Charoses (there's only one of it, Darcy's just spelling it with an s because she's odd*)is sweet stuff like nuts, apple and wine all mashed up together and pretending to be mortar. The exact recipe is generally a cause for serious fights between people from different families.
My mother making charoset this year: "Hmm, I'm not sure the consistency's quite right, I think it wouldn't hold the bricks together too well". Mother, it's only symbolic mortar...
Charoses is sweet stuff like nuts, apple and wine all mashed up together and pretending to be mortar.
Thanks! Mortar for the bricks of Egypt? Sounds yummy, in any case-- feel like sending some over (wait, is that even allowed)? & :-)
The exact recipe is generally a cause for serious fights between people from different families.
Ah, people and their family/local pride...tell me about it!
My mother making charoset this year: "Hmm, I'm not sure the consistency's quite right, I think it wouldn't hold the bricks together too well". Mother, it's only symbolic mortar...
::giggle::
(there's only one of it, Darcy's just spelling it with an s because she's odd*)*Oh, all right, ashkenazi
Darn my curiosity...are you Sephardic, R.? Or am I just stumbling into some in-joke between Darcy and you? Feel free to ignore this-- I am just interested and looking for distraction from my Unjustified Enrichment Law...
You're definitely allowed to clutter up my lj space. I really don't mind friends conversing with each other!
Darn my curiosity...are you Sephardic, R.? Or am I just stumbling into some in-joke between Darcy and you?
No, she's Ashkenazi too, but most people use Sephardi pronunciation. I don't only because by and large my Hebrew pronunctiation (now that's a laugh!) comes from my mother, who was in turn originally taught by a rabbi with Ashkenazi pronunciation. Except for that they swapped to Sephardi pronunciation halfway through, so my mother's pronunciation is hopelessly confused, and as a consequence, so is mine. :)
And yes, it's also just an in-joke between us. Rachel actually thinks it's cute. ;)
If anyone should apologize for cluttering up Darcy's comments, it's probably me; I'm the one that jumped on her question about charoset before she was even awake ;-)
But Darcy, there's a reason why I'm not writing my full name in these journal comments. Just because I wanted it to be obvious to you who I am, (so you wouldn't think I was some random stranger commenting on your journal) I didn't expect you to go revealing my identity to the whole world. You're the one who's supposed to be subtle, you know. *sigh*
If you were making very anonymous comments, I wouldn't have done. But anyone who knows you in the first place is going to figure out in two seconds who you are, simply from what you're writing, and for people who don't know you, knowing your first name really isn't going to hurt! If you were being subtle, I'd be subtle too. (Remember me saying that you blatantly didn't need to sign your posts with -R because I'd have known anyway that it was you?) :P
anyone who knows you in the first place is going to figure out in two seconds who you are Yes, that's the idea. I wanted any intelligent human being who knows me well to be able to figure out who I am, but I want to be anonymous to those who don't already know me.
for people who don't know you, knowing your first name really isn't going to hurt! Depends whether you talk about me to your friends who don't know me, in which case the name Rachel might actually mean something.
The other reason I was trying to be slightly anonymous was because I'm considering asking you for that code [No, I do have willpower, I... will... resist...] and I don't necessarily want people (in general, not you specifically) to connect the identity I may create in that hypothetical lj with the "R" who posts here.
Annoyingly, the picture didn't show up. Anyway, you were too late with the code, as you predicted you might be... as soon as I mentioned my lj on the G&S chatlist, it got snapped up by a mutual acquaintance.
According to her, BtVS looks like a typical horrible American soap opera. I've tried to convince her of the error of her ways, but I think any real proof would entail me sitting her down in front of the first season DVD and making her watch it, which isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future. *sigh*
(I ask you, how can it be even remotely like a typical American soap if it provides such scenes as the one on my icon??)
