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AddReply(507248,"Jan, Denver","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/23/09","You hit the nail on the head. Give \'em bread and circuses and they\'re happy.  Well, guess what? The bread is about to run out and then who will be the  \"entertainment? \"\nGotta get rid of all those pesky hungry mouths. How did the Romans amuse themselves in the last couple of centuries of their existence? Any one even have a clue? Any one give a damn?");
AddReply(507196,"Fun?","Jan","Denver","10/23/09","Fun is what killed the US, fun entertaiment, it replaced hard mundane work that produced responsible families and youth. Fun turned brains to mush.  ");
AddReply(506836,"To S. K.  # 9, or #28 depending on how you view these TB\'s:","Same Brit","Somewhere in Israel","10/22/09","Forsooth, thou art right, Sir. Verily, how long hath it been since one of our colonials hath spoken sense as thou hast done in thy talk-back. Thou shewest that the King\'s speech liveth still, even in our islands across the seas.\n\nAnd Yvonne (#12 or #25, depending on how you view these TB\'s): I certainly did not write in humor - only in humour. Laugh! But I sympathise with your Dutch issue: If I read Dutch today, I too have a difficult time recognizing it; then again, I have the same problem, with Spanish, French, Serbo-Croat, Swaheli, and most other languages under the sun.\n\nWhy can\'t those deuced foreigners learn to speak English?!");
AddReply(506810,"Malka","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/22/09","Apparently this is A7\'s new format. They\'re doing it on all the talkbacks.\nJust hit the  \"end \" button and start reading up. ");
AddReply(506609,"air shows shabbat","hanina","","10/21/09","You need to live near an airforce base where they fly low over your shul in formations.\nIf you jump up and down enough,\nsometimes a lady pilot will divert from the pack and do something special in your honor.");
AddReply(506544,"Glad You Noticed Too, SK","Malka","upstate NY","10/21/09","I thought Tamar and A7 were trying to  \"gaslight \" me with reversing the order of the comments.\n\nTamar, A7, please go back to the 1 at the top and subsequent comments to the bottom. It\'s easier to follow. Thanks.");
AddReply(506304,"Fun","judith","usa","10/21/09","\'Fun\' is definitely underestimated as a motivator! I\'m with you Tamar!!  I think learning would increase greatly and even mundane jobs become easier. I\'m working on singing songs and playing music more often!  To think happy thoughts and dwell on those things good and beautiful is healthy for the mind and soul.");
AddReply(506292,"As the world turns.....","Floyd Helms","Cookeville, USA","10/21/09","Tamar, Here is a kicker....when they was little,they stepped on my feet. When they became older,they stepped on my heart. Oh, the pain(s).sigh.");
AddReply(506290,"Why are the TBs reversed-ordered suddenly?","sk","USA","10/21/09","");
AddReply(506216,"British person, # 13...","yvonne","cary","10/20/09","Yeah, and Z is pronounced zed in Dutch too. At least, used to be. I have lived in the U.S. for a very long time. Language, dear Britton, is a living thing, pronounciations change, word are added, spelling is changed. If I read Dutch today, I have a difficult time recognizing it, and see a lot of German and American additions. But I see that, because I have been out of the loop for a long time. Since my American, English and German are still there, I have no trouble reading it. Otherwise...! Afrikaans, similarly, is really Dutch, or, maybe NOT really? In any case it is another example of how language may change over time. Who is to say what is correct, and what is not? Some behaviours are correct in Gr. Britain, but would be behaviors with *an additood* over here. We studied such things in High School. The course was called, then, language circles. By the way, have you EVER noticed that doctors, economists, jurists, and several other professions, have their own language? Good day, Sir!");
AddReply(506199,"Sorry Tamar","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/20/09","Somethings are meant to be serious and solemn and the sooner our kids realize that life isn\'t one big party that entitles them to play \'til they drop, the better off we\'ll all be.\n50 is a number, get over it. \nWe are supposed to approach our prayer time with the dignity and decorum we bring to an audience with royalty because that\'s exactly what it is. For getting form one floor to another or disposing of recyclables sure it\'s fun to play a little.  When we can\'t distinguish between those activities and the Awe of Hashem, I guess the Romans knew what they were doing by providing bread and circuses to the masses. \nBoth these videos were disturbing in the way the people were so easily manipulated into doing what the researchers wanted them to do.  Does not bode well for our future. ");
AddReply(506180,"A Smile To Dacon:)","Malka","upstate NY","10/20/09","I agree entirely!\n\nGreat post, Tamar, TY.\n\n\nBTW: Please check the numbering on the previous post--it\'s really out of whack. I swear it is, going from 49 to 1. And before I checked and none of the comments appeared.\n\nIt could be gremlins in the blog software causing temporary problems. Weird.");
AddReply(506165,"Former Brit (11)","sk","USA","10/20/09","If you want old fashioned usage, may I suggest reversion to the Middle English of Shakespeare?");
