Lesson From A Gemara

I'd like to share a piece of gemara which I learned today.

The mishnah on Daf 46b in Kiddushin is on the topic of (perhaps a bit predictably) kiddushin. One way for a man to be mekadeish a woman is by giving the woman a nominal payment or an item which is worth at least a p'rutah. This mishnah discusses a case where a man is mekadeish a woman by giving her a number of dates. This is just fine, says the mishnah, as long as the dates are together worth at least a p'rutah. But how about if she eats each individual date as he gives it to her? The mishnah says that the kiddushin will take effect as long as one of the dates is worth a p'rutah. After some discussion, the gemara concludes that the mishnah means to tell us that the kiddushin will only take effect if the last date is worth a p'rutah, but the other dates can not accomplish anything at all.

And now, the punch line.

We see from here that it's a bad idea to propose to a girl on the first date.

Ba-dum ching.

Fun With Words

Last Saturday night, I was playing Balderdash at a friends house. The game revolves around making up definitions to odd-sounding (but real) words. For your enjoyment, here are some of our definitions:

fussocking: The battle cry of an Asiatic tribe which wears socks on their hands and mittens on their feet
derwinter: What comes after der spring
doramania: An obsession with owning fur coats*

And now you all know what I do on Saturday nights. Or, more precisely: (Ex)(Ey)(Sx & By & Pmyx)**

On the subject of funny words, I got a real kick out of this: (found here)

C:\DOS>
C:\DOS>RUN
RUN\DOS>RUN!

*this is, in fact, the actual meaning of "doromania"
**where S is the property of being a Saturday night, B is the property of being a game of Balderdash, P is the relationship of (1) playing (2) on (3), m is Eliyahu, and the domain is, of course, the universal domain. If you don't understand, just ask Mr. Lemon.

"I Said, 'I'm in a Library!' What?"

I'm in the YU library, and someone is currently talking a bit too loudly on their phone. They actually said, "Yes, I'm in the library." I heard it quite clearly.

That is all.

Return of the Yeti

I'm back! Granted, I'm not in quite the same place as before, but I think that it can be safely said that back is what I am. Yes, it's a different web address; no, don't ask. I won't explain unless you really pester me for a long time.

On a completely random note, I was surfing the web today when this ad came up.

Ouch. Perhaps I should have warned you not to look if you have delicate eyes or are subject to epileptic seizures. At any rate, I looked up the site which hosts the ad, for the reason that I use a tool called Adblock, which works in firefox to make ads disappear. I love it. The thing is, it needs to be programmed with keys, such as "*/ads/*", which tells Adblock not to show any item which is located in a folder called "ads." So- like I said, I look up the site, here it is. I hope you get a kick out of it, too. (I am referring to the large text in the middle of the page.)

Oops- looks like noone can comment yet. If you have a comment, feel free to get a marker, write on your computer screen, and pretend that you've left a comment.

Very quick UPDATE: If you saw the page before this update, man are you fast. Anyway, I see that Blogspot will now let you post comments even if you don't have a blogspot account. That is nice. So I will turn comments on shortly.