Argument over Aretha Franklin ends in shooting in Virginia: report

Cox Media via WPXI ^ | August 16, 2018 | Theresa Seiger,

[mlo]

"Didn’t she play herself the Blues Brothers?"

She was in Blues Brothers but she wasn't playing herself.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sorry, who is that?

Gene Rayburn, the late host of TV's Match Game

He was perhaps one of the ugliest men who ever lived. And yet he became a TV star. Is this a great country or what??

[Theodore R.]

Jefferson would not recognize today’s Virginians.

[Tzaphon]

Go higher!

Aretha Franklin - Think (The Blues Brothers 1980)

Crank it up...

Zacor Aretha!

[EdnaMode]

Crazy!

[Daffynition]

Wasn’t that *Miracle on 47th Street* ? :D

[Ezekiel]

Wasn’t that *Miracle on 47th Street* ? :D

Aha, very very good!

Nothing like pinging the weird-o-meter with that.

Not being familiar with NYC, first thing I did was buzz over to a map, because all the mysteries of the universe are answered by way of a map, מפה.

And that didn't take long. I found the answer between Avenues 5th and 6th. ;)

Even better is that I "just happened" to have a map already open to Fifth Avenue. That's because I had been checking out what Rabbi Mendel Kessin often says about the effect of the revelation of all knowledge (the Messianic Light):

"It's like taking a guy from 4000 years ago and dropping him onto Fifth Avenue."

Sensory overload, lethal dose. Strange, because everyone the world over already knows that Fifth Avenue is synonymous with Saks...

... the flagship store between 49th and 50th Streets, because what's in a name (and an address, and a phone number)? Saks (זק"ש) spelled out = 613.

>>> Zaks is a surname. Among Jews, it can be a variant of the German surname, Sachs, the patronymic variant of the Hebrew biblical male personal name Yitzchak/Isaac or it can originate in the acronym surname Za'Ks, which stands for the Hebrew words, Zera Kodesh Shemo, literally meaning "his name is Holy Seed," a quotation from Isaiah 6:13 and implying "his name descends from martyrs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaks_(surname)

זרע קודש שמו

Seax (Old English pronunciation: ['sæ?ks]; also sax, sæx, sex; invariant in plural, latinized sachsum) is an Old English word for "knife".[1] In modern archaeology, the term seax is used specifically for a type of sword or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons, whose name derives from the weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seax

Google's street view is from last December, so all the Christmas lights are on. Well you were punning the name of a Christmas movie, after all. ;)

Saks, meaning: the man from Isaac known for his sword: holy seed is his name.

The revelation of all knowledge really IS the dropping of a plain man [Jacob] down onto the nexus of world commerce [Esav], because it already happened.

Aren't you glad you replied? (Ducking..)

P.S. Phinneous check the black letters in the phrase, which are "shem code raz". The mystery code name [of the holy seed]: Esav.

611 Fifth Avenue.

Free men:

The origin of the ethnic name is uncertain; it traditionally is said to be from the old Germanic word *frankon "javelin, lance" (compare Old English franca "lance, javelin"), their preferred weapon, but the reverse may be the case. Compare also Saxon, traditionally from root of Old English seax "knife." The adjectival sense of "free, at liberty" (see frank (adj.)) probably developed from the tribal name, not the other way round. It was noted by 1680s that, in the Levant, this was the name given to anyone of Western nationality (compare Feringhee and lingua franca).

https://www.etymonline.com/word/frank

So there you go. See, full circle. Unintentional on my part.

The thread is about Aretha Franklin, an argument over who plays her in a movie.

"You'd better think..."

[Ezekiel]

Wasn’t that *Miracle on 47th Street* ?

Come to think of it, Miracle on 34th Street (1947) was about proving the identity of a mystery man, Kris Kringle.

He was receiving sachs of mail addressed to Santa, and the USPS was considered a "competent authority". It therefore had already acknowledged who was Santa, so there.

The movie demonstrates that the revelation of all knowledge is really simple and obvious, like being able to prove who is Santa. Find out to whom the USPS is delivering those kinds of messages, and you'll discover who is on a mission from God.

The Zohar describes the same thing as a bird going out from Gan Eden, Paradise.

Birds = airmail. It's literal. Plastered right on the box, can't miss it:

Funny thing about Christmas in Hawaii. It doesn't match. It's balmy, as if Christmas were in July.

Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say
on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day
That's the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun will shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way
to say Merry Christmas to you...

Not only is "Mele Kalikimaka" really just Hawaiian "Engrish" for "Merry Christmas", but the words mass (as in Christmas) and message and mission are from the same root saying "send".

Hmmm, learn something new every day. This stuff is even better than what I got out a "random" pic you posted to me a couple of months ago, regarding an article about an ash plume escaping from a crematorium. It was something like this one:

[Daffynition]

SHAZAM!

I think you should switch to decaf darling! But I do love your associations and circling the wagons, so to speak.

Seared into my memory is an event that happened to me on the corner of 47th and 5th; it confirmed that everyone who pillories NYC is wrong. :D

“Skylark” :)

[Ezekiel]

Ha, I just never know from where I will derive inspiration. I’ve finally learned to roll with it and not look back! ;)

[dfwgator]

Am I going to hell for laughing at this?

Yes you are....(and I'm going with you)