Yikes!

Jewish Athletes

From today's Wall Street Journal article about recent changes to Mark Spitz's legacy:

Mr. Spitz's undisputed stature as one the greatest Jewish athletes of all time -- he routinely makes that list, alongside baseball legends Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg -- doesn't have quite the same cachet to him. "My mother and my mother-in-law and my wife will appreciate that," he says wryly, but it's not what got him into the pool to begin with.

you know you're gonna hear somthing good when...

...someone starts a sentence with, "Speaking of Yo-Yo Ma..."

Raspberries

I don't think I understand raspberries.

I mean, I like them fine. If you were to serve me some, I'd eat them. I just don't understand why there's a market for them. I can't imagine anyone really having a hankering for raspberries, or tasting something and thinking to themselves, "You know what would make this better? Some raspberries."

Quote of the Day

"A ganz yor shikker und Purim nichter. It's Yiddish for 'Drunk all year and sober on Purim.' That's how I feel a lot of the time."

- Dr. Rachel Adler, commenting on the keg in her class
(we're celebrating Purim on campus today)

Quote of the Day

“The only way I wouldn’t see God is if I stopped looking.”
- Dvora Weisberg

What the hell?

My earlobe hurts. What's that supposed to mean?

Quote of the Day

Dr. Adler: "I'll call on Ann, then Rachel..."
Ann: "Sorry... I was just stretching."
Dr. Adler: "Be careful when you go to auctions."

Quote of the Day

"You're the undefeated team and the number one team in the nation... Why would you play a song about a sinking ship?"

- Ari, expressing disgust at the Ohio State Marching Band playing the stupid Titanic theme song during halftime

Quote of the Day

"In the NFL, when you have six turnovers, you lose. If you're fortunate enough to win, somebody upstairs is looking out for you."

- Bears defensive end Alex Brown

Quotes of the Day

"Esther and Haman wouldn't be a bad name for the band. Kind of like Belle and Sebastian, but Jewish and probably a little harder-core."

and

"Sometimes I feel like Darrin Stevens, except that my wife is a Protestant instead of a witch."

and

"Nothing on earth, apparently, is funnier than a pretending that a dessicated carrot is a senile cat's penis."

[From my new favorite blog, Neal Pollack's The Maelstrom, in which Pollack mostly muses about his adventures in fatherhood.]