzvah, but the man who was collecting just walked away without it.

    Sighhh… I feel terrible. Do you guys think I should have asked him for change from the bill?

    in reply to: Foods Rashi never ate #1216197
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    Cheesecake. It’s a totally modern invention.

    in reply to: Jews in the Trump administration #1210590
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    Uh, waitaminute litebrite, you said “Also… You know that Trump used to keep Hitler’s speeches by his bedside, right? He studied Hitler. His father was involved in the KKK. These are not conspiracies. This is fact.” I never heard anything like that anyplace before. Where’d you get that?

    in reply to: Gentile means atheist or polytheist? #1210694
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    Can you just ask the rabbi who said it to clarify?

    in reply to: It is the same tune!!! #1225927
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    The Jeopardy theme song is just “Twinkle Twinkle” with a funky beat.

    in reply to: Shadchanim charges #1208025
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    I had one aggressive shadchanit who kept setting me up with unsuitable boys and then pressuring me like, “How can you say ‘no’ when you haven’t met him? Talking on the phone isn’t enough.” Then it was “How can you say ‘no’ when you’ve only met him once? You need to meet with a boy a few times to get to know him.” Then it was “How can you say no NOW, after you’ve gone out with him so many times? It was very unfair for you to string him along.” I realized afterward that she just wanted her shadchan fee. If I would have understood from the outset I would have said “Here’s $500. No pressure. If you make my shidduch, you got your fee in advance. If not, it was a gift. Don’t bother me.”

    in reply to: CONTROVERSY IN RAMAPO – LoHud Article Has Community Buzzing #1208249
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    I thank the mods for allowing the link.

    in reply to: Sleep all day #1211295
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    I tried googling but I got nowhere; I distinctly recall hearing about somebody on the Country Yossi show who called himself ‘Trucker Yitz’ or ‘Yitz the Truck Driver’. He could answer this question.

    Mods, you’re good.

    Thanks

    in reply to: Preparing children for REAL LIFE at a very young age #1206560
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    Thank you, lightbrite.

    in reply to: Preparing children for REAL LIFE at a very young age #1206558
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    Yeah. It drives me bonkers when people criticize kids’ age-appropriate behavior. My six-year-old or eight-year-old will act up and one of my in-laws will say that I should get strict with my child, and ask “When’s she going to stop? When she’s 20?” And I’m like, “Didn’t YOU change your behavior between kindergarten and college? She will, too.”

    Well, I think it. If I said it then I’d get in trouble.

    in reply to: Chocolate maccabees #1204957
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    Winnie, why do you mention giraffe animal crackers? Giraffes are kosher. No one eats them, for a variety of reasons like being protected species and not having a strong mesorah. But when my firstborn was a baby a Chabad friend gave us a bunting with giraffes and was pleased that she had found something with a kosher animal.

    in reply to: Eggs #1207670
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    Takamamash, you made my day!

    BTW, I keep my eggs on the bottom shelf all the way to the left. That’s just what’s most convenient for us.

    in reply to: Eggs #1207663
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    IT was this skit that the kids used to do. There were four characters: the cook, the other guy, the doctor, and the director. The cook would act out flipping something in a frying pan. The second guy would walk in and ask “What are you doing?” The cook said “I’m cooking eggs. Want some?” The second guy would pretend to eat and say “These eggs are terrible!” before falling down. The cook would shout “Doctor, doctor, come quick! This man is sick!” The doctor would enter and announce “This man is dead!” (But of course no one was dead. It was a skit. I didn’t need to clarify that; you knew.) The director would come over and shout “Cut! That was terrible! Do it again faster! Or slower, or like ballet, or some other silly variation. Over and over again while that audience cracked up at the absurdity.

    This was before we had You Tube to entertain ourselves. It makes me a little sad to think that the “Eggs” skit is no longer being performed anyplace. I hope that somewhere, somebody still knows what I’m talking about.

    in reply to: Eggs #1207659
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    Sorry. Either you know the routine or you don’t. Nostalgia for the 90’s in the Eastern Seaboard region.

    in reply to: Eggs #1207657
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    Flip…Chhhh. Flip…Chhhh. “What are you doing?” “I’m cooking eggs; want some?”

    I guess no one gets it.

    in reply to: Tips for helping stressed out mothers #1176413
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    Please don’t rehash the kimeturin debate again.

    Sparkly: Aw, I’m so sorry to hear that people give you grief over your choices. Keep focusing on what Hashem wants from you. Eyes on the prize, my dear.

    in reply to: Tips for helping stressed out mothers #1176405
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    College students? Get enough sleep. Don’t cram the night before an exam; pace yourself in studying throughout the term.

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