Adieu, Dan

Steven L. Sheffield said:

"Osipow has joined ISP Sports and will work as an associate general manager
of Cal Sports Properties, focusing mainly on the sponsorship and marketing
of the University of Cal Berkeley's football and basketball programmes."

Doesn't sound like Osipow got his ass fired ... Sounds like Osipow is moving
up to play with the big boys of sports management/marketing.

http://www.ispsports.com/

My little story was written from inside Laffworld. In Laffworld,
I'm sure this is all part of the Big Con. Outside Laffworld, I
wish Osipow the best of luck.

Quoted message said:

William Asher said:

Robert Chung said:

William Asher wrote:

>Yeah, but you're Jewish.

Oh dear. I don't want to know how you know this. They just showed Louis
Malle's "Au revoir, les enfants" on TV here.

I don't. In my defense, it was funnier before I actually posted it.

Humor, like quantum physics, changes when observed.
Heisenberg (that Nazi) had some principle about this (which is
odd, since the stereotype is that Germans aren't usually known for
the subtler qualities of comedy).

Anyway, someone with a physics degree and my name is almost
certainly Jewish, and anyone with the name who isn't still
gets the 50% off deal at Ess-A-Bagel (What, you didn't know
about the 50% off deal??)

No, I didn't. I don't know your last name, and I didn't know you were
a New Yorker either (though I remember having an Ess-A-Bagel
conversation with Lafferty, who IIRC once lived in Stuyvesant Town).

Steve

Further, my middle name is Joshua -

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with a name like mine your mailbox is constantly clogging
up with junk mail from rabbinical schools.

Gotta run. Despite my joke about the nonseasonal demand
for license plates, December is actually a very busy time
around here at Zionist Occupation Government headquarters.
We can barely keep up with the demand for trinkets for the
Gentiles. We gotta move a lot of these trinkets - running an
Occupation Government isn't cheap, you know. Especially
now that Congressmen have developed a taste for Louis-Phillippe
toilets. What happened to the good old days when you could
buy a man's vote for a stripper and a box of cigars?

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

Robert Chung said:

Benjamin Joshua Weiner said:

with a name like mine your mailbox is constantly clogging
up with junk mail from rabbinical schools.

Just wait. With exogamy, that'll pass.

Never heard of that usage. I should have--my brothers and I are
three-for-three.

Steve

A woman I know was late for a

Quoted message said:

conference, and there were only two name tags left at the reception table.
The receptionist looked at my friend and said, confidently, "You must be
Deborah Cohen." My friend said, "No, I'm [mumble mumble] Chang." The Asian
woman coming in the door right behind her said, "I'm Debbie Cohen."

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

Robert Chung said:

Bob Schwartz said:

Who doesn't make assumptions based on names. And who doesn't make
assumptions based on the professions of relatives either.

Who doesn't make assumptions based on names? And who doesn't make
assumptions based on the professions of relatives either?

Hopefully Whoopee Goldberg.

Steve

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

h squared said:

yeah, it's too bad that i didn't give my obviously jewish son my last
name (halvorson)- i gave him his father's obviously jewish last name.
but my sister's daughter is half black, and her last name is halvorson
😉 and she just had a half vietnamese baby, but now she's married, dang
it. it would have amused me if both of her children had a nordic last name.

it's funny when she and i are together, because we're both blond and
northern european looking, and my son and her daughter look nothing like
us (both of them are a lot taller than we are, and they're only 12/13
years old, besides having black hair, black eyes and dark skin. they
look more related to each other than they do to us 🙂

recessive heather

I can't wait to see what my son grows into. I'm northern european
looking (12/16ths English/Irish) with a Lithuanian last name (did I
spell that right?). My wife is Indian (asian). We gave my son her
last name, since I can barely spell mine and can't tell you who on my
father's side immigrated and when. My son has fairer skin than my
wife's, darker than mine, and during the summer he had a neat olive
tan, whereas my tan is more bronze. Indians can tell he's only half
because of his thin light brown hair, with blonde highlights.

I think it's cool that he *must* have a Lithuanian Y chromosome.

It is not Laudien. He is some Jersey dude. It is me. My other email is
[email hidden] You can have that and my identity for a mere $0.02
yep 2 cents. Send a check to:

Steve Georgiou
3539 Monterey Blvd.
San Leandro, CA 94578

-Steve

It is not Laudien. He is some Jersey dude. It is me. My other email is
[email hidden] You can have that and my identity for a mere $0.02
yep 2 cents. Send a check to:

Steve Georgiou
3539 Monterey Blvd.
San Leandro, CA 94578

BTW, Rightist can be as uncomfortable as Leftists. But that is OT here
since it is Lafferty we are talking about. Righty tighty, lefty
loosey. It works in politics and screw threads.
I am rich by the standards of many. I do not cross the street to go
around a beggar. In fact, in the past, I have given them food instead
of money.

"Mark & Steven Bornfeld" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Robert Chung said:

Bob Schwartz said:

Who doesn't make assumptions based on names. And who doesn't make
assumptions based on the professions of relatives either.

Who doesn't make assumptions based on names? And who doesn't make
assumptions based on the professions of relatives either?

Hopefully Whoopee Goldberg.

