Comments on: RIP Valerie Harper

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 22:01:16 +0000

She’d probably be a lot more successful if she hadn’t gotten greedy and demanded too big of a salary boost on Valerie.

Not only did they replace her, they tossed out her CHARACTER (the title char!!), and refocused the show…

By: Aaron G

Aaron G — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 03:47:44 +0000

In about ‘91 or ‘92, when I was still working in video production, one I had a single task, to get a quick shot, several angles of a client’s billboard in West Hollywood. I got the early on a summer Saturday morning, spent 30 min or so getting various angles, figured I was done. Was about 11 am by now, and a local cop pulled up and told me I should probably get out of there soon as the Hollywood Gay Pride Parade was heading this way ( and I thought I was gonna get hassled for guerrilla filming) so… I noticed I had passed Pinks on the way, and as it was 11 am or so, nearly lunchtime, thought I’d get something to eat. As I walk towards the counter, I see “Rhoda” coming towards me, carrying tray of chili dogs and drinks. So I sez to her I sez “Hi, I like your work!” And she simply says, with a big smile “Thank you very much young man!” … that was my brush with an 80’s sitcom star.

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:07:51 +0000

sdferr: So my mother was a shiksa…

By: sdferr

sdferr — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:24:35 +0000

Jewish babies come from Jewish mothers, so when Jewish boys marry non-Jewish girls (here disparaged as shiksa) they and their offspring are correctly perceived to be more likely to depart from the faith of their fathers and mothers.

Where’s the problem with that? Hence disparaging non-Jewish girls or girlfriends when speaking among Jewish boys ought reasonably to be expected. No big whoop, is it? I think it isn’t, and would think as well that Jewish girls intent on having Jewish babies with Jewish boys wouldn’t either. Women generally, after all, compete with one another for men, so this can be seen as merely another form of that.

By: Julie near Chicago

Julie near Chicago — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:07:23 +0000

Ah well. The Edit function never visits Near Chicago anymore. Probably afraid of getting cooties, or worse. :>((

By: Julie near Chicago

Julie near Chicago — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:05:43 +0000

MISS Harper (caps are to stress the lapse of the use of the title of respect, the lapse of the use of which is deplorable) — Miss Harper, as Rhoda, had me fooled for years. I assumed she really was from Brooklyn or the Bronx and probably Jewish. (Never thought she was fat. Thought Rhoda was just one one of those people obsessed with the notion that she was overweight.)

She was, indeed, wonderful as Rhoda. I’m sad to learn she’s gone.

Thank you for posting, Neo.

Aesop, great cartoon! Thanks! :>)

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 21:45:54 +0000

Or maybe you didn’t realize that that term is quite derogatory?

charles: Dunno. My stepfather used to say shiksa — and he was an evil man — but I never got the sense the term went beyond mildly unpleasant.

How is shiksa not a term for a non-Jewish woman? What is a shiksa, if not?

By: charles

charles — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 21:26:57 +0000

Wow Avi, just wow!

I got news for you – neither Valeria Harper nor any other non-Jewish woman is a “shiksa.”

Or maybe you didn’t realize that that term is quite derogatory?

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 20:23:41 +0000

Art Deco: I still laugh or at least smile when I see Dick van Dyke trip over that ottoman.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:42:42 +0000

“Betty White (is) 97. All the living still lucid, AFAIK.”

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