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Post by Mike the Jedi on Sept 28, 2005 23:32:00 GMT -5
I didn't know Ben Folds was Jewish, either. I just listened to a song of his a second ago, too.
Haven't heard the William Shatner songs, though. I bet they're hilarious.
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Post by CooCooCachoo on Sept 28, 2005 23:33:35 GMT -5
She (Natalie Portman is Polish Ashkenazi and not indigenous Israeli, right? Yes, just like many of the Jews that were in Germany.
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Post by CooCooCachoo on Sept 28, 2005 23:39:57 GMT -5
I didn't know Ben Folds was Jewish, either. I just listened to a song of his a second ago, too. Haven't heard the William Shatner songs, though. I bet they're hilarious. Not as hilarious as Leonard Nimoy's. www.fazed.org/video/view/?id=75
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Post by Yankel on Sept 28, 2005 23:40:29 GMT -5
You could pass. Think of how well you could pass if people were trying to kill you. Lighter brown hairdye, and the right haircut, and you could march with the Waffen SS. That's a bad pic. I have black hair, a moderately prominent nose, fair skin and have been confused for Arab by Arabs in certain settings (Hookah lounge, Lebanese restaurants, etc). That said, I do think I resemble my German side more than my Jewish side. Typical layman's assumption. I don't know if you're a feigning naivete or what, but intermarriage rates were extremely low until the 20th century. Something like .01% per generation. And your theory about the tension is completely off, but that's another story.
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Post by Educate Me on Sept 28, 2005 23:41:58 GMT -5
I dont think Yankel could pass for a German, he has a very typical jewish look that I see in many of the Jews here in Buenos Aires.
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thats the she is a brick and I am drowning dude right?
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Mike, I posted a link to shatner singing "common people" two months ago in anything goes.
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Post by CooCooCachoo on Sept 28, 2005 23:44:21 GMT -5
Kirk Douglas
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Post by Educate Me on Sept 28, 2005 23:46:40 GMT -5
I agree, many jews could pass for germans, but not yankel imo.
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Post by Yankel on Sept 28, 2005 23:47:26 GMT -5
Thanks, Educate Me.
You guys have to hear the entire album. It's hilarious.
Apropos, anyone heard Ben Folds' -- yes, the guy who made the Brick song -- version of Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit"? Brilliant, I say!
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Post by CooCooCachoo on Sept 28, 2005 23:47:47 GMT -5
I dont think Yankel could pass for a German, he has a very typical jewish look that I see in many of the Jews here in Buenos Aires. ...Imagine it from the standpoint of if he "had to pass". He has light skin. Many Germans have big or even crooked noses. If he was hurting for food, like many were, he would look more boney-faced too. ...I think he could pass.
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Post by murphee on Sept 28, 2005 23:49:49 GMT -5
Jewish man who has German last name---has light brown hair and thin lips
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Post by Educate Me on Sept 28, 2005 23:54:19 GMT -5
I dont know how many jews you have seen in your life coocoo (I wish I could word this different, it sounds somehow menacing), but yankel just has the uber jew look.
He looks like some russian jew named sirotnikov or something like that, not like a german.
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Post by CooCooCachoo on Sept 28, 2005 23:54:25 GMT -5
San Diego Jewish Academy students
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Sept 28, 2005 23:58:29 GMT -5
Jewish man who has German last name I can't really tell the difference between Yiddish names and German names. I just assume the ones I can pronounce are the Jewish ones.
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Post by Educate Me on Sept 28, 2005 23:59:03 GMT -5
True, many jews look like northern europeans.
Where I live I wouldnt be surprised if half of all the redheads in this city are jews.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Sept 29, 2005 0:03:20 GMT -5
To be perfectly honest, just a few years ago, I knew next to nothing about the difference between Jews and Gentiles appearance-wise. Heck, I didn't know jack about Jews to begin with. I just as soon assumed people like Spielberg, Woody Allen, etc. were all just regular run-of-the-mill WASP's. Had no idea that there was even a distinction between Jewish-descended people and indigenous European-descended people.
So, gasp! Could it be a Zionist conspiracy at work?! Find out next time, on David Duke!
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