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Well, I like to make this neat Pecha and Oran combination! It's really sweet and the berries just kind of melt in your mouth. Combine it with a light, flaky crust, and a little bit of Qualot berry to add some zing... mmmm.

For Laura: What is it about the Mass Effect series that made you fall in love with it? I hear about it every now and then and it seems like it'd be fun (assuming my seven-year-old laptop could handle it), and IIRC you said if it were a person you'd want to bear its kids at one point...

For Danny: Do you ever miss being a field agent? Have you stayed in touch with Laura or Xericka (sp?) since your transfer?

((Gonna take this round to heal myself, while we've got the door blocked.))

On a scale of 1-10, I'd put the protein packs we had at about three. Everything in there was artificial, and you could taste the degradable tin. The bread squares weren't too bad, though. They were a right sight better than the rocks they serve in the cafeteria here, anyway.

And I could make an excellent stew from the firliggs on Tamara, before the absence of a sun killed what little was living there in the first place. Kept the meat cold, though.

"If it does not trouble you unduly, could you return that longsword to my bodyguard?"

...my inner teacher is going 'yes!' while my inner sociologist is going '...yes, but...'

Yeah, my guess is that it's more widespread to use menorah as the term among anyone who's non-Orthodox and--

*looks it up*

...huh, Chabad compromises by calling it "the Chanukah menorah (also known as a chanukiah)." That at least has the distinction...

Tablet Magazine (http://jewcy.com/jewish-religion-and-beliefs/smackdownmenorahvs_chanukiah) adds "The name "chanukkiah" was given only in the end of the nineteenth century in Jerusalem by the wife of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the revivor of the Hebrew language," which is cool to know. They also mention that today 'chanukiah' is widespread in Israel. So I'm guessing that in the Talmud, if it's called anything, it's either a menorah or a Chanukah menorah. So...I'm now guessing that the use of 'menorah' to mean 'chanukiah' came into American English from *Yiddish* (where it's spelled the same way as in Hebrew but pronounced 'meh-NOY-reh'), and gained more momentum than the Hebrew word did--learning modern Hebrew was on the rise in the 1900s, but in the early days it still wasn't *that* present. Also, the first major wave of Jewish immigration to American started around 1880, probably before the word 'chanukiah' even existed, so it may've made its way into Jewish English around that point and was never replaced.

Either way. While a speaker of modern Hebrew is definitely going to go 'uh...a menorah is something else?' an English speaker is pretty likely to go 'menorah!' And I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if you prefer the Yiddish connection, go for menorah, and if you prefer modern Hebrew and not confusing Israelis, go for chanukiah. And I'll just be the historian-ish person over in the corner.

As for this specific case, I kind of like the idea of people getting to learn something new :)

~DF

:P

(giant inflatable dreidel is real. I don't own it, but I got to toss one around for a while yesterday. It's pretty fun.)

~DF

I think I'd heard that once, but I definitely didn't internalize it. Awesome! I like this lady. She's a good 'un.

I think he also does one of their versions of the Ring Verse--my favorite version, obviously. That man was awesome. Wait, and doesn't he also do one of Treebeard's songs? I think he does.

...I really need to convert some of their songs to ocarina tabs. I already did part of their version of the Lay, and it wasn't half bad.

Also, I'm expanding my end of the bargain a bit. Provided I've learned enough Quenya by the time the outcome of the bet is revealed (which I almost certainly will have), I will translate any Tolkien poem/song into Quenya, and then sing/read it, your preference. Linguistics, ftw!

-Alleb

And she has her pet electronics/gadget projects, too - with obviously mixed results.

She is also known for having accidentally caused way too many sentient consoles.

I don't think I've ever heard an American Jew talk about a chanukiah (and I have known a fair number; I might ask!), but unless some of them turn up on the Board, I will bow to the wishes of the local population. I don't mind making people look things up occasionally. {= )

~Neshomeh

White Cards
Sloppy, drunken mistletoe-inspired makeouts.
The Ghost of Christmas In July.
An eggnog-and-Bleepka enema.
The annual Bad Slash Cheesecake/Beefcake Advent Calendar photo shoot.
Sexy Santa Claus cosplay.
Masturbating at the thought of going on a mission.
Tiny Tim-chan.
Using Mary Sue guts instead of tree ornaments.
Getting a blowjob when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve.

Black Cards
My OTP is Santa Claus/_______.
_______ will be in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the PPC holiday play this year.
A _______? You'll shoot your eye out!
What's the secret ingredient in my Christmas cookies? Why, it's _______!

In essence. But what you advocate is not adherence to rules; it is nothing more than mindless obedience to the worse things a demented bureaucracy could dream up.

-The Librarian

(PS: Notary, a good bureaucrat knows when to break the rules.
-Des)

Black:
-"Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel! I made you out of _____."

~DF

White cards:
- Falchion's molted down feathers being used as tinsel.
- Onscreen disembowelment.
- A paleontologically accurate Quetzalcoatlus.
- Sarah Squall getting her cape snagged on a jet turbine.
- Cupid Carmine pleasuring himself with a miniature Christmas tree.
- Backslash in an ugly holiday sweater.
- Impale a Suvian with a giant Christmas ornaments.
- Jelsa.
- Screenwriters who can't do math.
- Tickle torture.
- Violet Parr being turned into a Tyrannosaurus rex.
- Don't. Period.
- Feathered raptors with laser cannons on their heads.
- Squid Icarus.
- RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
- Lapis' poker friends.
- Suta and Tianlong having giant reptilian intercourse.
- Leaving the fountain without a relic.
- Fafnir's Winter Wonderland.
- In-game purchases.
- Being one-shot by Loki's ultimate.
- Take a Header to the crotch.
- Evangeline von Lilith.
- Dora the Explorer sprouting tentacles from every single orifice.
- Dumb Ways to Die.
- Old Man Henderson.

