If you're Expecting "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah", Fuhgetaboutit
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This CD is important to anyone who needs to complete their collection of Allan Sherman music.
In terms of panache however, meh?
The lyrics are kind of sophomoric, and one can easily see why they were not considered his best work, nor included in his other produced albums.
They are fun to listen to however.
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Classic Haggadah, that is just long enough to feel like you've done your praying, and just short enough to keep your attention span in check. Will order (lol) more in the future before the next Seder.
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As-Salaamu 'Alaikom dearest Sister Yasmin.

Jazaki Allahu Khairan (Thank You) for all you do.
May Alah (swt) bless and reward you. Ameen Ya Rabb

Much Love,
Your Sister
Reem Nweder
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Ok, guys. This book is full of basic advice that will make you look like a champ instead of a chump. For example, buying candy for your lady? Do not, repeat, do NOT run into the convenience store while gassing up your ride and pick up one of those mass-market produced boxes of chokkies. "Gas? Done. Gift, done. Time expended, 4 minutes! Impressing your date? Priceless!" Uh, no, that is not happening. Take heed, young swain, you must cruise on over to the department store and procure a box of top-shelf confections, you know the kind. Get a gold-foil box that conceals a pitifully few dainty sweets nestled in flocked plastic, like jewels in a velvet-lined coffer. Despite the inconvenience and a purchase that seems outrageously expensive, you will find that your lady will react in quite a different manner than to the drugstore sampler. As a member of the female gender, I personally aver this to be absolutely true.

There is also advice for what to bring for a weekend away; a raspberry scented candle, and a CD. But not one of those CD's you find in a certain class of hotel, instead, author Knight suggests you bring Sade.

There is also advice on what to cook for a intimate dinner at home (paella, or chicken with wild rice, and for heaven's sake, know something about wine) but I don't think this is a good idea. If your typical night's cooking will be warming up Hot Pockets with a side of leftover takeout from lunch, it's best to make this clear at the outset, and also find a woman who likes to show off her culinary skills as a way of showing you she cares. Much more honest. You'll save on legal fees, too.

There is lots of advice on the touchy side of the relationship, as in sex but little on the feely side, and by "feely" I don't mean sex, I mean how to avoid the boggy areas of argument and misunderstanding that accumulate during courtship, are ignored and then come up as a huge issues that each side felt "would change" after you've hatched a kid and are now wondering if you should get married. This sequence seems completely out of order to me, but it is a popular chain of events these days.

Sad to say, her annoying habit of texting her ex-boyfriends while out with you isn't going to stop, and you have no intention of checking with her in by cell phone every 15 minutes or quitting those five-day hunting outing twice a year. No, it's best to get these issues on the table early and to learn how to judge character before you choose a more permanent mate, let alone create a couple of helpless new lifeforms who will be drastically affected by your eventual breakup and creation of a new and better family.

There is no advice on picking a suitable mate and treating your chosen one with true kindness. So this is really just a "how to coax a lady" book and getting past second base. For success in making dating the art of courting, judging and choosing your right woman, you'll have to find a deeper source. I suggest this book for you if you are going to get serious.
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"The Band's Visit" is an unexpected comedy about the meeting of Arab and Jewish cultures in Israel -unexpected because the cultures don't clash in any obvious way, and there is no hostility between the characters. Instead, a few bored working class Jews living in a dull desert town welcome the change of pace occasioned by a band of stranded Egyptians. The eight-man Alexandria Ceremonial Orchestra has traveled from Egypt to play at the opening of an Arab Cultural Center in Petah Tikva. But through an error of pronunciation, they take the bus to Bet Hatikva instead, a fictional drab desert town dominated by ugly mid-rise apartment buildings. A free-spirited, lonely restaurateur named Dina (Ronit Elkabetz) volunteers herself and two friends to put the band up for the night.

Writer and director Eran Kolirin has made a sweet, low-key dramedy in which everything is played straight, not for laughs. Indeed, Dina's loneliness and band leader Tewfiq Zakaria's (Sasson Gabai) embarrassment are palpable. That's not funny, but the characters seem genuine, and their situation is awkwardly amusing. Ronit Elkabetz deserves a lot of credit for making frank, bored Dina into a real charmer who steals every scene. Saleh Bakri is also a lot of fun to watch as handsome Haled, the band's youngest and most insolent member whose primary pursuit is flirting. Though "The Band's Visit" is obviously contrived to make a socio-political statement as well as to entertain, it is successful because these are characters that the audience would want to spend time with. In English, Hebrew, and Arabic with subtitles.

