SAN DIEGO–As read by Melanie Rubin, our maven of license plate-speak, this one means something to the effect that we are loved in God’s eye. And the field of flowers in the background of the message tend to reinforce that idea. Have you smelled the flowers today?
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-A Chinese ship detected pings while combing the Indian Ocean for the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. While some observers believe this will lead to finding the wreckage of the plane, others think that the Chinese also detected an alternating series of pongs emanating from the ship’s game room.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Marnie Winston MacCauley LAS VEGAS, Nevada — In Fred A. Bernstein’s “The Jewish Mothers’ Hall of Fame,” Florence, a Holocaust survivor and mother of rock star, Gene Simmons, shared her Yiddishkeit with Gene’s pop-star pals. One year Gene brought Cher and her family to his mom’s home for a Passover Seder. Mom was thrilled.
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Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO -Now that the Supreme Court has concluded that money is free speech and there should not be limits on how much money corporations and individuals donate to political campaigns, congressional representatives from both parties are posting their votes on specific bills on EBay and selling them to the highest bidder.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Since New Jersey Democrats remain skeptical of the Bridgegate report authored by lawyers Chris Christie appointed, the Governor may appoint another group of investigators who won’t find anything that implicates him in the scandal. He has asked the search team at Malaysia Airlines to look into the matter. * President
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
SAN DIEGO –When words are transliterated from one alphabet to another, a variety of spellings occur — for example “Chanukah” and “Hannukah.” While the most common translation for the Hebrew word for “the land” is “eretz,” this spelling too works. And so our Jewish license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, gets one more notch on her
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
JERUSALEM (Press Release) – The world has certainly seen its share of Miley Cyrus Wrecking Ball parody songs, but nothing as creative or unusual as that of a Hassidic Man swinging on a Matzah Ball in a miniature set made of real pieces of Matzah. To complement the video, a mock fan site was created
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Trivia, Humor & Satire
A: Who’s asking? SAN DIEGO (Press Release)- The off-Broadway hit show Old Jews Telling Jokes comes to San Diego for a five week run at the Lyceum Theatre downtown and is sure to make audiences laugh ’til they plotz. Performances run April 23 – May 25. Opening night is Wednesday, April 30. Co-created by Peter
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San Diego Calendar, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-A report commissioned by Chris Christie and authored by lawyers he appointed has found that the New Jersey governor had no advance knowledge about the closing of the Fort Lee lanes on the George Washington Bridge. The lawyers belong to the prestigious legal firm Simian, Simian, and Simian. * Pope Francis
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Media pundits have noted that CNN has become obsessed with the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 filling the 24 hour news cycle with various theories about what happened to the airplane in lieu of any news to report. People tired of the CNN coverage can turn to Rachel Maddow who
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Jeremy Ogul Mission Publishing Group, LLC LA MESA, California — Seventy-six years after they tied the knot, Phil and Sylvia Borkat – both 101 – are still holding hands like teenage lovebirds. “When we walk, we do that, and people say, ‘Why are you holding hands?’” Sylvia says. “And he tells them, ‘Well, to keep from
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San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & Satire