Black cards:
- The first trend of badfic that's such a pain to me:
- Skinny people can do this for you!
- What does the latest movie adaptation of a video game include?
- One of Falchion's previous incarnations was __.
- What did __ bring to this year's Gift Exchange? __.
- Who did Lapis bring in to save Chakkik from _? _.
- "MUCKLE DAMRED CULTI 'AIR EH NAMBLIES BE KEEPIN' ME _!?!?"
- This holiday season, join __ and ___ as they venture into the depths of the PPC HQ in search of __!
- I wish they stopped nerfing __ with every single patch update!
- What did you put at the top of this year's Christmas tree?
- Who is the newest president of the United States, as determined by this year's election results?
- __: The Obligatory Christmas Special
- If you're _, you __. It's what you do.

"Proper rehabilitation of those unfortunates suffering from glitter contamination is sped up significantly by adherence to rules and protocol, whether concerned with canon or 15-B requisition forms. Also, you hate doing it."

Here, if you'd talk about a "menorah" people would think you're talking about a lightbulb (or a lamp), not the nine-branched candle-thingy that is used as part of the rituals in Hanukkah. They're definitely not the same thing and it won't be any different to calling the host of the Eucharist "pita".

Ripper and Backslash both like working with technology, and Falchion, being me, is presumably a really good drawer. I don't know if they could work, but... maybe?

...Sarah's stated at least once that she's good at baking, and her partner Cupid is an amazing cook, so there's that too!

Yeah, and the robot mother is a personality clone of a canon character, who is somehow at the same time a self insert, as stated by the author.

And the robot father is the canon character that mother is based on...

Then the child is also a clone of both parents personality wise.

A personality clone, as I call it, is an OC who literally has the same personality as a canon character, not a literal clone.

Jack would do it, too, just to see if he could spark some basic decency in the Detective.

He's a book binder, and a bit of an artist. He could probably make a few books for the Nursery- some classic fairy tales and things. You know, "Cryogenically Frozen Beauty," "The Seven Statues," "The Vanquishing of the Dark and Terrible Armada of the Great Vampires in the Dark Times by the Great Lord President Rassilon, Long May He Reign."
The ones you grow up with.

Once he'd made an anthology or two, he could probably help with setting up some lights and a tree for them using his sonic. He's a pretty tech-y guy.

Jack is actually decent at woodcarving. He could make a few cars, Pinewood Derby style, and a track.

Well.

I mean, yeah, they're currently *used* to refer to the same thing, particularly in American English (I'm pretty sure no Hebrew-speaking Israeli would use it). I'll even catch myself saying 'menorah' sometimes. So, going by the current vernacular--that's perfectly fine.

The only thing is, well, technically they aren't meant to be two words for the same thing. A menorah, like the one that stood in the Temple two thousand years ago, has seven branches. A chanukiah, on the other hand, is what we use today and has nine--to symbolize the eight days the one jug of oil in the Chanukah story burned for (eight branches plus one shammash or helper candle, which is used to light the others; the menorah has six plus one shammash. If you're familiar with the Shammes or whatever the name ended up being for the caretaker of a synagogue in Eastern Europe, it's the same word). So, I have to add my religious/Jewish Studies major protest that they're actually *not* the same thing, even though the current use is to conflate them.

So...ach. Do what you like. Just, y'know, be aware that 'chanukiah' isn't just the Hebrew equivalent (both words are Hebrew)--it's actually the correct word for the currently used thing. But yeah, for understanding purposes, the vernacular should probably be used...

~DF

PS: "Menorah" probably comes from "ner", candle, or "or", light. "Chanukiah", well, I'm guessing it's meant to be 'this is a candelabra specific to Chanukah and referring to the Chanukah story so we're calling it a chanukiah'. And now I'm wondering how old that word is and what Hillel and Shammai called the Chanukah candle-holder in the Talmud when they were disagreeing over which direction the candles should be lit from...Anyway, I should go back to Yiddish in Canada now. Carry on. ~DF

Anyway, welcome to the PPC! Please accept this elegant and finely-crafted starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiiit's Fraxure!

And your starting item is:-

Godhead(!) from The Binding Of Isaac: Afterbirth!

Godhead is a fantastic item that's basically a held version of Hone Claws, but better. It increases your Attack and Special Attack stats by 30%, and increases the accuracy of your moves by 30% too! This makes moves like Dragon Rush super viable... or it would if Fraxure knew them. Still, it's a good item for an offensively inclined Pokémon, so get an Adamant one with Mould Breaker and EV train it in Attack and Speed, then give it Swords Dance to boost your Attack even higher, Outrage for STAB, Superpower for Fighting-type coverage against big, nasty threats, and Iron Tail to deal with Fairy-types lured in by the promise of an Outrage. You might just want to wait for it to evolve before using it, though; Haxorus is a great Pokémon in its own right, and benefits hugely from the stat boosts. Most importantly, however: have fun. =]