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Yemach Shemo

(Beware: thar be silliness dragons beneath!)

It is a Jewish custom to utter the Hebrew phrase yemach shemo (“may his name be erased”) whenever mentioning a great enemy of the Jewish nation, past or present. For example,

“At that time, Adolf Hitler, yemach shemo, had risen to power in Germany.”

Last week I stumbled on an amusing comment over at the Or Gadol blog. In the comments to one post, blog reader Gene Shlomovich wrote of JerusalemCouncil.org,

Ah those guys – the only legitimacy they have is their domain name (may it be expired and not renewed, G-d willing).

“May their domain name be expired” – ha. I don’t think Gene intended it, but that gave me a laugh – it reminded me of the yemach shemo phrase. Kind of the 21st century tech equivalent, if you will. Amusing!

I thought of a few more techno-curses:

“May his website 404.”

“May the internet archive pass over his domain.”

“May his tweets be whaled.”

“May his hosts file be hijacked.”

“May his homepage be rickrolled.”

“May a host of trojans come upon him.”

Any others?

(Hey, I warned you this post would be nonsensical! :-D)