Sam Sharp on How Things Happen
The lecture was given by my friend Tibor on one of his favourite subjects, free will and determinism. Quick synopsis: If something can happen then it will. If it cannot then it won?t. If it didn?t it couldn?t have. If two things can happen the one requiring the expenditure of less energy will happen first?. and much more. There. Now you almost didn?t have to be there. It was actually great fun.
Lindsay Leveen on Monica Lewinsky
BIRTHDAY REMINDER
This week we celebrate a special birthday.
Monica Lewinsky turns 44.
Can you believe it?
It seems like only yesterday she was crawling around the White House on her hands and knees, putting everything in her mouth.
They grow up so fast, don?t they? ?..
Lindsay Leveen on Connection Between Leveen and Davidoff
I was looking at the B days and realised that night Ash was born my folks were stuupping. I am the baby in the group and therefore you all need to take care of me in my old age. Good night to all
Lindsay Leveen ? on Sylvia PAss
There was news on CNN today that a VW Van that was stollen 35 years ago was recovered yesterday and it was in working order and worth $27,000 now. I know Terry has such a van. Do you guys remember being stuck behind such a van going up Sylvia?s Pass? I also rmember the road sign on Silvia?s that said no animal drawn vehicles. Some gatis must have tried to pull his ox wagon over Silvia?s once and got stuck. I just had a memory of the ox wagon with water melons and spanspeks being pulled and parked at Bezedenhout Park. Here is the link about the VW microbus on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/california.stolen.vw/index.html
On Mrs Infeld
Davidoff
4 foot and a penny high and the same distance wide with a rotund face, strawberry blond hair, high heel shoes and round
gold rimmed glasses ?Ul you or ont you shut up!?
On Mr Allenby
Steve Selesnick
In 1982 I went back to JHB for 5 days. Whilst I was there an uncle of mine died. He had requested that when he dies he wants to be cremated as he didn?t think he would get 6 friends to come and carry the coffin.
The man who officiated at Temple Israel was Mr Allanby our primary school teacher.
After the service I went up to him, said I did not think he would remember me, he didn?t, but told him I lived in Toronto. He mentioned he had a very good friend living there who I actually knew. A few months later I met with his friend who mentioned in a letter that he had recently met THIS MIDDLE AGED MAN. That was me. 27 years ago. Shit man I was 29 and he called me a middle aged man.
But he was a sweet and gentle teacher from what I remember.
On Colonoscopy
Steve Selesnick
actually , had a colonoscopy the other day and the doctor said they found something turns out i had my head up my ass. seems like nothing changes.. wouldlove to hear fromyou all. (Selesnick)
On the First Day of School
I can see myself, a small skinny kid lined up in single file outside the classroom of my new teacher at my new school. Mrs Meduniou (spelling?) looked very smart & kind with her short cropped blond hair. I?m standing in the front of the line, the new kid on the block, the little ?gattis? from Sannieshof, short back and sides haircut, grey shorts white shirt & brand spanking new black shoes ( I never wore shoes at Sannieshof (primary) laerskool ,wanting to impress and be a good boy ?cause that is what mom & dad would expect from their 9 year old son on his first day at the new Jewish school, many miles away from home.
The bell rings and all the children in the playground rush off to line up outside their respective class rooms. And then some kid decides to stand in front of me in the front of the line. This is not good. What happens next, I believe defined who I was for a number of years ? I politely asked the boy to move and as I recall he refused so I smacked him in the eye, just one punch. That kid was Mervyn Woolf ? Later we became fairly good friends / Mervyn do you recall this incident? / Mervyn lived right across from the shool ? probably 12 steps from the school to his front door & me my home was 300+ miles away ? I was not taking shit from anyone!
The reprimand I received from the teacher seemed harsh and I could not stop crying ? that was the 1st and definitely not th last time I got in trouble at both primary & high school years.
High School -1st day
I do not recall much of that day except that Milton Levine and I landed in the Bosses office for 6 o? the best / later that day back at the hostel Meish Zimmerman called us in to his office and explained that since we got flapped by Mr Sandler , he too would land him mark and proceeded to give me 5 more -(as he said we?ll make it one short of a dozen, not a bad start to the year, Robbie!)
In those days I was always in shit ? only a matter of depth.
Me thinks of the rugby song +? Balls to Mr Sandler the dirty old shit
He keeps us a waiting while he?s masturbating?..
