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August 4th 06, 05:12 PM
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Temperatures - it's all relative
"Darrin" wrote in message ups.com... Heat Wave update from The Greatest City In The World (ehe): it was a whopping 105-107 (real feel temp) degrees for the past two days! IOW, most of the heat wave concern has been for the Midwest and North East Coast, particularly NYC! NY EMS had the 6th busiest day in its history. It's so bad, The Empire State Building (world's most famous skyscraper) had to dim some of its famous night lights to conserve energy!ehe In case many are unaware (unless one is living under a UK boonie rock!eh), when the holidays swing around, 30 Rock's (Top Of The Rock (observation deck reopened) - the Crown Jewel of NYC) lights coincide with the color of each particular ethnic holiday. Green for St. Patty's; Red, White & Green for Xmas, etc. -D, NYC "They all laughed at Rockefeller Center, now they're fighting to get in!" - TONY BENNETT (umpteenth celebrity I-talian, penned by umpteenth sweet, sweet Jewish NYers, George & Ira Gershwin (b. Gershowitz) - greatest pop-songwriters of all-time).."The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves" - JERRY SEINFELD (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer - after being criticized severely, in September 1995, for airing an episode of his television show Seinfeld in which the characterization of a rabbi was deemed offensive - taken from Great Jewish Quotations by Jews & About Jews - By Alfred J. Kolatch).."Palestine should be as distinctly Jewish as England is English" - CHAIM WEIZMANN (a comment made in 1919, from Great Jewish Quotations: By Jews & About Jews" By Alfred J. Kolatch.."In fact, I'm not really a Jew. Just Jew-ish. Not the whole hog, you know" eh - JONATHAN MILLER (sweet Yiddish-British, from Complete Beyond the Fringe, 1987, by Alan Bennett et al).."You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world" - 1010 WINS NEWS NY: AMERICA'S MOST LISTENED TO NEWS RADIO.."Between 1892 & 1924, 16 million immigrants entered America through Ellis Island - 71 % of all immigrants in the United States - seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and economic opportunities" - LITTLE BIG BOOK OF NEW YORK.."New York City has the most skyscrapers in the world with more than 130" (ibid).."New York City owes its intellectual vitality to the presence of the Jews...the only people in New York who love books with a passionate yearning which transcends their attention to all terrestrial manifestations" - FORD MADOX FORD (British Novelist, "Horizon" - 1926).."The intellectual life is why I'm a New Yorker. It's why I stay here. I spend my summers in Europe, and if they ask me if I'm an American, I say, "No, I'm a New Yorker." I don't know about everyone else, but for me that's a positive statement." - ALEXANDER ALLAND JR.."Jewish education has, over the years, brought to New York State the fruits of a proud heritage of learning, a history of scholarly achievement and a tradition of progressive educational involvement" - NELSON ROCKEFELLER (former US V.P., NY Governor - 1959-73).."The basis of successful business is honesty; a business cannot thrive where the parties to it cannot trust each other. In the matter of numbers of the Jew counts for little in the overwhelming population of New York; but that his honesty counts for much is guaranteed by the fact that the immense wholesale business houses of Broadway, from the Battery to Union Square, is substantially in his hands" - MARK TWAIN.."I thank God I was born on the banks of the Hudson" - DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER, pseudonym of WASHINGTON IRVING (Irving Plaza fame), poet/author, A History of New York - 1809.."The only credential (New York) was the boldness to dream" - MOSS HART, act one, 1959.."Excelsior - ever upward!" - NY STATE MOTTO.."I am frequently asked whether anti-Semitism played a role in my initial cold welcome to the Senate. It is possible...But...I never attributed anything that happened to me to anti-Semitism..A personal snub or problem can be dealt with, but if you succumb to the paranoia that your opponent is fighting you because of your religion or ethnic background, then you might as well give up entirely, because there is no way to change your identity" - JACOB JAVITS, NY Senator, ala Jacob Javits Center (world's most famous convention center), "busiest man in the Senate," from his autobiography, in which he advised aspiring politcians).."The Jewish kid (Koufax) is probably the best of them" - CASEY STENGEL (In answer to the question, "Who was the finest pitcher in baseball history?" Quoted in Geoffrey C. Ward's Baseball: An Illustrated History, 1994).."Because I'm a Jew, of course, but more than that, because I'm a human being, and I care about what goes on in the world. I think the whole world must be concerned with Israel - this country is the hope of the future. It combines the wisdom of the old and the energy of the young. If Israel goes, the whole free world goes" - SHELLEY WINTERS (b. Shirley Schrift, sweet Jew, raised in NYC, When asked why she devoted so much effort raising funds for Israel. Quoted in Elinor & Robert Slater's Great Jewish Women, 1994).."There is no brighter chapter in the whole history of philanthropy than that which could be written of the work of the American Jews in the last nine years." - HERBERT HOOVER (31st US President, Quoted in Joseph C. Heyman's article "Twenty-Five Years of American Aid to Jews Overseas," which appeared in American Jewish Yearbook, 1939-1940) WTF has this to do with any of these newsgroups? |
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