12/14/2023 0 Comments Bad case of![]() ![]() It was used just twice in Usenet groups prior to the release of the movie to express hatred of Mondays, for instance -and once as case of the “Mondays” in a 1976 edition of the magazine Black Enterprise, which suggests the phrase has had some, likely spoken currency before Office Space. In response, a female employee (Jennifer Jane Emerson) states as condescendingly and annoyingly as possible that Peter has “a Case of the Mondays.” Case, here, is an “incident of a disease,” here imagined as the Mondays, the gloomy or sour mood brought by the responsibilities and obligations of a new week.Įspecially due to Emerson’s delivery of the line, Case of the Mondays became one of several quotable lines from the film and helped popularize the phrase.īefore the release of Office Space, Case of the Mondays appears rarely in the written record. At one point in the film, the character Peter (played by Ron Livingston) complains to his coworkers that he wants to get out of the office. This film satirized US corporate/work culture and middle management. This was certainly the case in the 1999 comedy film Office Space. In most American businesses, the 9-5, Monday-Friday workweek is still the norm over 100 years later. ![]() Rabbi Tuvia Berman is the Director of Institutional Advancement and a Ram at Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi.Ĭlick here to read about “The BEST” and to see the index of all columns in this series.In the United States, the five-day workweek (starting on Monday) goes back to New England factories in 1908. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!” This particular message is critical to us as Jews, living as a minority in a wider society.Ī Bad Case of Stripes functions as a beautiful version of the famous aphorism of Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, “If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. ![]() This work, highly regarded by the National Education Association, emphasizes classic themes like not bending to peer pressure and taking pride in one’s self. Why this is the BEST: Works such as A Bad Case of Stripes dovetail nicely with tradition. Of the myriad of works for parents to read with their children, ideal selections should stimulate positive growth while promoting Torah values. To be sure, children’s books are not all cut of the same cloth some present neutral messages while others suggest ideas which might run counter to Judaism. ![]() However, as has been documented, reading to young children promotes cognitive, imaginative, and emotional development which are core Jewish values. Given that attitudes towards childhood have changed in modernity, it is perhaps quixotic to search for precedence in Jewish sources for explicit support of this practice. One of the few descriptions of early childhood education appears in Avot 5:21, “Judah ben Tema said…At five years of age the study of Scripture at ten the study of Mishnah at thirteen subject to the commandments at fifteen the study of Talmud.” However, Hazal here do not relate to the modern phenomenon of bedtime reading. However, discussion of reading books with children in classical Jewish sources is non-existent. The critical aspects of reading to children: I recently reflected on my personal experience reading to my children and described the intimacy it generates. A little old lady cures Camilla by convincing her to eat the food she loves and to disregard what others think about her.Ĭonsumption Time: 32-page picture book appropriate for ages 3 to 9. Despite the sometimes comic failures of traditional and non-traditional medicine, her situation deteriorates. Eventually, she turns less human-like and almost completely disappears in to her environment. She becomes covered in stripes, stars, and checkerboard patterns. Her body changes in outlandish ways to reflect how she believes she appears to others. As a result, on the first day of school, she becomes ill with a seemingly incurable, yet colorful, disease called Stripes. Plot summary : Schoolgirl Camilla Cream loves lima beans but is afraid to reveal this to her classmates. The Best: A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon ![]()
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