Mad Libs to Fewer Annoyances

Mad Libs to Fewer Annoyances

 

To play you’ll need:

  • a person’s name
  • an annoying thing that person does
  • an idiom like “bang your head against a wall.”

_____ (person’s name) _____ is / has been / will be (pick one or more) annoying until I stop being annoyed by their _____ (annoying thing that person does) _____ .

I also can choose to _____ (idiom like “bang your head against a wall”) _____ and continue to be annoyed.

 
 

Stuff Gets To Me

✧✧✧ As I pack up to leave after my workout, someone asks me, “Hey, Rabbi, how are things going?” I’m not one for small talk. Especially after being called by my title. “Well,” I reply. “I’m sad.” “Why?” “I’m thinking about the girls who went to school in the morning in Minab, Iran—over a hundred of them—killed by a bomb.”

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My Letter to Habakkuk

✧✧✧ To my dearest pen pal, Habbakuk: First, let me say, no one remembers the prophets who did not deliver on the goods. Your predictions came true. And, 2500+ years later, you are still remembered. Do you remember Lenny, that guy? Kept going around Judea telling people “the goats will lay down in green pastures,” and, then, remember? It started

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Me, Rabbi.

✧✧✧   I am a rabbi.   I have a Masters Degree in Hebrew letters and a Doctorate of Divinity, and I am ordained as a rabbi.   I have each credential framed, in my office, just behind where I sit.   They’re not individually affixed to the wall—they lean against one another in a stack.   I like the

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