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rcast1986
12/19/08

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Not to be nitpicky, but you can't buy apps with giftcards, can you?
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Jason Chen
12/19/08

@rcast1986: Sure you can.
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OMG! Ponies!
11/09/08

In reply to LED Motherboard Menorah Is Hanukkah 2.0
BTW: This is still the gold-standard for hanukia:

The Lenox Menorah.
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OMG! Ponies!
11/09/08

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1) I already have three hannukia (the correct term for the menorah used at Hannukah) and I don't need another.*

2) I am still opposed to electric hannukia on the grounds that it goes against the purpose of the holiday - to celebrate the miracle of the oil.

*There's a very good reason for my having three hannukia. In my old apartment, I lived on the second floor, and so I needed one for the window for passers-by and one for the home. The third one was the one my brother and I had when we were little that my mom passed down to me. It's steel and cost about $5 in 1968.
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gamecrazychris
11/09/08

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Looks like a nice gift for a jewish geek if there's such thing.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/09/08

@gamecrazychris: I'm fairly confident that there are.
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OMG! Ponies!
11/09/08

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: There are Jewish geeks a'plenty. And there are plenty of nice gifts to get those Jewish geeks.

However, Hannukah isn't the gift-giving holiday; Purim is. And if you're wondering what we Jews like - same as the gentiles....

Peace on Earth and Good Will Towards Men (and Women)
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jrghoull
11/09/08

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almost every single year after the prayers are said and done, i like to turn off the lights and watch the flames. they are, in a word, magnificant. i could see alot of people getting something like this, hell, if place into certain circumstances i might even get one of these things. but it'll never replace a real menorah.

oh..also...it appears that unless you're a real tech greek, that you cant turn on the lights individually...which you basically need if you are to celebrate hannukah correctly with this thing.

cross that out...no one using this thing is going to be celebrating hannukah correctly. last one to the chinese restaraunt is a goyam!
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OMG! Ponies!
11/09/08

@jrghoull: Chinese on Christmas is so Annie Hall. I mean, seriously, it's not even kitsch or ironic anymore; it's just sad.

Get with it, man. Everyone who's anyone goes out for Thai on Christmas.
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badhatharry
11/09/08

@OMG! Ponies!: I'm so ironic Jew, I celebrate Christmas.

And Purim on Boxing Day.
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Trance-Addict
11/09/08

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Les Grossman approved.

NSFW
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Trance-Addict
11/09/08

@Trance-Addict:

I tried to embed a video but i dont know how. :(
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Kaiser-Machead
11/09/08

@Trance-Addict: If it's youtube, just post the URL.
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