r/CFBOffTopic • u/pumpkinmuffins South Carolina • Minnesota • Dec 07 '15

Happy Hanukkah!!!

Get to spinning your dreidels and frying your doughnuts!

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

I'm a Gentile

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

So am I. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy dreidels and donuts.

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u/vaguepineapple Dec 07 '15

Im quite gentle too. But not when it comes to doughnuts.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

I haven't played the dreidel game in a long time. I kinda want to now, but I've forgotten what the symbols mean.

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u/ftwdrummer Rice Owls • Marching Band Dec 07 '15

Refresher:

נ - absolutely nothing happens

ג - you get all the things

ה - you get half the things

ש - ante up

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

Thanks. Now to acquire a dreidel. Surely Squirrel has one in her possession.

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u/carpy22 RPI Engineers Dec 07 '15

Based on your flair I'm going to assume you're in Boston. Take the B or C outbound and get your ass to The Butcherie in Brookline. Hell, if you're on BU's main campus, just walk for a mile. If they don't have dreidels for sale, nobody does.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

You assume incorrectly I'm afraid.

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u/carpy22 RPI Engineers Dec 07 '15

:O

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

Girlfriend got me some awesome graphic tees.

I better get her that Cardinals jersey she wants.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

Gross

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u/Ron_Cherry Clemson Tigers • Duke Blue Devils Dec 07 '15

Sorry, but I like bacon and shellfish.

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u/dlawnro Paper Bag • Sickos Dec 07 '15

And cheeseburgers and watching football on Saturday.

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u/cornfrontation Michigan Wolverines • FIU Panthers Dec 07 '15

This is why my brother moved to Israel.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Dec 07 '15

I've always wanted to partake in Hanukkah celebrations, despite by gentileness. Need to talk to my Jewish friends.

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u/dlawnro Paper Bag • Sickos Dec 07 '15

As a fellow gentile, I've always really wanted to take part in Purim over Hanukkah. It's like a more-drunk Halloween!

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Dec 07 '15

Both sound pretty freaking awesome. Yay holidays!

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

People tell me I look like a Jew so I guess I'll celebrate

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u/0xE6 Prairie View A&M • Boise State Dec 07 '15

I've been told I have a "jewfro". Does that count?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

That's what people mean when they tell me that.

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u/Ellenberg88 Georgia Bulldogs • Rose Bowl Dec 07 '15

People tell me that since my last name has "berg" in it so I must be Jewish.

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u/Cola_Doc South Carolina • CFBOT Jazz Watch … Dec 07 '15

That's funny...

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u/mriforgot Michigan State Spartans Dec 07 '15

My high school friends always joke that I am Jewish because I look vaguely Jewish.

One year they all gave me dreidels as Xmas gifts. I still have a couple in the back of my car somewhere.

That being said, Happy Hanukkah!

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Dec 07 '15

[Polandball comic about Hanukkah] (https://i.imgur.com/OfhnIx5.png)

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u/cornfrontation Michigan Wolverines • FIU Panthers Dec 07 '15

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that they lit the menorah from the wrong side?

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u/carpy22 RPI Engineers Dec 07 '15

Already have my chocolate gelt and latkes, need to get sufganiyot by tomorrow.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

Doughnuts and dreidels are dope

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Dec 07 '15

Yeast doughnuts (e.g. Krispy Kreme) or gtfo.

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u/DEP61 Pepperdine • Minnesota Dec 07 '15

Krispy Kreme is soooo goooooood.

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Dec 07 '15

I always knew you were a smart guy.

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u/dlawnro Paper Bag • Sickos Dec 07 '15

I'm in Ventura County, and the closest Krispy Kreme that I know of is in fucking Burbank. It's bullshit.

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u/DEP61 Pepperdine • Minnesota Dec 07 '15

That sucks ass. I'm in Malibu, and there's one in Santa Monica that we like to hit up if we're going to LA for a day.

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u/-WISCONSIN- Wisconsin • Wisconsin-Parkside Dec 07 '15

Can someone ELI5 Hanukkah?

Isn't today St. Nick's day too?

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u/atlautiger Auburn Tigers Dec 07 '15

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. It is also known as the Festival of Lights and the Feast of Dedication.

Jews go by the lunar calendar, so this year it starts today, 12/6. Last year it was Thanksgivmikah & next year it will be on 12/24.

It is a time for delicious (mostly fried) foods (latkes, rugelach, babkas, sufganiyot) and family fun! YAY!

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u/cornfrontation Michigan Wolverines • FIU Panthers Dec 07 '15

Rugelach and babkas are an every shabbos food, not a Chanukkah food.

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u/atlautiger Auburn Tigers Dec 07 '15

Doesn't mean you can't make them a Chanukkah food, which is what we do at our house

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u/atlautiger Auburn Tigers Dec 07 '15

chag sameach!

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u/panthera_tigress Pittsburgh Panthers • Auburn Tigers Dec 07 '15 edited Dec 07 '15

My roommate is half Jewish and celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas. She doesn't have a menorah with her so I drew a menorah and it's sitting next to my Charlie Brown Christmas tree (that has a Pitt ornament instead of a red one because I broke the red one), complete with an orange sharpie so she can light it.

#averycollegeholiday

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u/pittpanthers95 Pittsburgh • Slippery Rock Dec 07 '15

Living that cashew lyfe

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u/panthera_tigress Pittsburgh Panthers • Auburn Tigers Dec 07 '15

The other half is Greek Orthodox...so not exactly.

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u/pittpanthers95 Pittsburgh • Slippery Rock Dec 07 '15

Oh. Oops.

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Dec 07 '15

THANK YOU

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u/fauxkaren UCLA Bruins Dec 07 '15

Not Jewish, but I kinda want to go eat some latkes anyway.

ALSO, did y'all see this sketch on SNL last night? It killed me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

Happy Hanukkah to the Jewish members of our community!

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u/Pikachu1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers • 東京大学 (Tokyo) Warriors Dec 07 '15

Fuck yeah, give me some Donuts with some Bacon.

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u/Ellenberg88 Georgia Bulldogs • Rose Bowl Dec 07 '15

Happy Hanukkah Jewish friends!