According to her, BtVS looks like a typical horrible American soap opera I don't think that's entirely what I said, you know. Not content with blowing my cover you have to make a fool of me in front of all your Buffy obsessed friends. Huh.
I obviously don't know what's going on in either of your Buffy-derived icons, but don't expect me to like Buffy purely on the grounds that it has lesbians in it!
I can think of several friends who would be only too willing to help you corrupt me into Buffy (half the durps crowd, for a start). For the time being I'll continue enjoying it second-hand chez Naomi-Chana (http://www.baraita.net/blog).
Anyway, I was not remotely referring to the lesbian content of the scene. (Bloody one-track-minded...) I was talking about the GREEK. The QUOTATION of SAPPHO. :P
I fail to see how a quotation from Sappho qualifies as anything other than lesbian content, regardless of how many tracks your mind has!
How annoying that the picture isn't visible to you; I checked it very carefully and it seems absolutely fine :-( You are possibly right that I need to find somewhere to host it that isn't yahoo.
Anyway, talking of willpower, I really shouldn't be awake by now, and anyway, this is a stupid way of approximating real-time communication, no? I thought E and I between us had corrupted you into instant messengers!
Thanks Mona, that's very considerate of you. I'm afraid I have yet to be corrupted into Buffy. I suspect I am due to succumb sometime soon, though I may yet escape temporarily on the grounds that I have no means of receiving TV programmes or playing DVDs or videos.
No, she's Ashkenazi too, but most people use Sephardi pronunciation. I don't only because by and large my Hebrew pronunctiation (now that's a laugh!) comes from my mother, who was in turn originally taught by a rabbi with Ashkenazi pronunciation. Except for that they swapped to Sephardi pronunciation halfway through, so my mother's pronunciation is hopelessly confused, and as a consequence, so is mine. :)
& :-P That's really quite a story!
And yes, it's also just an in-joke between us. Rachel actually thinks it's cute. ;)
Friends find the funniest things cute-- and that's a good thing. Mine always thought my German accent (nowadays with a liberal dose of British English, too) was cute, too. & ;-)
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Date: 2003-04-27 02:18 am (UTC)"Matzoh" is the bread without sourdough or yeast, right?
But...what are "charoses"?
& :-)
(Yeah, I could look it up, but then, it's more fun conversing with people.)
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Date: 2003-04-27 03:16 am (UTC)My mother making charoset this year: "Hmm, I'm not sure the consistency's quite right, I think it wouldn't hold the bricks together too well". Mother, it's only symbolic mortar...
- R
*Oh, all right, ashkenazi
Sorry, Darcy, for cluttering up your LJ space...
Date: 2003-04-27 03:48 am (UTC)Charoses is sweet stuff like nuts, apple and wine all mashed up together and pretending to be mortar.
Thanks! Mortar for the bricks of Egypt?
Sounds yummy, in any case-- feel like sending some over (wait, is that even allowed)? & :-)
The exact recipe is generally a cause for serious fights between people from different families.
Ah, people and their family/local pride...tell me about it!
My mother making charoset this year: "Hmm, I'm not sure the consistency's quite right, I think it wouldn't hold the bricks together too well". Mother, it's only symbolic mortar...
::giggle::
(there's only one of it, Darcy's just spelling it with an s because she's odd*)*Oh, all right, ashkenazi
Darn my curiosity...are you Sephardic, R.? Or am I just stumbling into some in-joke between Darcy and you? Feel free to ignore this-- I am just interested and looking for distraction from my Unjustified Enrichment Law...
Respectfully,
M.
& :-)
Re: Sorry, Darcy, for cluttering up your LJ space...
Date: 2003-04-27 10:21 am (UTC)Darn my curiosity...are you Sephardic, R.? Or am I just stumbling into some in-joke between Darcy and you?
