I've read so many great books that it's really hard for me to whittle it down to five that I think are the best, so I'm going to go with the first five that come into my head. I'm guessing that the first five must have made the greatest impression on me, so it's a reasonable place to start a favorites list.

1. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut is probably the single most influential author to me. His protagonists and story lines always clicked with me. It was like he was writing them just for me.

2. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller. Everyone's heard of this one, and it's considered by many to be one of the best novels of the 20th century. If you haven't read it yet, put it next on your to-read list. Notice my first two novels are both set in World War II. I don't know if that means anything or not.

3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon. Considered by many to be Chabon's greatest work. I noticed you read one of his book's, dag. I think you owe it to yourself to read this one. I plan on reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union soon, because I've heard good things about it too.

4. The Trial - Franz Kafka. A dark novel, to say the least. To me it's about the absurdity of life and accepting fate. I don't believe in fate, but I sometimes wonder about the futility of existence. Can't help it.

5. The Foundation series - Isaac Asimov. Read the series when I was a teenager. The idea of being able to use science to not only predict but also control future events fascinated me, and that it was set in the future, complete with space travel, made it even more interesting. I liked how Asimov later was able to merge the Foundation series with the Robot series.

Other novels worthy of mention:

- Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller - Almost made the Top 5
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
- God Knows - Joseph Heller
- Something Happened - Joseph Heller
- Ringworld - Larry Niven
- The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

Well, I have no real interest in "censoring" any of this content, but there does seem to be a persistent confusion about the meaning of the channel. Based on the types of videos I have seen over the years, I have long assumed that the kids channel meant "about kids." In searching the channel, however, I see that many videos I recall seeing here have been removed. For example, many Wonder Showzen and Family Guy clips have been in the Kids channel over the years.

There are still a significant number of clips in the Kids channel that seem to be "about kids" rather than "for kids". For starters a search of NSFW videos in the kids channel turns up five videos.

Additionally, skimming the first two pages of the Kids channel turns up these videos which seem to be more "about kids" than "for kids":
http://kids.videosift.com/video/What-children-see-children-do-Powerful
http://kids.videosift.com/video/Uncle-Globey-Friends-tells-kids-harsh-world-realities
http://kids.videosift.com/video/Superman-on-what-Maybe-on-a-hot-dog
http://kids.videosift.com/video/What-one-day-of-war-in-Iraq-can-buy-instead
http://kids.videosift.com/video/Yiddish-with-Dick-and-Jane
http://kids.videosift.com/video/God-is-Dead
http://kids.videosift.com/video/Apaches-A-rather-gruesome-UK-public-awareness-film
http://kids.videosift.com/video/Child-Bankrupts-Make-A-Wish-Foundation

In the long run, however, it might be far more productive to alter the submission page in some way to clarify the purpose of the channel and to make a distinction between "for kids" and "about kids."

hey, i bees amazed, think of the total body-mind it takes to do it 100 meters up w/o a net.....Damn!!.....up- vote for yiddish, too.....

Thanks Choggie. Not sure the world is ready for Yiddish bushisms yet..

This was the most fascinating video I've seen. You really need to watch this and listen to the convoluted arguments. I love the fake NY yiddish accent and the number of times they said "Walmart"

And the generic, brain-dead, inbred views of Union = bad, and UN = some evil useless organization... No one would come up with those ideas on their own, they wouldn't care enough about the UN to even give a rats ass, but Heritage Foundation has declared from high that UN is bad, and other tenets of neocon.

Is Krav Maga a Yiddish word for 'Irish streetfights'?

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I've never understood Christian anti-semitism. Christ was a big Jew. I mean big time - , bagels and lox, matza balls the whole shmiel. (excuse my pseudo-yiddish).