A new Jewish movement....

From Haikus for Jews:
Hey! Get back indoors
Whatever you were doing
Could put an eye out!
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Oy vey! Vhat a site! I lost it when I saw the Shalom MoFo T-shirt!
:)
There is now the lox all over the keyboard!
 
Yeah, the Shalom Motherf*****! t-shirt is the best.

Tell the world, “I’m all about the peace motherf#*@ers!”

More than slightly odd, but it is funny.
 
Fashion? What you know from fashion?
And the mouths on these teenagers? They should know that they killed their own mothers with shame with such shirts...
 
HJK said:
Ever notice that "Yo" is just "Oy" backwards?
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Alef-yud, written correctly from right to left. :) The Greeks confused everything with their boustrophedon.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Alef-yud, written correctly from right to left. :) The Greeks confused everything with their boustrophedon.
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My Hebrew is rusty but wouldn't you say vav-yod instead of alef-yod?
 
Maybe alef-vav-yud, but I don't want anyone to mistake it for Veh!

Do you know how far back Yo! goes? It is the basis of the exclamation point, which from Latin "io" written with the '"i" over the "o" was pronounced Yo! it was used, for example, in their winter holiday greeting "Io Saturnalia!" cheering for the holiday when everybody was supposed to have fun. Much better than "Merry Christmas".
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Maybe alef-vav-yud, but I don't want anyone to mistake it for Veh!

Do you know how far back Yo! goes? It is the basis of the exclamation point, which from Latin "io" written with the '"i" over the "o" was pronounced Yo! it was used, for example, in their winter holiday greeting "Io Saturnalia!" cheering for the holiday when everybody was supposed to have fun. Much better than "Merry Christmas".
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Thanks for the background info.

Although I think it's great to be proud of your heritage, I find the misuse of the alphabet on the shirts annoying, kinda like when folks get tattoos of Chinese characters that look cool, but mean absolutely nothing. But whatever sells hey?
 
Whatever sells. But I doubt we'll be selling many of them to anyone else but us. :D

When I was in high school, there were a lot of us around, but the old timers weren't used to the idea, including one anti-Semite of an English teacher. So we made point of passing notes in her class, obviously enough for her to notice, and she'd take them. Couldn't read them, though: English, but written in Hebrew alphabet.

Humans are social animals. Members of primate bands used to be able to identify each other by smell, but we use other means now.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Members of primate bands used to be able to identify each other by smell, but we use other means now.
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Not true. I know you're out and about in the morning because I can smell you from over 6 blocks away. ;) :p :D
 
Ha. How could you tell if it was me and not the skunk over by the old railroad tracks?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Alef-yud, written correctly from right to left. :) The Greeks confused everything with their boustrophedon.
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Well, if random websites turned up by Google are to be believed, you should blame the Hittites. They apparently did it first ;)
 
That's no fun. The Hittites are extinct. But teasing Greeks gets them huffing and puffing -- besides, Graecum est, non legitur. :D
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Ha. How could you tell if it was me and not the skunk over by the old railroad tracks?
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The skunk smells better. :p ;) :D
 
It figures you like skunk. :p

I don't smell like skunk. I smell like Tuf-Glide. It's my after-shave. :D
 
Esav Benyamin said:
besides, Graecum est, non legitur. :D
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That'll learn me to go straight to the search engine. Tryin' to suss it out myself, I ended up wondering why you couldn't tie up the Greeks :D
 
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