Foreign Language Miscellany

1. Telecommuting is such a geshmak, especially when everyone else is going meshuga (for some reason, my mother's "meshige" sounds even better in that sentence).

2. From the mouth of babes: "I can beat up Shmuly and Shmuly can beat up Fuly, so I can beat up Fuly. It's a kal va-homer." If he had said ipso facto, I would have been more impressed.

3. Recent statement by a posek to a friend regarding bugs: "One man's reductio ad absurdum is another's ein hakhi nami."