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Me: I had this incredibly bizarre dream last night where I was dating Andy Samberg's doppelganger--
My grandmother: Samberg, there's a nice Jewish name. You should ask this boy out! Better him then the goyim you're always bringing around.
Me: ...Andy Samberg is an actor on Saturday Night Live, Grandma.
My mother: She's kind of got a point though--no, I mean, date whoever you want, but Andy Samberg's got that New York Jew look, maybe you're attracted to that now! That'd be so nice for everyone.
My father: Says the convert.
Everyone: Hey!
My father: What? Oh, come on, don't look at me like that, I married her, I don't mean it as a bad thing. I'm just saying that you could meet a nice boy and turn him Jewish, that's all I meant.
Me: Oh my god, you guys, I'm not even dating anyone--what the hell is a "New York Jew look," Mom, do you have any idea how that--and that isn't even the weird part of the dream, how did this become--
My grandmother: We just want you to be happy, is that so wrong?
My grandfather: And a Jewish boy would make you happy.
My father: Okay, okay, let's not pile on. What was the weird part of the dream?
Me: Okay, so, this guy--who just looked like Andy Samberg, he wasn't actually Andy Samberg, and we were mostly "dating" by playing board games in his apartment--
My mother: What board games?
My father: How is that relevant?
Burrito: You didn't want to play a board game with me when you were babysitting last week!
Me: Little dude, Mario Party is not a board game, it's a video game, you'd been playing video games all day, I took you to a movie--
Burrito: I'm just saying.
My mother: Okay, sorry I asked, continue.
Me: Okay, no, so the weird part was that he was living in this college dorm, right, and he had this roommate he kept talking about who was never around, and then when I met him it was--
My grandfather: Rudy Giuliani?
Me: No--wait, Papa, why would it be--
My grandfather: Well, he shows up in my dreams a lot.
My father: Doing what?
My grandfather: Running for President, mostly.
My father: You have dreams about Rudy Giuliani running for President? He's a Republican! Don't tell me you're thinking about voting Republican again--
My grandfather: It's not an election year, I can think about voting for whoever I want--
My mother: Oh my god, okay, not going there. Who was Andy Samberg's roommate?
Me: Morgan Freeman.
My mother: No kidding?
Me: Yeah, he kicked my ass at Boggle like six times and then I woke up. This really didn't have to be that long of a story, you guys.
My father: You know what I think?
Me: I'm not sure I want to.
My father: I think--well, you know I think of Morgan Freeman as God--
Me: How many times do I have to tell you that you can't base a theological viewpoint on the movie Bruce Almighty--
My father: So I think that dream was God telling you to settle down with a nice Jewish boy.
My grandfather: I agree.
My grandmother: It's a sign.
My mother: Date whoever you want, sweetie. It would just be nice if he was Jewish, that's all we're saying.
My father: And try to make sure he likes sports this time. I never know what to talk to the artsy ones about.
Me: ....
Burrito: You gonna eat your hash browns?

HOW ARE THEY REAL, YOU GUYS, HOW IS THIS MY LIFE
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Date: 2011-02-19 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onthecount.livejournal.com
I AM DYING, OH MY GOD as;dlkfd

BUT SERIOUSLY I agree with your dad about Morgan Freeman.

Date: 2011-02-19 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
DJSGHJDSFG I AM SERIOUSLY LIKE, I ALMOST DIDN'T WANT TO POST THIS BECAUSE WE ARE SUCH TERRIBLE STEREOTYPES OF OURSELVES

fsjdkfhsdjfkh my father and I have this argument regularly because he like, brings up the fact that Morgan Freeman is totally god AT TEMPLE ON THE HIGH HOLY DAYS, and I am like OH MAN I DO NOT EVEN REALLY BELIEVE IN THE RELIGIOUS SIDE OF JUDAISM BUT THIS FEELS LIKE A CONVERSATION WE SHOULD MAYBE BE HAVING ELSEWHERE

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Date: 2011-02-19 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelgazing.livejournal.com
Making me laugh at this point is cruel. JSYK.

Date: 2011-02-19 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
I AM VERY SORRY, BB, I JUST NEEDED TO MAKE SURE TO SET THIS DOWN WHILE IT WAS STILL FRESH IN MY MIND SO THAT LATER, WHEN I WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THEM, I'LL HAVE THIS WHOLE EXCHANGE WRITTEN OUT AS IT HAPPENED DFHSDJKFHS

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Date: 2011-02-19 08:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snottygrrl.livejournal.com
okay, you don't know me at all, but i'm a friend of bina's and i was looking at her friends page because i'm trying to find inception icons and i thought she might belong to some communities that could point me in the right direction because search lj got me nowhere (tmi, i know), and this was the first post on her page and it totally, totally made me entire weekend.

just sayin.

