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Odds are actuaries have interesting jobs. <\/strong><\/span> What could be better than figuring the odds on everything.<\/p>\n For instance, what are the odds I’ll rent a store to somebody more substantial than a tattoo parlor if I hold out?\u00a0 What are the odds I’ll get the gig if I reduce the size of the band?\u00a0 (I rarely do that. \u00a0The guys who get “reduced” don’t like it.)<\/p>\n We’ve turned down a lot of gigs.\u00a0 Takes guts.\u00a0 Musicians like to play.\u00a0 But you have to say no to low-paying gigs.\u00a0 Sometimes the client will counter with “it’s good exposure.”\u00a0 You’re supposed to respond with the old saw: “Many musicians have died from exposure.”<\/p>\n I’ve had stores empty for three years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I had a barber who wanted to put photos of “fades” in her window.\u00a0 No, it was more than fades.\u00a0 Tonsorial art \u2014 artistic designs cut into hair.<\/p>\n I let her in.\u00a0 She was a Puerto Rican Lesbian cage fighter.\u00a0 She had a couple tattoos on her face, like Mike Tyson.\u00a0 She said she was part Jewish.\u00a0 Maybe she was looking for lower rent.<\/p>\n The odds are you’re not Jewish<\/strong><\/span> if you say, “I have some Jew in me.” —- Odds are actuaries have interesting jobs. What could be better than figuring the odds on everything. For instance, what are the odds I’ll rent a store to somebody more substantial than a tattoo parlor if I hold out?\u00a0 What are the odds I’ll get the gig if I reduce the size of the band?\u00a0 (I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWhere are they now<\/em> . . . The cage fighter, Roman, still rents from me.\u00a0 She\u2019s solid \u2014 pays on time and has a great business.\u00a0 She was my building manager for a while but had to quit because she had no place for her dogs.<\/p>\n
\nChag sameach<\/span>
\nTomorrow:<\/span>
\nINTONATION OPTIONAL . . . What’s tuning?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"