Us: “Should we keep doing this? People seem to like it but is it helping the school?”
Friend in marketing: “Keep going. Everything is brand recognition.”
Us: “But, shouldn’t we show off our incredible teachers & educa…”
Friend: “Shh. Recognition”
Us: “But…”
Friend: “Shhh.”
Arrival is an amazing movie but it’s telling about current society that, in a movie featuring aliens landing all over the world in massive spaceships, the most unrealistic part is that a linguistics professor does something of value.
@Badchonews@VaadHaBadchanim “We shall have two different, unrelated systems of calculating the year. One of them will make sense to the entire world. The other will be super random. Our great nation will use the random one.”
@Badchonews@VaadHaBadchanim “Money will be measured in sela, dinar, and prutah. 4 dinar to a sela…”
“… 4 prutah to a dinar…”
“If it were only so simple.”
“And how many prutah to a sela, sir?”
“768, of course. It’s a simple number that everyone will remember.”
@Badchonews@VaadHaBadchanim “We shall establish holidays called the ‘regalim.’”
“The regalim, sir?”
“Yes, it’s a series of holidays when the kohanim bless people with their hands...”