Steve

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

The word meshiga appears ONE time in the Torah. That was before Hashem
created this group...

Bruce

Bruce Gilbert said:

"Mark & Steven Bornfeld" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:FsIjf.419$N%1.165@trndny07...

Quoted message said:

Robert Chung said:

Bob Schwartz wrote:

>Who doesn't make assumptions based on names. And who doesn't make
>assumptions based on the professions of relatives either.

Who doesn't make assumptions based on names? And who doesn't make
assumptions based on the professions of relatives either?

Hopefully Whoopee Goldberg.

Steve

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

The word meshiga appears ONE time in the Torah. That was before Hashem
created this group...

Bruce

I've never seen a Yiddish Torah.

Steve

Quoted message said:

Michael Press said:

Galton's classic paper on regression towards mediocrity in
hereditary stature was offered up in another thread today.
Why do we still have tall people and short people?

God likes to play Whackamole with the babies before sending them down.
So what we're seeing here is statisitcal proof that there is a God.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Michael Press said:

Galton's classic paper on regression towards mediocrity in
hereditary stature was offered up in another thread today.
Why do we still have tall people and short people?

Because if the expectation value wasn't attracted by the population mean, variance
would result in a random walk with each generation. You'd have
the population variance monotonically increasing from one generation to the next.

I'm not going to correlate on the effect of interracial breeding on the modal nature
of "race". Too hot a topic to address without any real knowledge of the subject 🙂.

Dan

Michael Press said:

Galton's classic paper on regression towards mediocrity in
hereditary stature was offered up in another thread today.
Why do we still have tall people and short people?

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.stat.consult/msg/2286f2770fc73dfd

Michael Press said:

Galton's classic paper on regression towards mediocrity in
hereditary stature was offered up in another thread today.
Why do we still have tall people and short people?

Because it works the other way too (from sons to fathers).

--
E. Dronkert

Robert Chung said:

Michael Press said:

Galton's classic paper on regression towards mediocrity in
hereditary stature was offered up in another thread today.
Why do we still have tall people and short people?

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.stat.consult/msg/2286f2770fc73dfd

You're both overthinking this. Mechanistic explanations for
the existence of tall people and short people are incomplete:
everybody knows that short people got no reason.

Kurgan Gringioni said:

If the entire world mixes for another 1000 generations, perhaps there
will be no more "races" but everyone won't look like they are the same
color any more than dogs of the "mutt" persuasion all look like they're
from the same breed.

the quote was meant to be humorous. and besides, let's not be silly-
even if it did work and everybody ended up the same color, i have
complete faith that people would still find a way to discriminate
against some other kind of perceived difference in others.

heather

h squared said:

my poor mom. for some reason she got married when she was 19

I have a friend whose parents got married when they were teenagers. One
evening when she was a teen herself and in the kitchen alone with her
mother, she asked "Mom, did daddy have hair on his back when you married
him?" Her mother froze for a second, put down the dish she was holding,
turned to look her daughter in the eyes and, with heartbreak in her voice,
said "No."

That's when my friend decided not to marry young.

Robert Chung said:

I have a friend whose parents got married when they were teenagers. One
evening when she was a teen herself and in the kitchen alone with her
mother, she asked "Mom, did daddy have hair on his back when you married
him?" Her mother froze for a second, put down the dish she was holding,
turned to look her daughter in the eyes and, with heartbreak in her voice,
said "No."

That's when my friend decided not to marry young.

oh dear, i'm torn between laugh-ol and cry-ol reading this. you tell
good stories, robert.

h

h squared said:

oh dear, i'm torn between laugh-ol and cry-ol reading this. you tell
good stories, robert.

Could've been worse. Could've been a story about a guy asking his dad
about his mom.

I sometimes wonder whether I'd ever have heard that story were my back
hairy.

Robert Chung says...

Quoted message said:

h squared wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

oh dear, i'm torn between laugh-ol and cry-ol reading this. you tell
good stories, robert.

Quoted message said:

Could've been worse. Could've been a story about a guy asking his dad
about his mom.

Quoted message said:

I sometimes wonder whether I'd ever have heard that story were my back
hairy.

Don't give up hope. Some people don't really go bald - they just redistribute
their hair supply. All kinds of interesting things happen in the later years.

Mark & Steven Bornfeld said:

[email hidden] wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Anyway, someone with a physics degree and my name is almost
certainly Jewish, and anyone with the name who isn't still
gets the 50% off deal at Ess-A-Bagel (What, you didn't know
about the 50% off deal??)

No, I didn't. I don't know your last name, and I didn't know you were
a New Yorker either (though I remember having an Ess-A-Bagel
conversation with Lafferty, who IIRC once lived in Stuyvesant Town).

Google changed something and started leaving my name
off posts, and I never fixed it, due to (1) laziness and (2) fear
of university administrators with enough brain cells to search
Google (groups) but not enough to have a sense of humor
about rbr. And I'm not a real New Yorker, though my
whole family is from there. The last time I was at Ess-A-Bagel
was several years ago when I took a relative to an operation
at Beth Israel. Actually, there are some who claim that the
Ess-A bagel is too large and fluffy, or at least not dense enough.
I bought bagels in Princeton today, which seems like a near
incommensurability, but the bagels are pretty OK.