AddReply(506122,"Who has been to the Wall?","yvonne","cary","10/20/09","Check out www.Road90.com and find the above title, left. Then take a good look at who has been to the Wall. I saw one guy, in shorts, who has found the direct line to Hashem by cellphone. No slips of paper in the Wall for this man. I think we must keep an eye on him. Could that be the Messiah asking for instructions? By the way, Tamar, I got this in my inbox today and tried to forward it to you, but your email address was incorrect. I have used it before. If you want people to email you, post it, if not, do not ask for email. There was another one on Road90 about a muslim point of view, which, to me, was hillarious as well, but also contained a warning to us here in the U.S., indirectly.\n\nTamar responds:\nPeople can email me by clicking on the email link under my photo up above on the right hand column.  Otherwise, my direct email is:  tamary@israelnationalradio.com  You can also follow me on Twitter.  (Username:  \'TYonah\' and link is in right hand column.)");
AddReply(506089,"Wow, Tamar!","yvonne","cary","10/20/09","First, that must be a youth photo of you. You are not REALLY close to 50, are you? Second, you and I, kid, have a lot in common. In their mid 40\'s my kids are still *the kids* and my grandchildren are my *kids* as well. They are all adults, and I am the one doing the dishes, when they come over, slowly...I loved the videos. This has been a good start of the day, and I got a few good ones from Road90 as well. It is good to laugh!\n\nTamar responds:  \nYvonne, I am 49 and a half (still playing half-sies), and I have earned every year, every wrinkle.  Don\'t take it away from me, I worked hard for it!!!!!  (grin)  \nYou know that old saying.... \n\"You know you are getting old when you bend down to tie your shoe, and you wonder, \'What else can I do while I\'m down here?\'.\"");
AddReply(506070,"But would we get credit for the mitzvah if it were all fun?","CDG","Yerushalayim","10/20/09","As it is, preparing for Shabbat IS fun...setting up the plata for food and the lights for Shabbat, lighting candles, having special foods (I tend to have baked goods and other goodies only on Shabbat), and other things. Going to beit-knesset (especially Machon Meir) and singing with holy passion is REALLY fun. Not to mention the dancing on erev Shabbat and Chagim...\n\nAre the people who are climbing the stairs really climbing them or are they playing piano with their feet? Are they throwing bottles into the bottle collector or are they playing an arcade game? (of course, they\'re getting a lot more out of being on the piano stairs and they are throwing a lot more bottles into the collector, but should they get credit for it?)\n\nOK, it\'s true that society would benefit more, all around, with better health and a cleaner environment. The inventors get LOTS of credit for making tedious chores and boring things fun.\n\nI wonder if this is a microtaste of what geula will be like? Maybe all stairs everywhere will play musical instrument sounds, etc. etc. etc...?");
AddReply(506050,"Fuuny, but I\'m going fishing!","Gary","Monterey, CA","10/20/09","");
AddReply(506016,"And you know the best bit in all this?","Former Brit (guess who...)","Somewhere in Israel","10/20/09","Both videos even spelt  \"behaviour \" correctly - none of this American  \"behavior \" nonsense! At last someone has come to the defence (yes, with a \'c\') of English, which none of our neighbours seem to get right.\n\nAnd since both these videos were shot in Stockholm, Sweden, you might like to check out  \"Swedish Made Simple \" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3M1nppd3c (but remember that \'Z\' is pronounced \'zed \" and not \'zee\').");
AddReply(506007,"Fun","Laura Sanderson","Ashkelon","10/20/09","Very Clever.  Guess  those Scandanavians are good for something after all!");
AddReply(506004,"Making giving fun","Paul S.","Toronto, Canada","10/20/09","In Buffalo, NY there is a fun device designed to encourage people to donate money to charity without making one feel guilty.  It is a large plastic cone-shaped receptacle that accepts coins that go for a worthy cause.  One drops in a coin\nand it spins on its edge faster and \nfaster towards the narrow funnel at the centre of the cone until it drops into the receptacle at the bottom.\nNear the bottom of the cone the coin spins so fast that it overcomes the natural tendency to fall in and seems to defy the law of \ngravity temporarily.  People donate\na lot of money this way and they walk away contented.  Donating \nmoney can be fun, if presented in\nthe right way.  Maybe other devices\ncan be invented to encourage  \"fun \"\nyet have a beneficial effect.  Hmm.\nNote to Tamar:  Please accept my\nthanks for including a translation of\neven the simplest Jewish religious\nterms so that the widest possible \naudience can share in your blog.  It\nseems that some folks don\'t understand my campaign for adding\ntranslations is beneficial for all and\ncauses no harm.  See my  \"battle \" in Fishman\'s blog.  I am not arguing\nwith him, but with his talkbackers who lard their replies with obscure\nand complex Hebrew and rabbinic\nterms that defy easy analysis.  When I have asked, politely, for them to add translations to their \n \"frummicode \" (my term for the action of writing in a kind of mysterious religious shorthand) they respond with even more convoluted talkbacks and flaming me as some kind of rabble-rouser.\nPlease Tamar get the message out\nthat I am not  \"anti-Jewish \" but  \"pro\nclarity \".  The more that people can understand us the better will be our efforts at hasbara (public relations).\nThanking you for your efforts, I remain yours sincerely, Paul.");
AddReply(505963,"JUDAISM IS FUN ALSO WITH THE RIGHT TEACHERS","","...DACON9","10/20/09","ITS OUR JOB TO FIND ONE\nA TORAH ORTHODOX TEACHER.\nno,\n they are humans and not all the same.\nsome speak softly some speak strongly\nsome are funny\nsome are strick\n\nITS OUR JOB\n TO FIND ONE THAT FITS OUR PERSONALITY....\n\nThen try to be a Jew a LITTLE more then yesterday....\n");

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