I agree with you completely on this.
Did you now? :dubious: Well, I missed you too.
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I am against the use of the off button. Change the channel. Watch something that has been recorded on any of the fine media available. Certainly, you don’t have to watch a program you dislike. BUT, the off button should only be used if you are- leaving the house, going to take a shower, or immediately prior to falling asleep. It’s important to leave the television on so that the electron love guns fill your house with healthy cathode rays.
A dear friend of mine who keeps kosher and whose father was a leading kosher authority in Miami for many years says that it’s “Fear of G-d Factor – if you fear Him, you can’t play!”
She’s got a point. I think just about every possible rule of kashrus was violated with the rat frappe.
TeaElle
I’ve said that many times about Fear Factor and Survivor. The fact that I have never heard of an Orthodox Jew suing them for discrimination, or demanding that the shows be made kosher makes me deeply proud. They can discriminate against us all they want. If we feel the need to eat something unspeakably disgusting, we’ve got borscht, shav, herring in cream sauce, and chicken soup just the way bubby made it- with matzoh balls and chicken feet.
Snap!
“Gross Factor” is exactly what i’ve been calling it since it started.
Apparently, “just about anything” includes filing ridiculous lawsuits.
What’s wrong with borscht? 
What’s wrong with herring in cream sauce?
And chicken soup with chicken feet and matzoh balls sounds good.
Borscht- I hate beets. I always have. Big beet chunks floating in beet juice, whether served hot, cold, with sour cream, with meat or any combination of the above is one of the foulest foodstuffs I’ve ever encountered.
Herring in cream sauce- It’s the visual that does it for me here.
Chicken soup with feet- I’ve neved had the chance to try it. I suspect it may actually be good. But, I think the average American finds the idea of feet in their soup disgusting.
Y’know, I have an idea for a show- Goy Factor. We’d find extremely gentile contestants and have them eat Jewish food.
Just curious… is a paid interview situation different from a paid interview?
Reminds me of the TV weatherman I once saw who cautioned motorists to be careful when driving “during night-time conditions”.
And don’t forget the gefilte fish! I’ve talked to a number of converts to Judaism who don’t like gefilte fish. One described it as being like cat food.
(Funny enough, the Neville kitties agree- they think gefilte fish is very tasty cat food)
My family version of borscht (Mennonite-style) is not made with beets. It’s more like a vegetable soup, with cabbage and summer sausage and dill and all kinds of garden vegetables in it.
FeatherLou I’ve never heard borscht used to mean that before. Then again, I don’t really travel in Mennonite circles.
Band name!
I suspect that borscht is basically the Eastern European word for “soup with stuff in it”. My families versions of borscht are cumst borscht and zumma borscht - cabbage borscht and summer (sausage) borscht.
It’s from an old Russian word for “cow parsnip”.
Sounds more like a no-class action lawsuit.
Well, close enough. 
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I would like to point out that the fact that the initial complaint is handwritten isn’t as big of a deal as some of y’all are making it out to be. For those of you who have never filed a lawsuit on your own (not involving a lawyer), you go to your local federal courthouse and pick up a packet containing all the necessary paperwork. They’re not available (at least, in the areas I know of) on computer, so unless you have/have access to a typewriter, you have to hand-write all the necessary information. The initial complaint I filed in my lawsuit was handwritten, and when I hired a lawyer they re-did it in lawyerspeak on their computers. But just because the initial complaint was handwritten doesn’t make my lawsuit any less viable or important (in fact, it remains an admissible document in the case)… it just means I didn’t have a lawyer before filing suit.
So while the guy in the OP is a total pinhead who should not only have his suit dismissed but should also be forced to ingest rat smoothies on national television, there really isn’t a reason to make a big deal out of the handwritten thing. Not when there’s plenty of material ljust from the article.
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If you’ve tried them, you couldn’t possibly forget.
I’ll take a good haggis any day. Speaking from experience, there’s nothing as good as a good haggis, and nothing as bad as a bad one.