(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.”
Any others?“May a host of trojans come upon him.”
(Hey, I warned you this post would be nonsensical! )