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August 12th, 2003

  1. Remarkable Quotes From Some Remarkable Jews

    August 12, 2003 by Gail

    I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. —Woody Allen

    My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada. —David Steinberg

    Too bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair. —George Burns

    I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up. They have no holidays. —Henny Youngman

    Don’t be humble; you are not that great. —-Golda Meir

    It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it. ——Sam Levenson

    I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks. —–Joe E. Lewis

    I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. —–Jackie Mason

    Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. ——-Richard Lewis

    The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is Jewish. ——-Jules Farber

    Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you’re Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.. —–Lenny Bruce

    The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. —-Calvin Trillin

    Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! —–Golda Meir

    Even a secret agent can’t lie to a Jewish mother. ——Peter Malkin

    Humility is no substitute for a good personality. ——Fran Lebowitz

    My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. —-Benjamin Disraeli

    God will pardon me. It’s His business. —-Heinrich Heine

    Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors. —-Sam Goldwyn

    A spoken contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. —-Sam Goldwyn

    Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution? —–Groucho Marx

    A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. —-Oscar Levant

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  2. My Big Project of the Next Few Months

    August 12, 2003 by Gail

    … until the Fall Term starts in a few weeks, anyway…

    The H-R P-R Party website is nearly finished. Claire got hacked into yesterday, so it was a bit of a setback, but not a big one.

    I’m expecting at least 200 people. I’ve booked the ballroom at the Renaissance Hotel, blocked out rooms, worked out a provisional banquet menu, and I’ve been working on the website with Claire. Things are shaping up. Much to do!

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  3. Stupid Mistakes. You Know the Ones.

    August 12, 2003 by Gail

    Just when you thought you had ‘em licked, they show up on exams and bite you on the butt. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s because exams and I just don’t get on. Let me give you an example. The first linguistics exam of the term (they are all multiple choice questions), I found a particular 9-question problem too easy (this professor likes trickery, I didn’t think he would let it be this easy), and horror of horrors changed all my answers to that problem. Needless to say, that is clearly Stupid Mistake #1 in the “Top 10 Stupid Exam Mistakes.” You’d think I’d have learned this lesson in bloody high school.

    Even more stupidly (if that is indeed an adverb), I noticed some of the questions from exams 1 & 2 showed up on the final exam, and a couple of the ones I had right on the other exams I marked incorrectly on the final! What’s the matter with me?? Am I out to prove even more how much I am my own worst enemy???

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