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Tsuris at Brandeis: Orthodox students say school ad calling itself 'anything but Orthodox' is some chazzerai
By adamg on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 8:55am
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports Orthodox students at the heavily Jewish Waltham university are verklempt at what they consider a punch in the kishkes, a furshlugginer two-page school ad, in the Sunday Times magazine, no less, headlined "Brandeis was founded by Jews. But it's anything but orthodox." The school responded that if only the students would read the whole megillah, they'd see it was just a light-hearted attempt to show the school's roots come from the totality of the Jewish mishpocha.
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Yeah. but can their sports teams match this cheer?
We play football,
We play soccer,
We keep matzo in our locker,
Y - E - S - H - I - V - A,
Yeshiva, Yeshiva,
Yay! Yay! Yay!
No, but ...
As an alumnus, I'm proud of the fact the Brandeis football team has gone undefeated since 1960.
BU
Has BU beat by 37 years.
Furshlugginer
I have long wondered whether that word is real Yiddish or if it came from the editorial desk of 1970s Mad Magazine. Which threw a lot of real Yiddish into the mix, but also made up words as needed.
How dare you
What a cockamamie accusation.
Seriously, just complete
Seriously, just complete mishegoss.
as the Stooges did from time to time
when muttering to each other
That Iggy Pop is such a mensch
I always wondered what he and the Asheton brothers were muttering to each other off mic during their concerts.
Jimmy Osterberg asked Moe Howard
if he could call his band "The Stooges".
Moe said "sure, but don't use _Three_ Stooges, that's our trademark."
Maybe it's related to "farshtinkina"?
My grandmother loved that one!
Neither.
1950s Mad. Harvey Kurtzman era.
And "furschlugginer" as "very big" comes from Donald Knuth's "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures". (What ever happened to that boy?)
He did OK for himself, went
He did OK for himself, went into printing if I understand correctly.
He became very successful
He invented TeX, a mathematical typesetting program, wrote extensive computer algorithms that saved a lot of computer time, and sent $2.56 checks to people who found errors in his books.
Technically Knuth invented
Technically Knuth invented TeX, which Leslie Lamport (and many others presumably) expanded into LaTeX.
Thanks
I thought LaTeX came first, but you're right, it was TeX that came first. I've updated my post.
But he'll be remembered forever
for something he wrote at age 15.
Seriously
it was Knuth's Westinghouse Science Prize entry, and he got "honorable mention".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdKV_ezbFp8
delightful writing!
delightful writing!
Also in the NYT magazine last week
A crossword with what I believe has "tsuris" as an answer, which I didn't know until I read this headline.
Adam, I tip my yarmulke to you
That's exactly how my parents would have explained the story.
Sounds like a bunch of mishegas
To me.
Personally I think a little
Personally I think a little self-deprecating humor is a very Jewish thing indeed. But that's just my opinion. Let's get two other Jewish people in here and review the four opinions we'll then have available.
Five opinions.
There's God's too. (But he's wrong.)