No, she's Ashkenazi too, but most people use Sephardi pronunciation. I don't only because by and large my Hebrew pronunctiation (now that's a laugh!) comes from my mother, who was in turn originally taught by a rabbi with Ashkenazi pronunciation. Except for that they swapped to Sephardi pronunciation halfway through, so my mother's pronunciation is hopelessly confused, and as a consequence, so is mine. :)
And yes, it's also just an in-joke between us. Rachel actually thinks it's cute. ;)
Oh, and yeah, the matzoh is the unleavened bread.
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Date: 2003-04-27 11:53 am (UTC)But Darcy, there's a reason why I'm not writing my full name in these journal comments. Just because I wanted it to be obvious to you who I am, (so you wouldn't think I was some random stranger commenting on your journal) I didn't expect you to go revealing my identity to the whole world. You're the one who's supposed to be subtle, you know. *sigh*
That said, I'm pleased to meet you anyway, Mona.
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Date: 2003-04-27 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-27 03:51 pm (UTC)Yes, that's the idea. I wanted any intelligent human being who knows me well to be able to figure out who I am, but I want to be anonymous to those who don't already know me.
for people who don't know you, knowing your first name really isn't going to hurt!
Depends whether you talk about me to your friends who don't know me, in which case the name Rachel might actually mean something.
The other reason I was trying to be slightly anonymous was because I'm considering asking you for that code [No, I do have willpower, I... will... resist...] and I don't necessarily want people (in general, not you specifically) to connect the identity I may create in that hypothetical lj with the "R" who posts here.
Never mind.
Signed,
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Date: 2003-04-27 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-27 04:09 pm (UTC)Phew, what a relief. My poor abused willpower can only take so much temptation, you know!
The picture looks fine to me both in preview and when I look at your actual comments page. I wonder what the problem is.
- R
an unbroken version of my pic, in case anyone's curious
Date: 2003-05-01 09:45 am (UTC)So there you go, the anonymous initial is anonymous no longer. (That means I can't get my own lj now :-p)
- R
Indeed--
You watch Buffy, too, R.?
Check out my review of BtVS 7x19-- gee, it's way too late already...
::moseys over to her bed::
Good night!
Re: Indeed--
Date: 2003-04-27 03:11 pm (UTC)(I ask you, how can it be even remotely like a typical American soap if it provides such scenes as the one on my icon??)
Re: Indeed--
I don't think that's entirely what I said, you know. Not content with blowing my cover you have to make a fool of me in front of all your Buffy obsessed friends. Huh.
I obviously don't know what's going on in either of your Buffy-derived icons, but don't expect me to like Buffy purely on the grounds that it has lesbians in it!
I can think of several friends who would be only too willing to help you corrupt me into Buffy (half the durps crowd, for a start). For the time being I'll continue enjoying it second-hand chez Naomi-Chana (http://www.baraita.net/blog).
- R
Re: Indeed--
Date: 2003-04-27 04:09 pm (UTC)Anyway, I was not remotely referring to the lesbian content of the scene. (Bloody one-track-minded...) I was talking about the GREEK. The QUOTATION of SAPPHO. :P
Re: Indeed--
Date: 2003-04-27 04:14 pm (UTC)How annoying that the picture isn't visible to you; I checked it very carefully and it seems absolutely fine :-( You are possibly right that I need to find somewhere to host it that isn't yahoo.
Anyway, talking of willpower, I really shouldn't be awake by now, and anyway, this is a stupid way of approximating real-time communication, no? I thought E and I between us had corrupted you into instant messengers!
- R (with no pic this time)
Re: Indeed--
Date: 2003-04-27 03:53 pm (UTC)- R
Re: Sorry, Darcy, for cluttering up your LJ space...
Date: 2003-04-27 03:10 pm (UTC)& :-P That's really quite a story!
And yes, it's also just an in-joke between us. Rachel actually thinks it's cute. ;)
Friends find the funniest things cute-- and that's a good thing. Mine always thought my German accent (nowadays with a liberal dose of British English, too) was cute, too. & ;-)
Greetings to R.!!
Cheers,
M.