Date: 2011-02-19 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
jfdshfsdj I APOLOGIZE FOR BOMBARDING YOU WITH THIS NONSENSE BY ACCIDENT dsjfsdf

For the sake of context: I regularly post about my, er, ridiculously crazy big Jewish family, because they are ridiculous and crazy and sometimes I need to write about them to remind myself that they're real people. Also, Burrito is the nickname I use on this journal for my 11 year old brother (my other brother is Burro, who missed this little exchange because he went to college in another city and ABANDONED ME WITH THESE CRAZY PEOPLE).

But, um, glad to have entertained? I'd like to say I'm not normally this nuts, but I am. I really am. /o\

Date: 2011-02-19 08:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] chaoticallyclev.livejournal.com
...I feel a little bit bad laughing so hard at this, (because, seriously, anytime I go to tell a story, just one as simple as "oh, mom I saw that girl you used to work with at school today. She says 'hi'." It turns into a conversation as exhasperating as this one appears to be. And it's--I used to believe that I needed anger management or something, because these conversations would make me SO FURIOUS, but then I realized that my family is just nuts and lives to annoy the hell out of everyone. so. there's that.)
but crazy families are...fun? if nothing else. VERY LITTLE BOREDOM. :D?

Date: 2011-02-19 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
Lmfao, no, laugh away, they are hilarious. AGGRAVATING BUT HILARIOUS, I love them so much for all I want to like, put my face down in my bagel and weep until they shut up sometimes dfdsjfksdsf

AND NO, VERY LITTLE BOREDOM. I AM NEVER BORED. Actually my grandmother's favorite non-Yiddish saying is "If you're bored, you're boring" :D :D :D

Date: 2011-02-19 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dremiel.livejournal.com
::having trouble breathing::

OH GOD! I LOVE YOUR FAMILY!

Also: Burrito is very wise!

Date: 2011-02-19 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
I love them too, LUNATICS THOUGH THEY ARE.

And Burrito is the wisest 11 year old of them all :D :D :D

Date: 2011-02-19 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illian.livejournal.com
. . . I'm sure I'll have some kind of response once I stop laughing like a hyena.

You poor darling.

Date: 2011-02-19 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
I NEVER KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM, gjdsfhdsf although to be fair I totally set myself up for this because I SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT COMING

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Date: 2011-02-19 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gelbwax.livejournal.com
I showed this to my dad and this conversation followed:
Dad: You should settle down with a nice Jewish boy.
Me: ...
Dad: Or a Chinese girl, I know they're more your type.
Me: ...?

I showed this to my mom and she said: "I hope her grandpa doesn't vote for Rudy Giuliani, he's a jerk."

I'M NOT SURE THEY TOOK AWAY THE CORRECT MESSAGE BUT WHATEVER, they think you're funny too.

Date: 2011-02-19 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
kdsfjsfhjsd oh my god I AM GLAD I COULD AMUSE YOUR PARENTS BUT PLEASE NEVER LET THEM GOOGLE ME, the amount of porn in this journal dfhsdjkfhkds

ALSO, TODAY'S MESSAGE IS APPARENTLY "EVERYONE SHOULD SETTLE DOWN WITH A NICE JEWISH BOY" WHAT EVEN

Date: 2011-02-19 09:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] vickita.livejournal.com
Now I'm craving hash browns.

Date: 2011-02-19 09:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
SO AM I, Burrito only asked as a cursory gesture before TAKING THEM AND EATING THEM ALL fdjshfjsdf

Date: 2011-02-19 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com
You seriously have the most amazing family I have ever heard of, oh my god. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but oh my god, amazing. XDDDDD

Date: 2011-02-19 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
They are just...I don't even know. SOME DAYS I'M PRETTY SURE THAT MY LIFE IS ACTUALLY A LARRY DAVID VERSION OF THE TRUMAN SHOW.

Also your icon OH MY FUCKING GOD, also I am sick of finding you awesome all over the everywhere and not having you friended, THAT WAS AN OVERSIGHT *friends you*

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Date: 2011-02-19 09:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] luthien82
*lol* This pretty much made my day :D

Date: 2011-02-19 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
Always glad to entertain :D

Date: 2011-02-19 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elainasaunt.livejournal.com
This made me laugh so hard I now have a stomach ache and think I will have to go eat something rich and sweet to make it stop. So it's, you know, your fault if I gain weight.

Date: 2011-02-19 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
I FEEL LIKE MY POSTS ARE CONSTANTLY CAUSING YOU HARM OR MAKING PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS WORSE, POSSIBLY YOU SHOULD STOP READING ME, I WISH ONLY HEALTH FOR YOU BB :D :D :D

Date: 2011-02-19 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com
I FIND YOUR POST ABOUT YOUR FAMILY TO BE OFFENSIVE TO JEWS

AND HASH BROWNS

Date: 2011-02-19 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com
ESPECIALLY HASH BROWNS >:E

DO YOU KNOW THE SHIT THEY GO THROUGH EVERY DAY

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Date: 2011-02-19 09:53 pm (UTC)
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Im actually crying rn lmaoooooooooooooooooooooo . Your family. My God

Date: 2011-02-19 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
THEY ARE LUNATICS, some days I can't decide if I'm the luckiest girl in the world or if I just have Stockholm syndrome :D

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Date: 2011-02-19 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mecurtin.livejournal.com
If you should want to be the female, less-skeevy Woody Allen, you have the material. Seriously, there's a really funny movie script just aching to come out of this.

