Monthly Archives: July 2011

Modern Tref / BET ON CRAZY

July 7, 2011 – 2:25 pm

The other day in the diamond exchange I spotted a young rotund Hassid eating potato chips. Manny, my boss, hates Raffa, since the two of us constantly discuss religious matters based on Talmudic laws. I called to him and asked, “What are you eating that tref for?” “Tref? Potato chips aren’t tref.” The 25 year-old […]

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12/31/1969

July 6, 2011 – 7:14 pm

I returned home from my July 4th vacation and turned on my iBook G4. It took a long time to boot up and announced that the date was in need of change. I clicked on ‘date and time’ to discover my computer had time-traveled back to the last day of 1969 in my absence. After […]

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2011 USA Top 100

July 2, 2011 – 10:23 am

In the 1960s the AM radio on the 4th of July weekend was dominated by the traffic fatality reports and the local radio station playing the TOP 100 hits of all-time. The Beatles seem destined to reign suprme forever. Then Led Zeppelin knocked HEY JUDE from its throne. Eternal gratitude and death to the Beatles, […]

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Golden Showers in Space

July 1, 2011 – 6:57 pm

Somehow Shirley Bassey the singer of GOLDFINGER earned the reputation for loving golden showers. Supposedly drinking piss was good for her voice. NASA has lent this myth credence by installing a water-recycling system to cleanse the the astronauts’ urine for drinking another time. “We did blind taste tests of the water,” said NASA’s Bob Bagdigian, […]

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