Christiern Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 HAPPY HANUKKAH! To all my Jewish friends at the Big O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Happy Hanukkah indeed!!! I always remember a conversation I read between Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin; Chaplin apparently once said to Groucho, "I'm not Jewish, but I wish I was." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Thanks fellas. I am watching my Chanukkiah lit as I write this. Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 HAPPY HANUKKAH! To all my Jewish friends at the Big O Same here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Lightning Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Happy Hanukkah!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Happy Hanukkah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonym Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Happy Hanukkah people. I've recently embarked upon my genealogy and it may be so that I have some Jewish heritage on my Grandmother's side. Exciting stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Happy Hanukkah!! Aww... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 (edited) I'm not Jewish but my wife and kids are... which I guess makes me an honorary Jew. We lit the first candle last night, and tonight I hope to open my Hanukkah gift to myself: the Rhino San Francisco Sounds box. Happy Hanukkah (no matter how you spell it) to all! Edited December 5, 2007 by RDK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Happy Hanukkah!! Aww... What he said! Happy Chanuk- er, Hanuk- um...Holidays, Jewish folks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Lightning Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Happy Hanukkah (no matter how you spell it) to all! That's easy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 To all who celebrate it, Happy Hanukkah! And to all who don't Happy Hanukkah too! MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Happy Hanukkah!! I don't celebrate but when I see this, I wish I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Happy Hanukkah!! Barak! What a sweet baby!! Happy Hanukkah!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted December 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Yes, she's a beauty, Barak, and how time flies--it seems like only yesterday.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 well, as we used to say, paraphrasing you gentiles out there, "keep the HA in Hanukkah." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 In our house when we were kids our "Happy Hannukah" string of cut-out letters spelling out the phrase, which we would tack up in the front hall, somehow lost its "ann" one year. This led my little sister to celebrate the holiday then and thereafter by saying, affectionately, "Happy Hukah" (as in "Hookah"). Also, I associate Hannukah with Howard Fast's young-adult novel about the Maccabean revolt, "My Glorious Brothers" (1948), which I read several times when young. A skilled, potently sentimental writer, Fast here (as in much of his fiction) was constructing a parable that was aimed in large part at furthering the cause/vision of the American Communist Party, which Fast had joined officially in 1944. Reading that book was enlightening, because while it certainly was a ripping yarn, full of shining heroes and dark villains and IIRC a downbeat ending that was true to the historical facts (the revolt eventually met with defeat when Rome weighed in), I did begin to detect the magnetic pull of Fast's underlying propagandistic intent, without at first even knowing enough about the world at large to have a clue about what he was up to there. But I could tell that I was reading two tales at once -- the exciting tale of the Maccabean revolt and a tale about the feelings that a right-minded person was supposed to develop, nurture, and apply because of the tale that he or she was reading. This was at once very seductive -- because it gave (and was very much meant to give) one the sense that one now had a chance to possess special knowledge, special righteousness, special powers, membership in a brotherhood of the unfailingly good and true -- and very creepy, for the same reasons just mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 (edited) Howard Fast bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Fast He is, of course, the author of "Spartacus," But I didn't know that he also gave the world "Fat Albert." Edited December 7, 2007 by Larry Kart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 I always liked Citizen Tom Paine - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 also, wanted to mention, in case anybody was wondering: I'm Spartacus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 BTW, that Wikipedia bio of Howard Fast I linked to above has at least one piece of nonsense in it: "In 1952, Fast married the beautiful singing sensation, Reba McEntire." No. And if he had, he and Ms. McEntire would have wed when she was age minus-three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Doh! And the thing there about Fast and "Fat Albert" is also someone trying to be funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 gotta love Wikipedia - does it mention his appearances on the Donnie and Marie Show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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