Grown-ups say the darndest things...

[arib]

A question I get very often, both from random strangers and my own grandmother tends to run along the lines of, "is your daughter a good baby or a bad baby?"

I'm never quite sure how to answer this one. It's not like she robs banks or abuses animals or anything. I know that they really want to know whether or not she cries a lot, but it always comes across like they're imposing some moral or value judgement. :-)

Another fun thing was when a friend of Aliza's grandmother, who definitely was trying to compliment RAB came out with the following:

"Kinnahora,* your child is too beautiful. A bird should crap on her head!"

I was able to stammer out some sort of a thank you. I would have gotten upset, but she seemed so genuine and complimentary about it that I let it slide.


*A contraction of the Yiddish "k'neyna hora," which more or less translates as "without giving you an evil eye." Hearing it pronounced Kinnahora makes me want to open a kosher Irish bar called Ken O'Hara's.

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[rosefox]

Hearing it pronounced Kinnahora makes me want to open a kosher Irish bar called Ken O'Hara's.

DO IT. Fleishig, of course, so you can serve hamburgers and cottage pie and turkey bangers & mash. Do you know how thrilled I would be to have GUARANTEED dairy-free bangers & mash at a pub? A lot thrilled, is how.

Also there should be lots of cheerful sayings painted on the walls in uncial Hebrew.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Uncial Hebrew. My brain just broke.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Having people in both my and Aliza's families who have actually worked in the food industry means that I know better than to actually try and open a restaurant. :-)

That said, I'd be interested in trying to come up with a passable kosher bangers and mash.

I had to look up uncial script. That'd definitely be neat, but I'd be torn between Yiddish and Hebrew. :-)