Two bloggers and one commentator were spotted, having lunch at Bunch O' Bagels, on Friday, around noon.
Don't get your panties in a twist, they weren't having lunch together.
Cheerio and Farbengen, having encountered each other in the hallowed halls of 770, decided to traipse across town for respective cups of coffee and juice. And where else does one go for such things than Buncho's? Imagine their surprise when upon entering, they bespied an upstanding member of Morristown's rabbinical seminary - none other than our very own TRS!
The blue pantsed gentleman was dining with a group of people, among them, two very cute girls. (Insiders later informed us that those two girls were in fact the nieces featured in a recent Chanukah post on therealshliach.blogspot.com.)
There has been speculation that this is merely the preliminary stage of a bloggers' convention that would be held in Bunch O' Bagels in a few months' time.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Reporting Live From Crown Heights
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(Note: The following is to be read in a pretentious brit accent for full effect.)
I say, such scandelous occassions as these must be reported indeed. I say, young folk these days must be kept indoors at all times. Especially when its this cold, they'll catch a chill, heaven forefend!
And now I edit: (see what happens when one writes in a flurry of words, all grammar is left in the dust.)
Scandelous becomes scandalous
Occassions becomes occasions
its becomes it's
Ironically pretentious is spelled correctly.
I'd like to make it very clear that I had no idea at the time that I was identified. I thought blogging was supposed to be anonymous!
we were being discreet. next time, would you like us to walk up to you in front of your family and ask, "are you trs?"
blogging is only anonymous if you choose to make an effort, and even then, it only lasts until your friends get on there and make personal comments. you linked us to your sister's wedding pictures, dude. you're not really making the effort.
I was joking. Hello, I'm the only Lubavitch Bochur Blogger who puts his picture on his blog, I know I'm not anonymous. And thank you for saying nothing, I would have never heard the end of it.
really? mordechai has his picture up, too. not so unique after all, eh?
and i'd like to hear you describe the conversation that would have ensued HAD we come up to you...
Mordechai does not have his picture up. Give me a break.
I honestly don't recall. This is like six months or more ago.
And it's so hard to say what the conversation would be like. I really haven't spoken with either of you, and therefore I have no idea. This reminds me of an exercise I did in high-school English (tutoring) when my teacher had me write a descriptive piece about something I know nothing about but that she was familiar with, a French Cafe, and she did the same with a Shul. The results demonstrated conclusively that if you have no idea, then don't bother, because you have no chance.
Still...if you came over in that situation, I would probably grunt some monosyllables and pray for the end of the world. If I was alone in Buncho, and no one I knew was there, then I'd happily conversate.
mordechai has pictures of himself on his blog. many, many pictures.
six months ago?
no, no, no... what would the conversation with your FAMILY have been like?
and really, if no one you knew was there, you would have conversated? i'm hypothetically impressed. i didn't know you had it in you.
There's a big difference between having photos in posts, as both Mordechai and Nemo have, and having one by your name.
Yeah. When I first discovered your gender.
Horrible. Not in a "you're so bad, TRS" way, but in a merciless teasing way.
What does this mean "hypothetically impressed"? And yeah, I have it in me. The thing to do is to allow me thirty seconds to process the fact that a girl is talking to me (which has never happened before-at least, they've never stuck around past the half-minute mark), and after that I'm good to go. I have a big mouth, I'll talk to anyone.
true.
so where did nemo get this picture?
hypothetically, because it hasn't happened yet. when it happens, i'll be impressed.
great. so when we have the convention, we'll just know to give you 30 seconds to warm up. we just have to convince LE7 and Nemo to come to Crown Heights.
Beats me, Claude.
Ahh. I'm in town most every weekend, just keep your eyes open for me. I'd do the same, but honestly, I don't have the faintest clue what you look like, and I wouldn't stop a girl anyway, even if I did.
Nemo is relatively close, he has no excuses.
wait, you still don't have the faintest clue what i look like? i mean, cmon, not even the faintest?
Merely the faintest of impressions. You and farbrengen may have been checking my table out, but I was keeping my eyes on my breakfast special.
you were at Buncho's (i'm assuming on someone else's tab), and you wasted it on the breakfast special?!!?
What's wrong with the breakfast special? What else should I have gotten? Besides, it may be someone else's tab, but I'm not a jerk. And besides that besides, you ever heard squandering an inheritance before you've even gotten it?
i just - you're at Buncho's. you can get a variety of bagel combos and still pay under 5 dollars. and you choose the egg/lame israeli salad/bagel with butter?? when you could have melted american cheese with tuna and spicy house sauce?
That's what my sister had. It didn't look too appealing. I don't get this-first you criticize my clothing, then my food? What's next?
your hair? it's the usual follow up.
ooh, i think i like your sister's taste.
OMG, American cheese? You are warped.
What's wrong with my hair? Sure, it's long and all...I only get three haircuts a year, and I'm due for one in about 3 weeks.
