I think you actually can shut him down while still being nice. Just say something like, "Dude, I can tell you are interested in Judaism, and that's cool, but I just don't feel comfortable answering your questions. Here is a website [insert good website of your choice] which is a good one for this stuff." If he says he would rather ask you, or he is just making conversation or anything, go back to, "It makes me uncomfortable." From now on, any time he asks a cultural/religious question, just smile and say "check the site."
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Scrappy - Apr 15, 2009 9:16:17 am PDT #6798 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Glamcookie - Apr 15, 2009 9:18:20 am PDT #6799 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Scrappy FTW!
javachik - Apr 15, 2009 9:20:16 am PDT #6800 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Barb, sorry about the renegade stitch but glad it was a fairly easy fix. Take it easy, you! Though I know it's against your nature, stop trying to do everything.
I'm constantly grateful for both my parents. There is no one I respect more than them. I was closer to my mother; I think my dad and I are possibly too similar. (I noticed this especially travelling through Europe with first D and then M.) I still miss my mother.
Such a nice thing to read. Congrats on your well-timed lay-off; that little baby is going to be very lucky.
Hil R. - Apr 15, 2009 9:29:44 am PDT #6801 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oooh. Scrappy is wise.
Shir - Apr 15, 2009 9:34:53 am PDT #6802 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Postcake:
Send him here, Hil.
He'll be surrounded. And I can videotape his reaction. Infact, I'd love to videotape his reaction.
Hil R. - Apr 15, 2009 10:05:54 am PDT #6803 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Wasn't this whole thing with taking care of drunk friends supposed to end after college? One of my classmates is literally falling-down drunk in my office.
Hil R. - Apr 15, 2009 10:07:34 am PDT #6804 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
She weighs about 100 pounds. She had six shots, some rum and some tequila. We're giving her water.
Barb - Apr 15, 2009 10:08:40 am PDT #6805 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Oh hell, Hil. Hopefully no alcohol poisoning going on.
Hil R. - Apr 15, 2009 10:12:26 am PDT #6806 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
She's still awake and talking. We're giving her water, and told her that she can go to sleep after she finishes. She's complaining that the water is too sweet.
This was either 5 or 6 shots in 45 minutes. At 2 in the afternoon. One of the other people drinking with her had office hours at the time, and one of his students came while he was still drunk and the office reeked of alcohol.
Seriously, people?
Ginger - Apr 15, 2009 10:15:39 am PDT #6807 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Damn, Hil. Don't let her lie on her back and try to get some calories into her.
Are there any area rabbis that deserve having your office mate sicced on them?