Thread by @JoshuaCypess

42.01/ Week Forty-two, May 1-7 2021, thread begins here.

Week 41, April 24-30 2021, below.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1386367404532436998

42.02/ I'm an NFL fan, so I don't lament these numbers, but it's a fascinating datum nonetheless. And 'watching the draft' doesn't encompass the interest people have (e.g. I couldn't watch over Shabbat, but I woulda if I coulda)

https://twitter.com/MichaelDavSmith/status/1388247686793637888?s=20

42.03/ #ReshetKeshet. I just uploaded a dvar Torah I wrote 16 years ago about this week's parsha (with connections to Avot, Ruth, and the Simpsons)

academia.edu/47938394/Wexne…

42.04/ Happy #StarWarsDay

I can actually pinpoint when I found out this was a thing: 2013
the-styx.blogspot.com/2013/05/star-w…

And, to get all of y'all in the mood, here's a clip from the movie I still call "Star Wars"

42.05/ I don't know what the #Mets are doing by firing their coaches but it's clear that our offense is ridiculously bad. Sluggers, HR kings, All-Stars are stuck on the Interstate (as we say) and something definitely needs to change.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1389434426145349635?s=20

42.06/ This is a great way to describe the situation. Numbers can lie, but not these numbers and not about something so life-and-death serious

https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1389345926272241667?s=20

42.07/ According to Jim Wexell, Buddy Johnson, the Steelers' 4th round pick, was named after "Buddy Lee" the commercial character. Mad respect.

Bio: (steelersdepot.com/2021/05/lb-bud…

Wexell:
247sports.com/nfl/pittsburgh…

Buddy:

42.08/ One last #StarWars Day tidbit: I got to live the nerd dream because when I was dating my wife she hadn't yet seen the movies! So I had the thrill of introducing them to her. First I had to see the Colin Firth "Pride and Prejudice" though. Fair is fair.

42.09/ Holy macaroni!

OK, yeah, I must see this & buy the album. I mean, the best parts of Woodstock are Ritchie Havens and Sly & the Family Stone. The *idea* that these unbelievable greats, at the height of their talent, has hitherto been unavailable?!

42.10a/ I have no idea if the #NYR front-office implosion is done out of ideology, strategy, or panic. But I long appreciated how steady they were over the past decade or so. No longer. Sigh.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1390046609082404865?s=20

42.10b/ The #NYR game last night, though, shows what happens when a society (here, the NHL) doesn't enforce rules of safety or fairness. It's ugly.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1390086488306688002?s=20

42.11/ This so-called JewishHarpersLetter is important only in that it's a dragnet for utterly unserious people.

The signatories are the usual Mad Magazine staff (ha-meivin yavin) but I'm sorry to see Rabbi Dratch & Dr. Ira Sheskin on it. #ETTD in a way

jilv.org/be-heard/

42.12/ Just found out that Chabad put up Rabbi Shmuel Gorr's book on Hebrew name meanings. He has some idiosyncratic definitions (e.g. he says Beila comes from Bilhah), but for the most part it's a good sourcebook

chabad.org/library/articl…

42.13/ This is a good point (and thread) about how to make someone share your affection for a topic (or food). Yes, sometimes it's a matter of a difference of taste, but in my experience, enthusiasm & proper presentation are the best ambassadors.

https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1389984563259232262?s=20

42.14/ It's #WillieMays' 90th birthday today. Somehow people are questioning whether the #Mets should retire his number. Um, YES! C'mon, man. Vote below:

https://twitter.com/WayneRandazzo/status/1390406966145654788?s=20

42.14b/ Mays is the oldest living MLB Hall of Famer, and possibly the best player in history. How is this a shyla? C'mon #LGM

https://twitter.com/Mets/status/1390332796548358145?s=20

42.15/ The thread below brings receipts for how silly the criticism of the #Steelers draft has been. Oafs like PFF are predictably simplistic, forcing data to fit their ideological groupthink that parrots against taking an RB in round one.

https://twitter.com/ATBPGH/status/1390010441225568259?s=03

42.16/ It's glorious when evil people self-hoist their own petards

https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1390429955423674373?s=20

42.17/ This is great (Q: "How did people write anything before computers?" A: "Wives")

https://twitter.com/bayesianboy/status/1388569482231226372?s=20

& see many of the comments, e.g.

https://twitter.com/matspike/status/1388828374949318660?s=20

https://twitter.com/LabSpecEth/status/1388916291130458115?s=20

https://twitter.com/FrancoiseGirard/status/1388692572986560514?s=20

42.17b/ And this article was referenced in the above thread:

https://twitter.com/aeryn_thrace/status/1389210889765654534?s=20

42.18/ I agree with this: toxic masculinity culture encourages/enforces just the absolute worst decision making

https://twitter.com/kpanyc/status/1389936310018846721?s=20

&

https://twitter.com/kpanyc/status/1389959627371126785?s=20

42.19/ One of these days I need to stare into the sociological Abyss that is the High School award of "Most Likely to Succeed"

42.20/ To quote Homer Simpson "And remember not to act afraid. Animals can smell fear and they don't like it!"

https://twitter.com/MikeWTrapp/status/1390401350840684545?s=20

42.21/ This is pretty far from my expected religious culture but I do have "Yom Kippur Drasha Would Be Awesome In This Thing" envy

https://twitter.com/GraceANagle/status/1390054485733613573?s=20

42.22/ I agree with this mini-thread

https://twitter.com/JakeAnbinder/status/1390312770520899588?s=20

& I appreciate this response

https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1390313744018722819?s=20

42.23a/ The #CarterBiden picture below is making the rounds & is a good lesson in wide-angle-lens-forced-perspective weirdness, and it reminds me of the great SNL routine from 1977 "The Pepsi Syndrome" or "The Amazing Colossal President" where Carter becomes 100' tall.

42.23b/ I got the video from here
facebook.com/tapewrecks/vid…
& the transcript from here
tmi.papost.org/the-pepsi-synd…
and I've attached a clip with a truly great satire about PR denials (i.e. when they say "no comment")

42.24/ This sounds right "Boomers use ellipses '...' at the end of messages the same way we put 'lol'"

https://twitter.com/Superdillin/status/1389623538966056960?s=20

42.25/ I was subjected to square dancing in HS (upstate NY, 80s). Turns out it was racist AND antisemitic, thanks to Henry "Protocols" Ford.

See: jstor.org/stable/4021535…
& where I first learned that (#3):
cracked.com/article_25495_…
OP:

https://twitter.com/lucymcaldwell/status/1390664961047805953?s=20

42.26/ I'm #4, the d100 table o'nouns

https://twitter.com/mathayles/status/1389275750553964545?s=20

42.27/ I'm proud to say that when I last crafted a college course my exams were all open-notes for these reasons

https://twitter.com/caoimhets/status/1390305147704659972?s=03

42.28/ The time is high and time to move on. We're preparing for my daughter's Bat Mitzvah - her birthday is #YomYerushalayim! - so happy trails everyone. Stay safe and #ShabbatShalom

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