Which sister?
And yeah, I agree with nemo, American cheese is nasty.
TRS and Cheerio: The word is converse/ conversed. NOT conversate. I'm ashamed of you two!
And I am glad that I wasn't there, since Cheerio might have recognized me, and then dragged me into it...personally, I'd have rather been talking to someone other than TRS, if I must talk to a boy. :P
TRS- you didn't put your picture up for shidduch purposes, did you? Because perhaps I have a girl for you (not me, don't worry).
Agav, who is the farbrengen dude that you were with?
American cheese is nasty, but Israeli cheese isn't. Come over here and buy some...
Re: conversate: one of the joys of the english language is its ability to be many things to many people.
Re: conversating: what's wrong with talking to me in particular?
Re: picture: I have the picture up because my sister said, "I took a great picture of you over vacation, put it on your blog!" So I did.
Re: Shidduch: A. Right now I'm in the middle of smicha. B. You have anyone, tell my mother, not me. She takes care of these things.
Re: conversating: Nothing. There is something wrong with making up a word that does not exist instead of using a word that does.
Re: picture: Ah, I see.
Re: shidduchim: Yeah, that's my line, too. Most guys stop smicha to get married. You think you should be an exception?!
Re: conversating: the joy is in the innovation. If you don't get that, then you're obviously not proud to be an American, where at least you know you're free, and you're proud...
Re: smicha/shidduch: au contraire! The vast (98.5%) of guys in smicha program/pogroms finish smicha before getting hitched. Most guys in 770 also do, though the number is significantly lower in 770 because it takes so long to do smicha there (for a lot of guys).
Re: conversating: I see. I guess I'm not a good enough American. Though being a good enough Jew bothers me a touch more.
Re: smicha/shidduchim: (why do I always read smicha as simcha?!) I see. I guess all the guys I've spoken to were learning in 770. Or the exceptions. Not quite sure which....
Re: conversating: I suppose I'll have to give you a pass on this one then.
Re: smicha: I suppose so.
Re: conversating: What does that mean?
Re: smicha: Such apathetic agreement...I'll have to report you...
re: passing: meaning, I'll let your behaviour slide this time. But if I ever catch you at it again...
Re: apathetic agreement: to whom?
re: passing: Thanks for letting it slide.
re: apathetic agreement: you to me.
You'll report me to yourself? Shades of schizophrenia or something?
Ah, no. I thought you were asking who was agreeing apathetically to whom. I'll report you to the secret defense.
Who is this secret defense of which you type? And don't tell me you can't tell me because it's a secret. Thank you.
But if I told you, it wouldn't be a secret. Okay, okay. Try throwing snow on me and secret defense will dump ten times more on you!
Some things don't deserve responses.
Heh. You're just jealous that you don't know the identity of the secret defense.
(See my last comment)
But you're still commenting.
I like people to know that I have read their responses and deemed it beneath my dignity to respond in kind.
American cheese doesn't refer to its country of origin, it is a style of processed cheese, which we don't like.
America happens to produce some fine cheeses.
Just ask those from America's dairyland...California...
TRS- I see.
Nemo- I understand, but I was referring to the same thing as you.
And what, pray tell, is "Israeli cheese?"
Most of the stuff they make in Israel. And it tastes good.
You make no sense then. You're comparing apples and oranges when you say: American cheese is nasty, but Israeli cheese isn't.
I never make sense.
Holmes - I love you. Anyways.
Who is Holmes? As in Sherlock Holmes? Which of us is he?
Holmes is Sarabonne. I am Watson.
Ah Watson, indeed, indeed. Oh the adventures we had!
Now if only I could find my tobacco pipe.
chanie -- i know who you are?
also - you have some serious catching up to do. whew. such as - farbrengen is a girl, whom I was having lunch with. never take TRS seriously, except when he's serious. none of us are looking for shidduchim, but we talk about it incessantly anyway.
enjoy your future reading!
-TRS: I do too have my picture up there - it just happens to be I use a stylized version of it - in the path of our anointed savior Barack H. Obama!
American cheese i.e. processed cheese, is not cheese. It is rubberized milk between two pieces of plastic - it should be banned.
-Channie Most bochurim do not look into shidduchim in the middle of smicha . . .
Moteel: Did Sefira make your picture in Israel or am I imagining this?
-LE7: I believe it was in Montreal
Really.... hmm what was it that I remember her doing? Maybe that's a question for her.
She made a lot of cartoons-that I can recall. As for the whole American chesse scandal, I encourage all of you to join the revolution, collect as much of the substance you can and burn it. I believe you shall find it is quite reminiscent of burning tires.
Besides, mozzarella tastes better and if you say it with an accent, it sounds more authentic too.
She also made a lot of "CLEAN UP OR SEFIRA WILL MAKE YOU CRY" signs.
Ah yes, I saw pictures of those. They were beautifully rendered.
Yes, pleasing to the eye and fear inspiring in the heart.
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