Religion in Denver? Surprising.... (loan, home, neighborhood)

[emm74]

There a book and everything!

http://www.amazon.com/Members-Tribe-.../dp/0553053086

Have you heard the expression "Jewish Geography"? That's another popular term - if you meet a new person, you figure out possible connections, like your cousin's friend who went to summer camp with their brother in law. If you work at it long enough, you can usually find some connection! lol!

[davebarnes]

Originally Posted by emm74

Have you heard the expression "Jewish Geography"?

Yes!
At college in 1967. (There were lots of greater NYC Jews in my engineering school).
Way before Kevin Bacon's time.

[Texas Ag 93]

Originally Posted by emm74

Member of the Tribe. Jewish colloquialism for another Jew.

We're Both Stapleton Jews? We should have a C-D meet up for coffee and invite Denverian too. He can be our gentile friend.

I agree that a lot of these numbers seem off the more I think about it.

[Texas Ag 93]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

Yes!
At college in 1967. (There were lots of greater NYC Jews in my engineering school).
Way before Kevin Bacon's time.

Jewish Engineers? That's kind of funny. Most Jewish men I know can't even fix anything. I know I should probably not stereotype my own people.

[ayoitzrimz]

Originally Posted by Texas Ag 93

Jewish Engineers? That's kind of funny. Most Jewish men I know can't even fix anything. I know I should probably not stereotype my own people.

I don't know about that. I am pretty handy, both with computers and DIY stuff. My grandfather was an electrician. I know you didn't mean it offensively but yea a person is good at what he or she is good at you know? From all walks of life...

[davebarnes]

Originally Posted by Texas Ag 93

Jewish Engineers? That's kind of funny. Most Jewish men I know can't even fix anything.

Don't doctors and lawyers "fix things"?

[Texas Ag 93]

Originally Posted by ayoitzrimz

I don't know about that. I am pretty handy, both with computers and DIY stuff. My grandfather was an electrician. I know you didn't mean it offensively but yea a person is good at what he or she is good at you know? From all walks of life...

I know, I was kidding around. You are correct, some things are innate, but a lot of stuff, particularly DIY, is learned from parent to child. You had family that valued those skills and passed them on, I bet.

[Katarina Witt]

There are a fair number of Lutherans among the church goers.

[ayoitzrimz]

Originally Posted by Texas Ag 93

I know, I was kidding around. You are correct, some things are innate, but a lot of stuff, particularly DIY, is learned from parent to child. You had family that valued those skills and passed them on, I bet.

Yea my grandpa taught me a bunch, mostly electrical stuff, until he passed away when I was 13 and I was good with computers for as long as I can remember. My dad (love him to death) can't even fix a loose door knob without having a meltdown

I keep an attitude of "I can always call a professional later, let's see if I can fix it myself. If I can't like I said a professional is one phone call away and I *may* have broken it further but at least I learned something" and it seems to be going ok so far - I fix more than I break, although I have been known to make a mountain out of an anthill hehe

[Mike from back east]

I guess I should try to earn my pay as a moderator ($Zero) and anally remind everyone that one of the least standard things in our nation are the statistics touted by one site over another as the beelzebub is in the details of when the stats were gathered, the size of the sample taken, the source of the stats, who gathered them, etc.