Ignore this post…after a bit of digging around in the archives, I found my answer!!
How ya going? Long time no see etc etc. If you feel inclined, pop over to the other mb for a hello and a catch up.
In the meantime, Happy Hanukkah to you too!! Don’t eat too many doughnuts though, especially those chocolate or custard ones from Lichtensteins. One is nice, two is nicer, three is blech. 
Cheers Kam - chances are we’ll meet up again some time soon on tram or something
[now, back to the pit …]
Geez, wouldn’t it be a sight if the Number 3 tram had a Giant Killer Menorah on the top as it tottled down Balaclava Road??
Actually, if any symbol ever was perfectly suited to the automotive sphere, it’s the Hannukah menorah. Where else can fuel efficiency be so sincerely appreciated, and with such immediate practical application to our daily lives?
The title of the thread haunts me, though: I imagine a comic book hero battling a giant menorah run amok in the City as buildings crumble behind the brightly-rendered sound-effect "SHA-MASH!!!
That Big Bloody Wooly thing would be even funnier if there were some huge Scotsman in a kilt standing behind it.
I saw another Mobile Menorah…er…Highway Hanukkiah…last night, over in Skokie (very large Jewish population, and I was in the Orthodox part of it). This time I noticed that it was on a commercial vehicle, so lots of eyes on it was probably the intent.
So it’ll probably be a few years before their ranks have swelled to the private sector around here.
Ooh, good idea. Add some little fins so it will spin!
I just saw one of those things last night. At the corner of 20th & Walnut in Philadelphia. Held on by nylon straps. And it was ugly.
Really ugly.
I mean full-on Fishbone U-G-L-Y ugly.
Harry Turtledove wrote a short story (In This Season on this idea, and it even had sort of a superhero element, too, as there was a golem character.
You’re putting a dog on the roof of your car?
Never seen one in the Bay Area.
Me too. Unfortunately, no religion seems to be exempt from having its share of idiots…
And make some Magen David rims that spin around, too. It’ll go with the big Magen David necklace complete with bottle opener to open forties of Manischewitz. Hebling will be huge, I tell you!
I spent the first 26 years of my life in Cleveland, and I never saw one there either. I guess it’s just not a Cleveland thing. I never saw wreaths strapped to the fronts of cars there either - I’m sure the ice and snow Cleveland is prone to at this time of year make car displays more difficult.
:eek: Sheepa the Hutt! :eek:
In live in a neighborhood in Saint Paul, MN with a fair sized Jewish population (Highland Park, sometimes pronounced Ch’ighland Park) and there is a guy that has one with lights rigged so he turns them on to match which night it is.
Oddly enough, I’ve seen him without it on his car. He drives like a maniac with or without it on. It’s just if you’re taking a corner like Mario Andretti, it’s more noticeable with a giant Menorah on your car.
I was visiting a friend who lives around the corner from here last weekend, and sadly, I missed any such excitement.
I gotta say, with the rash of Melbournian posters I’ve noticed lately… Dopefest Downunder? Has this been undertaken before?
I’m back in Buffalo for the holidays, and today witnessed a phenomenon that really frightened me.
Giant airblown Hanukkias.