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Top 10 (More) Habits of highly Yeshivish People
by : David and Kenny Rosen

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1. When explaining the ending of the Sixth Sense, you find yourself turning your thumb in the air.

2. While reading or studying, you inexplicably and arbitrarily break out into a chant of aiy-yaiy-yaiy-yaiy-yaiy.

3. When you are standing in line at J2, you shuckle as you read the menu.

4. When you see someone listening to a walkman, you ask "Which Torah Tape is that?"

5. You sing the words to every song at a Yisroel Williger concert.

6. When it's time to bentch, you put on your special bentching jacket.

7. You refer to Morasha Kollel as "MoKo"

8. To convey that you find something impressive or noteworthy, you look at the sky and make a snake sound.

9. You own the vowelized, non-vowelized and travel set of Mishna Brurah.

10. By the end of a Shabbaton you are sweaty and slimy.

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From Michael Kolat:


1. Coasting- Friday to Friday without a shower, of course if you cant take


before shabbos, you double-coast.





2. Wearing the same white shirt/ black pants combo for way too long. They


make think no one knows, but there's no way the same stain is on all their


shirts and pants. Dare we ask about boxers, socks, etc?





3. Playing with their watch, glasses, tzitsis or payis due to lack of


wedding ring to play with.





4. Yeshivish talk for any occasion,even when the people theyr'e speaking to


don't understand it.





5. Their Super Bowl is the seforim sale at YU.





6. Camp HASC  sweatshirt or a nerdy sweater is the only "penguin" garb aloud


to be worn.





7. Going to class is a no-no, especially in summer school even if theyr'e


not learning instead.





8. When forced to go to class, a sefer must always be present, they always


giggle when the professors call them by their English names.





9. On dates, they name drop all the shiurim they attended recently.





10. Always work on bettering their times in the 10 yard dash to wash their


hands before bentching, if theyr'e in your house and there is no mayim


acharonim cup going around, you get nasty looks.

From Chaim Rosenberg:
I concur. These might apply to a YU guy, but not a real yeshivishe guy.
For example, if you were to ask a real yeshivishe guy to explain 'The Sixth Sense' to you:
1) He's never seen it
2) Why did YOU see it?
3) After hearing you explain it, he asks kashas like, "And he never noticed he had a bullet hole the entire time?"

From David Alhadeff:
You give a Devar Torah and begin with a question. No matter what the question is, the answer........
A) pertains to learning and doing Teshuva
B) relates to bringing Mashiach and...........
C) Has absolutely nothing to do with the question asked.

From Jake: Yeshivish folks
ummmmm....To be very honest, Highly Yeshivish people have never even heard of Morasha Kollel, let alone know its nickname.... Or when you said "Highly Yeshivish people" did you mean "Very Frum YU folks"?
In which case I think there ought to be a new top ten for that category....