The DVD (Sony 2008): Bonus features are a theatrical trailer (2 min), a Photo Gallery of 29 stills, and a featurette called "The Band's Visit: Making the Fairy Tale" (14 min). It interviews writer/director Eran Kolirin about the project, composer Habib Shadah about the score, and actors Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, and Saleh Bakri about their characters and working with Kolirin. Subtitles for the film are available in English. More than half of the film's dialogue is in English, as it is the language that the Israeli and Egyptian characters have in common. But due to their strong accents, the English dialogue is also subtitled.
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Love it.  The cartoons are really funny!  They are appropriate for that portion of the Haggadah.  The Haggadah itself is straight-forward traditional - which I still enjoy year after year; new ways to look and realize it are always welcome!
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I need to start this by saying I love the Fuccons, I watched the Japanese series before ADV licensed it here. It was called Oh, Mikey! If you like the more ridiculous or bizzare stuff on Adult Swim like 12 oz mouse, tom goes to the mayor, etc, and you like some of the stranger anime, you may very well like this. If you don't like the idea of space ghost-type dry delivery by mannequins that don't (or barely) even move, don't bother. But this $4 intro disk is awesome, has 8 episodes, and if anything you can pass it around to annoy your coworkers and friends. Someone you know is gonna love it.

This show follows an american family living in Japan, trying to fit in, and failing miserably. Just buy this, for crying out loud, and make sure you watch the episode where Mikey has to go to the store for his mom. Amazing.

My only complaint (but it warrants an entire star being knocked off) is the HORRIBLE DUB JOB BY ADV. PLEASE, ADV! Find some NEW VOICE ACTORS! The dad is horrible and I suspect without looking it up he's the same dude that (horribly) dubbed Ilpallazzo in Excel Saga. The guy sounds like a 3rd-rate actor playing comedy, and Mikey's dad (and Ilpalazzo) were played deadpan. Why this guy can't figure that crap out is WAY beyond me. The director of the american dub needs to get his crap together, or find a new job.

After the rant, I still love it. Watch it, buy it, but mail ADV and send that guy packing.
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Sure, you could complain about this book's spelling and grammar and not give it credit for the awesomeosity that oozes from its pores. I dub thee: Fuffyfuddy of Lamealonia. Alas, you would be missing out. Take it for what it is; a prime specimin of majesty, a gift of the gods. This book is the only book I've shed tears from laughing while reading. I work at a bookstore, and i glanced at it on the return rack. I said to myself "oh HELLYEA" and bought it right away. Only to be continually amazed. This book is COMPLETELY and WONDERFULLY rediculous.
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This CD is only good if you're not looking to listen what Nusrat had to offer, that what you need is a rhythm accompanation for doing arobic or Yoga exercise. If you are serious about listening to good and real NFAK Quawwali chants, rather than Disco beat, go to the 5CD set of NFAT live in concert in Paris.
That is the bliss of real NFAK's music.
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Just take it as it is. Don't go in expecting something that's going to be a fantastic work of art. It's a parody, and it's a pretty good one at that.  Very British, very cute, and it has wonderfully cringe-inducing moments.
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If You're Expecting Danny Tanner then you will be sorely disappointed. Yes, Bob Saget is incredibly crude, vulgar and borderline insane, but that's what makes this stand up so funny. It's basically a stream of consciousness for 55 but that's great. I think a lot of people got bent out of shape because they were expecting him to do jokes like you did on America's Funniest Home Videos, but that's not what you're going to find here. When he picks out audience members for random jokes it's probably the best, but I thought people complaining about that too. Luckily this is included on my HBO Prime subscription so I've seen it multiple times and I still laugh. This is great for anybody who has to constantly keep it G-rated but they're really a strong NC-17. This is not something to ever watch well your kids are awake, but other than that it's funny if you want to laugh and you aren't easily offended. The people who say they aren't a prude and aren't easily offended are typically the biggest prudes you will ever find who walk around in a constant state of offense. This is not highbrow humour and it's not Richard Pryor either. He has his own style which is blurting out random insanities.
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Hilariously funny!  It's a bit unnecessarily crude, so I only gave it four out of five stars. If you are tired of liberal newspeak and faux logic, you'll love this!
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Hmmmmmm. . . . "Bob Reader," a shill for CAIR -- the Council on "American" Islamo-Fascist Relations, a HAMAS front-group funded by Saudi Arabia -- likes this bizarre, amateurish piece of anti-American, anti-Semitic hate propaganda.  How interesting.  That should tell any prospective Amazon buyer everything he/she needs to know.  Save your money and buy some Halal Chicken and Ginsu steakknives instead, so you can practice your beheading skills, like "Bob Reader" apparently is.  And BTW, Debbie Schlussel is a great investigator, journalist, and commentator, especially on this issue.  It's people like Mohammed, er,"Bob Reader" (not his real name, guaranteed) who go into conniptions, verbal and otherwise, when their cover -- and true views about us Infidels -- is blown -- when they have to go back under the rock from which they crawled.  Why is this person so upset if she, indeed, infiltrated their group in disguise?  Do they ("Bob" and CAIR) have something to hide?  Apparently, they do.  Why are they, including this author's (Mohammed Alomari's) best friend, Shereef Akeel, honoring Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a co-conspirator in the '93 WTC Bombing?  This book is vile trash, and so are those that read it (much less recommend it), including "Bob" and the rest of the modern-day Klan, the Islamo-fascist Klan.  The real Klan.  Their hoods are called Kefiyehs, Burqas, Hijabs, and Abayas.  Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis has left the building, and the new Nazis have entered it.
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Let me try to be clear, though I'm sure I'll still be branded a troll: I love The Stephanie Miller show and listen to it every weekday morning, and I loved the Sexy Liberal concert we went to. I also love funny raunch. But this collection is awful.

