V'dibarta Bam

But don't feel like you have to leave until then!

All the people who haven't answered yet, I'd still love to hear what your lag baomer plans are!! (I'm a hopeless busybody)

@HodofHod Shaving off a five weeks of beard growth. Nothing quite like the pleasure of doing that.

@HahuGavra That's not very in keeping with this holiday's spirit! Have you considered en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_da_fe instead?

@jake So @msh210 tells me :)

@jake I trust you got the info?

BTW, anyone who's interested in a little Lag Ba'Omer Torah: See the second paragraph of this Hirhurim post, then see Kli Yakar to Bereshis 9:14 for an interesting explanation of that statement about the Rashbi (first paragraph of Kli Yakar in this link).

@HodofHod Yes, thank you. I hope I'll be able to stop by.

@Alex Mazal tov! He should grow up to be a talmid chacham, a y're shamayim, and a baal midos tovos.

12:14 AM

Or Chayal, for short ;)

@HodofHod Ah, yes, I forgot the Lubavitch b'racha: He should be a talmid chacham, a y're shamayim, and a lamdan.

@msh210 Amen!!

@msh210 Wait, what?

:D

@HodofHod Did I get it wrong?

Oh, shoot.

@msh210 Chassid, y're shamayim, and a lamdan.

A chasid, a y're shamayim, and a lamdan!

12:16 AM

@msh210 Bingo!

Well, he should be all five: a chasid, a y're shamayim, a lamdan, and a baal midos tovos!

@HodofHod Is that some sort of joke that I'm not getting?

@jake ...walk into a bar

@jake That's a standard Lubavitch b'racha.

@msh210 And someone who can count.

12:17 AM

Anyone know its provenance?

@jake er... and... whatever I left out.

Talmid chacham.

@jake Well, you know, there are only 3 types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't

WAF

@HodofHod I thought it was 10 - those who know binary and those who don't.

@WAF I was going to follow up with that one, but l'chorah it's a stirah!

actually, now that I think of it, the ultimate stirah is what I said before! a chassid a y're shamayim and lamdan walk into a bar? Feh!

;)

Bar joke

A bar joke is a very common and basic type of joke. The basic syntax of this type of joke is "A man walks into a bar and ". The initial perception of the joke is that a man is walking into a bar to have a drink, but this only lasts a few seconds as the punchline is quickly uttered. This joke has gained an incredible amount of variants over the years. It is often used by comedians and people telling jokes to their friends. Variants The bar joke has a large number of variations. The types of variations include puns or word plays (the man walks into a bar and pulls out a tiny piano and a 1...

@jake So a guy walks into a bar

...ouch!

two guys walk into a bar...

you'd think the second one would've seen it coming!

ok, I'll stop, sorry :D

A: Can you drink a beer (such as Miller or Budweiser) at a bar?

12:27 AM

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According to the Shulchan Aruch (YD 114:1) it is forbidden to drink beer in the same place as non-Jews do, i.e. bars. This is not a kashrus concern, but rather is forbidden out of concern that Jews will come to socialize overly much with non-Jews and come to eat with them. The Rama there writes...

Puts a little bit of a damper on the "A priest a minister and a rabbi walk into a bar..." jokes.