Date: 2011-02-19 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
My family is so resigned to the fact that I'm going to write about them someday that my aunt actually got me a sweatshirt for Chanunkah one year that SAYS "Careful or I'll put you in my novel." :D :D :D

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Date: 2011-02-19 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elainasaunt.livejournal.com
OMG you're right. This is me trying to make you feel guilty! Why would I do that? It's because you're so good, I'll bet. I'm jealous or something.

I'll try to stop. :-)

*goes to look for something rich and sweet*

Date: 2011-02-19 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
I WOULD FEED YOU IF I COULD :D

Date: 2011-02-19 10:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanzando.livejournal.com
Well if it helps, my parents want me to settle down with a nice VIKING.

Me: A raping and pillaging one?
My Mom: Well rough sex is optional of course, especially since you're not into that. But a big, beefy, tall blond guy? Oh yeah.
Me: ... I think you might be projecting there. Also you're ace too. If you remember.
My Dad (who is tall, skinny, and has black hair), without looking up from his book: Yeah, she's projecting. I wouldn't mind one either though.
Me: I'll just quietly turn back to my book and forget this happened.

Date: 2011-02-19 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inesdelsol.livejournal.com
Introduce Alexander Skarsgaard to them :P

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Date: 2011-02-19 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emilianadarling.livejournal.com
Oh, good god, duckie! That was pretty amazingly hilarious. And it really struck home, too, in a lot of ways! (Aside from the "find a nice Jewish boy bits", my family can be equally nonsensical AND IT DOES NOT HELP KEEP THE CONVERSATION SANE AT ALL AMIRITE.) Oh, lord, that was funny. Magical.

(Also, there's totes a scene in the film "While You Were Sleeping" that you should look up -- with the family sitting around a table, having a completely absurd and disconnected conversation with each other. It's AMAZING and I think you would understand.)

Date: 2011-02-19 11:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
Oooh, I will have to check that out! I love movies like that--my family is in consensus on the fact that the saddest scene in all of film is that scene in American Beauty where they're all just sitting at the table not...talking...to each other. WE CANNOT EVEN FATHOM IT :D

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Date: 2011-02-19 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tomato-greens.livejournal.com
I'm usually a lurker! But you seem nice! And recently I decided to stop being such a lurker! This may or may not work out, but anyway, your family is horrifying and delightful and reminds me terribly of mine (mine's Irish and Italian, so it sounds much the same when we get together but replace "Jewish" with "Catholic"...or in my case, since I'm shy IRL too, "anybody"). :D

Date: 2011-02-19 11:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
Hey there! Welcome to non-lurker-dom, there is pie. Well, not really. But there would be pie if I could offer you some through the internets!

Oh, man, I dated a guy from a big Irish Catholic family once, it was like being at home only with less Yiddish :D

Date: 2011-02-19 11:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wheres-walnut.livejournal.com
I just want to make sure you've read the new Katie Forsythe fic. If not, a major indiscretion/catastrophe has occurred.

Date: 2011-02-19 11:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
...I'm sorry, what. WHAT. *flies*

Date: 2011-02-20 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theprophetrass.livejournal.com
(journal lurker here) Oh god, your family; I crack up at every one of your family stories. Mine's just mostly insultive...

Sitting on couch with grandpa knitting while he watches news.
Grandpa out of nowhere turns to me and says:

Grandpa: You take drugs?
Me: Wha? No...?
Grandpa: You don't snort cocaine?
Me: No, what the hell grandpa, I don't snort anything.
Grandpa: Well you sure are sniffling like you do, go blow your damn nose.

Date: 2011-02-20 01:17 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ravelqueen.livejournal.com
very much a lurker, but this is just too hilarious to not comment^^

if it makes you feel better, i think we managed to traumatize an entire family that was sitting next to us in a restaurant by talking about the different manifestations of fetishes (including an in-depth discussion about the getting-off-watching-a-woman-have-sex-with-a-dog-fetish) so I guess every family is crazy in its own way XD

Date: 2011-02-20 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ravyn-09.livejournal.com
Oh god. This conversation made me think of your life like it was a 'My big fat Jewish Wedding' lol

Date: 2011-02-20 04:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] professorkatze.livejournal.com
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA x 100000000

Date: 2011-02-20 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] windandcoffee.livejournal.com
lol your family is full of win. are you ever bored??? :D

*goes back to lurking...maybe*

Date: 2011-02-20 10:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] omgkris10rocks.livejournal.com
My gosh, your family is great.
I love these stories.
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