I'm sure they were hilarious to each other sitting around drinking, but to a sober dude who really looked forward to listening to these bits... that is some seriously banal and trite material. My friends at our Happy Hours are much funnier, more interesting and entertaining than this best-of happy hour show compilation. UNLESS you are the kind of person who finds using taboo words IN ITSELF funny. And if you do, here you go... you are so going to love this. But if you're a fan of wit or parody or insight or satire or amusing observations or hell, even just funny dirty jokes, give this a big old pass.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the crap sound quality, but that seems a little bit like complaining that the food was horrible and the portions too small.

And that's my regretful but honest opinion. Now let the accusations that I'm a conservative plant fly. As a small business owner who listens to both sides, I take offense.

No. It actually pained me to write this, but I'm harder on my friends than I am on my enemies, and while I expect stupid, unfunny crap from conservatives, this was a real sucker punch from otherwise reliably excellent progressives. If they were to just do what they do on the radio show, but uncensored, that would be awesome. This is just an exercise in leaving the fart machine running and running and running with nothing brilliant in between.
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Now that I have your attention, I'd like to seriously warn you about expecting this book to be a cookbook you might use.  It is a collection of marvelous presentations, but unless you have a full professional kitchen, a couple of sous-chefs hanging around, and are the kind of person who loves to spend a week preparing the basic ingredients for an upcoming meal, this book should be enjoyed as a wonderful commercial for the restuarant, and not as a cookbook.  Every "recipe" is a full blown presentation (see other review listing); a base preparation, under the star presentation supported by a cast of at least two if not three co-stars.  And if you try to just make one of the items, I'm afraid you'll end up feeling inferior that you didn't prepare the full meal deal.

Lovely photographs, by the way.

Get the book from the library, save your money to take a trip to SF and eat at the restaurant.  That's what I should have done.
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When it comes time to check out--just smoke a cigarette and go down easy. Isn't that the way it ought to be? Although this is the second album by Brightblack Morning Light, and a hell of a cool one, I doubt we'll be hearing any further albums from them, since it defies all reason that any of them could have survived the making of this album. I'm quite certain you can hear 'em wheezing and convulsing in the background during the last track. We can only hope the producer politely watched until all band members ceased moving before flicking off the mixing console. Anyway, I've decided right now, "Everybody Daylight" will be heard reverberating down the halls of my building when they come for me with a body bag.