MrGorsky: You look different
guest4: shavua tov
MrGorsky: Like a Russian peasant circa 1914
guest4: how was your kiddush?
YourMoralLeader: thank you
YourMoralLeader: hi gina
YourMoralLeader: it was pretty bad
guest4: mine was s**tty too
MrGorsky: How can a kiddush go bad?
YourMoralLeader: pronounciation nerves
MrGorsky: ahhhh
MrGorsky: You need a kiddush card, with all the words transliterated out
guest4: b"h you don’t stutter
YourMoralLeader: doesnt help much
guest4: told you its that NCSY bencher….
MrGorsky: My kiddush card has blackjack tips on one side, pronunciation on the other
MrGorsky: You can’t lose
MrGorsky: G-d wants you to win in the game of life
MrGorsky: You should attend my seminar
guest4: Luke 1st has to play with a full deck
MrGorsky: I am sure you don’t know who this really is, but I am pitching a new religious themed TV show – "Davening with the Stars"
MrGorsky: We will pair off a yeshiva bachur with a machur, or a Bais Yakov Girls with a virtuous starlet, and watch as they struggle with the prayers and rituals of Jewish life
MrGorsky: Imagine the episode on laying teffilin
guest4: or mitzvah night
MrGorsky: You should get sponsorship for this. I’m thinking Indian generic drug makers
MrGorsky: Also, Tata Motors
MrGorsky: I’ll bet you could convince the Indians and the Japanese to advertise on your site.
YourMoralLeader: I love it
YourMoralLeader: mitzva night!
YourMoralLeader: kiddush hashem!
MrGorsky: Yes, and even your friends from your prior life could get involved as they do some shabbos mitzvahs
guest4: no shabbos shluff today?
YourMoralLeader: nope
MrGorsky: I read an article in the Sunday NY Times reporting that blogging can kill
YourMoralLeader: up till late, then chatting all afternoon
MrGorsky: Some big bloggers have keeled over from heart attacks in recent months
guest4: bryan adams
MrGorsky: All that pressure of writing all the time at minimal pay
MrGorsky: Hey, since you are into Jewish themes, why haven’t you interviewed that nice Jewish lady, Ellen Steinberg?
YourMoralLeader: who’s that?
MrGorsky: Annie Sprinkles
guest4: but does she spray?
User guest8 changed their name to BuddyHolly.
MrGorsky: I saw her once here in NY. She’s now all Goddessy and matronly
MrGorsky: She might be a davenning diva these days
guest4: no singing along t’night?
User Annie changed their name to HaGoanChaimAmalek.
guest4: you’re not feeling it yet?
HaGoanChaimAmalek: This song is depressing
guest4: where were you the summer of ’69?
guest4: 69 is not depressing
HaGoanChaimAmalek: I was marching with Jessie Jackson in Selma
YourMoralLeader: i was 3 and in aussie
YourMoralLeader: 4, why do women stay in love for years with men who treat them like crap?
guest4: taunting the kids in school
HaGoanChaimAmalek: Music is overrated
YourMoralLeader: yep
HaGoanChaimAmalek: It distracts people from more fruitful ventures
guest4: smart women leave
HaGoanChaimAmalek: It is a form of entertainment, and we are too entertained a people.
YourMoralLeader: but what’s the emotional payoff in staying with non-physical abuse?
HaGoanChaimAmalek: Personal inertia is a very, very, very powerful force.
HaGoanChaimAmalek: ANd it covers many situations
guest4: where’s the jug?
guest4: too civilized from a mug
guest4: I want to take a bite out off your shirt
guest4: I’d probably find the worm
YourMoralLeader: Is this Heaven?
guest4: don’t look down
User HaGoanChaimAmalek changed their name to SolomonShekter.
guest4: I’m always in heaven w/ you…
guest4: and emma
guest4: 3’s company
User guest11 left the room.
SolomonShekter: I think Luke would do better with a confident, accomplished, take-no-guff woman in the prime of life, her forties
YourMoralLeader: lol
SolomonShekter: A woman who knows the many weaknesses of man
SolomonShekter: And who will not accept any crap from any man
guest4: Luke doesn’t have much crap left in him
SolomonShekter: A robusto woman, Rubensesque
guest13: AWWW the Rabi is awake.
YourMoralLeader: greetings
guest13: He got fleas in his beard
guest13: He eat a sandwish
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