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"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'." Groucho Marx

Archives for September 2007

Try Not To Get Too Eggcited

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Many readers are aware of my friendship with The Waffle King. In fact I have received more than a couple of emails in which people have asked me to intercede on their behalf and ask the Rebbe of Waffles to provide us with a copy of his secret recipe.

For a number of reasons I have been unable to fill this request. However I am pleased to say that I can offer my help in providing you with information on eggs. Thanks to the miracle of technology I can provide you with links to three different eggspert recipes.

Treppenwitz– No guns required for this recipe. 😉

Planck’s Constant– Notice the handy diagram.

Random Thoughts– Not so random recipe.

Have a great recipe that you want to share? Send it in or leave it in the comments and we’ll see about adding it to the eggstravaganza.

The Power Of Bloggers

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Burkean Reflections has an interesting post about the power of bloggers. I tend to agree. It is a mistake to think that you cannot influence anyone else or that the strength of your words ends at the bottom of your monitor.

You cannot know just how far your post may go. A simple Google search can lead to so many places and opportunities.

What do you think? Can you really influence someone else? Or is that just wishful thinking.

Misplaced Priorities- The Saggy Pants Crackdown

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“Proposals to ban saggy pants are starting to ride up in several places. At the extreme end, wearing pants low enough to show boxers or bare buttocks in one small Louisiana town means six months in jail and a $500 fine. A crackdown also is being pushed in Atlanta. And in Trenton, getting caught with your pants down may soon result in not only a fine, but a city worker assessing where your life is headed.

“Are they employed? Do they have a high school diploma? It’s a wonderful way to redirect at that point,” said Trenton Councilwoman Annette Lartigue, who is drafting a law to outlaw saggy pants. “The message is clear: We don’t want to see your backside.”

I am not a fan of the saggy pants look. It always looked ridiculous to me, but I haven’t viewed it as being a huge problem either. Apparently others do because there is a growing movement to end the sag.

It seems like a bad case of misplaced priorities to me. If they had to pick on one aspect of fashion to go after I’d do something about body modification. Like the guy in the picture below. Why oh why would you do that.

Still, these are low on my list of priorities. What about trying to help the homeless or make health care more accessible than it is today.

Best of The Jewish Blogosphere- Humphrey Bogart Edition

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My friend Robert enjoys providing Haveil Havalim with a new title. Each week we can depend on him to provide the rewrite and some Hollywood trivia. Today I decided to beat him to it with a tribute to one of my favorite actors, Humphrey Bogart.

Bogart made a number of excellent films that I could quote. But I’ll go for the old standby and give you a couple of quotes from Casablanca which is easily in my top five favorite movies.

Captain Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

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Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I’ve done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you’re getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.

Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I… I…
Rick: Now, you’ve got to listen to me! You have any idea what you’d have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we’d both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn’t that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I’m afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa: You’re saying this only to make me go.
Rick: I’m saying it because it’s true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You’re part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you’re not with him, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We’ll always have Paris. We didn’t have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. Now, now… Here’s looking at you kid.

Go check out Soccer Dad’s latest edition. It is chock full of good posts.

Perfect Pushups

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If you click here you can see my latest purchase. I have had them for a couple of weeks. They work beautifully.

The goal is to get to a point where I can do a 100 a night. It is not out of the question. When I was younger I used to do 6 sets of 25 each day. Three in the morning and three in the evening. It has been a while since those days.

But I figure that within three months I can be back there. Once I hit the mark the plan is to keep it up for the rest of my life.

Ok, it is time to try and get some shut eye. More can be found on that in the post below this one.