Comments on: And the cow is one

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:11:28 +0000

In reply to Gary Rosen. There appear to be two Carrolls. One is Jon at the SFGate, the other is John at the Campaign Outsider blog. I haven't seen anything anti-Semitic from either of them. Need a cite, Gary.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:12:13 +0000

Fixed and updated to reflect your correction, Sabba Hillel.

I don’t think they’ll be embarrassed. I think either a teacher or fellow student at Hebrew school will finally hear that they’re singing “moo sh’mo”, and correct them, or they’ll figure it out for themselves.

And when they’re all grown up, we’ll have a very funny story to tell at get-togethers.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:38:14 +0000

Unfortunately, Carroll is a raving antisemite.

By: Tangaroa

Tangaroa — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:57:22 +0000

For humour in a similar vein, Jon Caroll's Mondegreen columns have fun with misheard lyrics of pop songs, and Richard Lederer often notes the funner points of English. Lederer's history of the world (according to student bloopers) is a classic.

By: sabbahillel

sabbahillel — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:20:07 +0000

Sorry, a typo. I meant the Xian prayer that contain “Hollow is thy name” and the song written by Steve Harris for the 1982 Iron Maiden album The Number of The Beast.

By: sabbahillel

sabbahillel — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:39:02 +0000

Just to let you know, the second paragraph is part of teh Aleinu prayer. The “shmo echad” still means “his name is one”, the “moo” just removes the “and” Your joke is funny though. If you wait too long, they might get embarassed when they learn to read it for themselves and see what it means.

It remids me of the “Jose can you see?” in the American anthem and the “translation” of the psalm, “The Lord is my shepherd, hollow is thy name”.