Masthead Lines

That never got the attention for wit and world-weariness that they deserved. Then again nothing on the blog ever did.


AKA The Bray of Fundie.........consigned by DovBear to this "Red Tent" isolation blog reserved for flatulent, hunchbacked lepers suffering from halitosis

till 8.?.09

A nice quiet place to relax...a place with few or no visitors, A bloggish Moqom Hisbodedus for the virtual Breslovers among you
Till 8.19.09

אַל-תִּפְנוּ, אֶל-הָאֱלִילִם-קער זיך נישט צו די וואס ווערען פרום אלול-דער קאצקער זי"ע

"Turn not to those who grow pious in the month of Elul" The Kotzker Rebbe
Till 8.26.09

The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensible people- Charles de Gaulle
Till 9.9.09

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
-Honore de Balzac................................Behind every popular, well-traficked Mega Blog there is a litany of crimes.
-The Bray of Fundie

Till 9.24

אז מען גייט אויף א גלייכען וועג טרעפט מען מענשען= When traveling the straight road one find's company -Old Yiddish Aphorism הינטיגע צייט'ן אז מען גייט אויף א קרומע וועג טרעפט מען מענשען = Nowadays, when traveling crooked and perverse paths one finds plenty of company -New Yiddish maxim coined by the Bray of Fundie

Till 10.13.2009

(Latin) academically jactantia run ut a concisus Latin dictum ut suum permaneo templum
until 10.21


כל מה שיאמר לך בעל-
הבלוג עשה...חוץ מצא
Heed every order the BlogMeister doth impart, unless'n he asketh you to depart -The Bray of Fundie till 10.27.2009

Until 11.3

The triumph of gold over glitter, of steak over sizzle, of substance over style. That is of course, until I learn to format the !@#$%^&* thing so that it looks better than a third place entry in a Middle-School Science Fair -The Bray of Fundie

Until 12.9.2009

Home of the Flaming-Diaper Dialogue©®™ (hat-tip Garnel IronHeart via Izgad)
Until 12.22.09

Be aromatic as the Rose, colorful as the Tulip, ubiquitous as the Weed, shady as the Elm, sweet as the Maple, sturdy as the Oak, productive as the Date-Palm, supple as the Reed, ravenous as the Venus-Fly-Trap to do the will of thy Father in heaven! -The Bray of Fundie
Be aromatic as the Rose, colorful as the Tulip, ubiquitous as the Weed, shady as the Elm, sweet as the Maple, sturdy as the Oak, productive as the Date-Palm, supple as the Reed, ravenous as the Venus-Fly-Trap to do the will of thy Father in heaven! -The Bray of Fundie


Until 4.14.10

Because MINE is an important voice...that deserves to go unheard.

Until 5.11.10

The limbs ceased to quiver gently, the tongue became loosened in its socket, and the backbone stiffened. - P. G. Wodehouse

Until 7.27.10


I can endure evrything but discomfort -The Bray of Fundie (with apologies to Oscar Wilde)

until 3.28.11

The only mark he ever left on this world was an oversized carbon footprint
-my tentative matzevah inscription

Till ????

The hand is faster than the eye but only the nose runs -William Saroyan

Till 12.8.11

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed -CSA General Thomas E. "Stonewall" Jackson

till 1.6.12

We have enough historians. We need some pioneers.

-Ron Jaworski

until 3.20 .12

I don't just read the read...I screed the screed.

The Bray of Fundie

until 6.6.12


If a Jew doesn't make Kiddush then the non-Jew will make Havdalah for him

-Rav Chaim of Volozhin

until 3.5.13

The core characteristic of anti-Semitism is the assertion that everything the Jews do is wrong, and everything that is wrong is done by the Jews.
-Alan Dershowitz

until 5.12.15