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Angiepymytu is lurking on a three-year-old forum topic called "Most Uncommon Frum Names" , on a website called Yeshiva World News. Not sure what more there is to say here... A600KiloBear Inactive, per member request BS"D But are the Bahiyas named Batya for kodesh the way an American Batya might be known as Beth on paper, or has Bahiya become a kodesh name the way the French names have in Morocco? Annette is Chana, but there are granddaughters of Annettes who was born at the time the Alliance started in Morocco is called Annette and only Annette even if her parents are very haredi. Especially in EY, people do not even know that the name was French but think it is an authentic Moroccan Jewish first name - which I guess it is once the name is given in memory of someone. My friend's mother by now probably has (great)grandchildren named Annette for their (great)grandmother as per Sefardi custom. If you saw Rabbanit Annette shopping in Boro Park, the only wa...

Brooklyn Heights (FUCK Brooklyn Heights. Because why? Because SHUT UP Stimpy!) DUMBO (See above) The A/C trains NOT the E train (Wait what?) The fact that I had to even make this list.

Roman Polanski's Carnage .  Looking at the NYT review, the first paragraph alone involves whiskey, two young boys, a hamster, the streets of Brooklyn and the word "spry".  I literally read no more of the review.  Even if it's not Polanski's best, it's worth seeing.  That reminds me - did you ever see Repulsion?  You would like it and I want to re-watch it anyway. NOT the new film by the director of The Hours and Billy Elliot, Stephen Daldry.  This one centers around a nine-year-old New Yorker searching the City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father who died in 9/11.  The kid is a cute little science explorer very attached to his dad, aka you.  What's the problem?  Tom Hanks and -- t a k e   a   m o m e n t   t o   b r a c e    y o u r s e l f -- Sandra Bullock. The new and aggressively-advertised Charlize Theron movie, because it looks like Repulsion if Repulsion were a come...

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