TypoLad ([info]typolad) wrote,
@ 2006-01-22 22:01:00
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Another TypoLad Guest Post...
This time I paid a visit to the nice folks at "Suspension of Disbelief". The topic was the recent issue of Action Comics featuring SUperman going to someone's house for Friday Night Shabbos dinner.

Really.

http://comicfacts.blogspot.com/2006/01/guess-whos-coming-to-shabbos-dinner.html

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[info]scixual
2006-01-23 03:55 am UTC (link)
Wow, neat reply from the artist in the comments!

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[info]colinlamb
2006-01-23 05:54 am UTC (link)
nice article. I would only nitpick your nitpicking in that even people passingly familiar with jewish traditions sometimes screw things up. I have a freind who is orthodox and even though I know many of the customs and what not to do, I made the mistake of ringing the doorbell on Saturday when visiting. I even made the graver error of turning on a light as I went into their kitchen. So ringing the bell and brigning flowers are realistic mistakes that a goyum (sp? jewish for first up against the wall when the revolution comes) can make. Even one who is passingly familiar with the orthodox way of doing things. Although I did catch the headscarf not being on at the end there.

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Nitpicking the nitpicker
[info]rubincompserv
2006-01-24 12:13 am UTC (link)
This is not, as some might think, a Menorah. It’s a Chanukiah.

Could you explain, again please, the difference between a Menorah and a Chanukiah?

Flowers (in a vase, on the table, "tzorech mekomo") can be moved. Also, we don't actually see what happened to them - maybe Josef explained that they can't take them and Superman put them in a vase?

It is doubtful that a non-Jewish guest would know not to bring a gift, and it would certainly be considered rude, in that case, to NOT bring one.

Many families will offer a kippah to a non-Jew at the table, just so he doesn't feel out of place.

It's hard to tell in the picture, but (once upon a time) my parents had a metal "candle holder" with a spring in it so that the candle would always appear to be as tall as when it started. Unless you knew it was fake (or looked closely), it actually looked pretty real.

"You need lots of these kugels"? There's something about that sentence that doesn't seem right to me. "...lots of this kugel" "...lots of pieces of kugel" something like that.

People keep telling me in all seriousness about a "nice young girl", so I have to assume that they would describe a boy as a "nice young man" (I was described that way once, too)


(Speaking of chutzpahdik, what would you call going on to someone's personal blog and attacking his comments? *grin*)

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