We had good reason to sing that song with gusto?
On Hiding from Ms Berman
Avrille Gruebel
?I do remember in Form 3 never attending Math classes and hiding in the bathroom with Heather Miodownick. One of us would sit on the top of the toilet and the other on the seat so if Ms Berman came in she would only see one set of feet.?
On the South African Army
Wasilewsky
I am proud to report that I managed to go through army training without firing a bullet!
On Antisemitism in the Army
Alan Kaplan
In the tenth month, one cold winter morning, one of the Afrikaans soldiers called me a ?bloody Jew? and stabbed me in my hand. My immediate reaction was to pull the knife out of my hand and stab his hand, which I did successfully and left attached to the table. After this ? respect for me as an observant Jew was born.
Steve Selesnick
About 14 years ago Ashley and Naomi Davidoff had a son. Now, I have known Ashley since primary school and my parents knew him very well too. I, of course, flew down to Boston for the Bris. Very exciting moment and Ashley decided to do the circumcision , being a doctor and all. On my return to Toronto my mother enquired how was Ashley, Naomi and the baby. I replied ?incredible, and Mom, Ashley did the Bris himself.? To which my mother said ?What, he did all the cooking??
Love that story and one I won?t forget.
Yup, your mom too was a lovely, elegant lady Ash. Remember when kim told her she had bugs bunny teeth and she cried out ?see Bradley, I?ve been telling you that for years now.?
Lindsay Leveen ? Body Fat, Tennis Balls and the Word Pap
yeah lag out loud. Max should be called Min. Bet you he has the lowest body fat of us all and he always bikes to work so he has the
lowest carbon footprint
yeah Max is Min He bikes to work and has zero body fat. he truly is to the power of zero my new year?s resolution is to be more like Max
and get on my bike. That will be a good lag and I may have to buy a tennis ball to put under the saddle like some of the africans did years
ago. Michelle entropy accounts for why tennis balls go pap. I love the word pap pap goes the weasel as the air escapes out of him. good
shabbos
Steve Selesnick ? Kumbaya
A call to the Toronto group (from the Boston group) was limited because of the noise. We told Steve that we were holding hands and singing Kumbaya. Steve said that they were not holding hands but were f?.ing Lots of laughter in the background!
Clive Evian on Humility
Davidoff commenting on Clives picture ?Looks great. Is that a kippah for agnostics or is it a hat of color? ?
Evian? ?sure it?s a Kippah to help to keep remind me there is something bigger than me (its not difficult ? I am only about 5?4?!!)?
First Sleepover
(Jeff Miller)
A note of trivia for the website. I think I can claim to be the first of our year to have a sleepover with a classmate! Ralph Judah and I shared the maternity ward at the Marymount when we were born. His mom?s maid made the best lunch when we went to play after school- sweetcorn and fried eggs HOW THE HELL DO I REMEMBER THIS?
On Israel and Hamas
Lindsay Leveen
An Israeli woman biochemists shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry today. The very same day Hamas banned women from riding motor bikes. This seems like an education gap to me???
On Green
Lindsay leveen
?You can fuel some of the people some of the time but you can?t fuel all the people all of the time?
?Be green when all are fearful and be fearful when all are green?
?Some are green others are gangrene?
?Words speak of your noble intentions but actions are greener than words?
?Soon all the icebergs will be lettuce?
?Fools sell fool cells?
?Expensive weak batteries killed the electric car?
?The convenient truth is Alfalfa won the PowerPoint piece prize?
?When I die I want a thousand Hummers to drive over my grave, I want to be buried at sea?
?Stop the car I want to get off so I can discover what kind of fuel am I?
On Condoms
Lindsay Leveen
Tevis et al thanks for the posts and making the points you all make. We as teenagers kind of lived in a world where most of the western world felt some sorrow or guilt. Now the world is numb and dumb. The population explosion in Yemen, Iran, Gaza and the complete lack of resources and opportunity make people fanatical. The Russians had a brand on condoms called ?little red riding hood? time to market that stuff in Iran. It was funny that the Brits called their condoms French Letters and the French call theirs Capot Anglais (English caps). I would not mind if the Iranians called theirs yamulkas as long as they used them. Actually on a serious note the only way around this is birth control else we wind up with death control.
On Breishit
Lindsay Leveen