Roberta
 
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Reply Sun 27 Nov, 2005 06:52 pm
goodfielder wrote:
Damnit I can't see the screen for the tears in my eyes from laughing Laughing


I left, but I had to come back. Why? Worrying, that's why. Worrying I'm good at.

Goodfielder, bubbele. Don't laugh so hard you get a rupture. Also, if you can't see, don't do anything involving machinery. You got a tissue? Maybe a nice handkerchief? Be careful!

Still worried, but I've done all I can do.
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goodfielder
 
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Reply Sun 27 Nov, 2005 07:18 pm
I should wait until I'm at work to rupture, oh wait, I'm there now, okay now I can split a gut Very Happy
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Diane
 
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Reply Sun 27 Nov, 2005 07:26 pm
Oy. You don't want Raboida to start with you, Deb. You have no idea what a yenta she can be. Be afraid, be very afraid. Or not, as she is also very, very sweet.

Hee, hee.....
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dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 27 Nov, 2005 07:28 pm
Roberta wrote:
dlowan, I told you I'm too busy kvetching to tsk. She doesn't listen, this girl.

I give these people the best seconds of my life and this is the thanks I get.

The migraine is returning.


So.....the lord giveth, the lord will take away.


Were the seconds firsts, or seconds?
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 06:36 am
So, Roberta puts herself out for a few seconds, and what does she expect? Applause? A goldeneh matzeveh? A potch in tuches, a zetz in kop, better she should get! Farshtunkiner alte machashefeh!
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 06:59 am
Gezundheit.
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 07:31 am
You think that you are funny, bunny? A gesundheit I'll give you? Better a frosk in pisk! If I died tomorrow, would you care?A cholyerah auf dir! Laughing
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Roberta
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 11:20 am
goodfielder, I'm glad your innards are still intact. You're at work? Be careful they don't catch you laughing. It's always something with you. I'm worrying about you constantly.

Phoenix, Don't get yourself in an uproar. Not nice is not nice. There's nothing you can do. As my family would happily reply, "Ich hubse in drerd."

Diane, I don't know what you think a yenta is, but it is nothing to be feared. Shunned maybe. I'm no yenta. I'm striving toward menschdom. though.
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Diane
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 11:50 am
Honey, you reached menschdom a long time ago. It isn't like you to be so restrained. Are you feeling well? A little chicken soup, maybe?

So tell me, what would a person who is frightening be called?
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Roberta
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 12:25 pm
Diane wrote:
Honey, you reached menschdom a long time ago. It isn't like you to be so restrained. Are you feeling well? A little chicken soup, maybe?

So tell me, what would a person who is frightening be called?


Diane bubbele, Thanks for the menschdom remark. I made a big shissel of chicken soup on Saturday. Still shlurping. It will last a while.

Am I being restrained? It's probably all the worrying I'm doing about goodfielder.

You got me with the question about scary. I don't know what you'd call somebody who's scary. Golems are scary, but I don't think they fit. Maybe Phoenix knows a good word.

(BTW, a yenta is a busybody, a gossip. Not so scary. Just a pain in the tuchus.)
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 01:08 pm
You wanna know what's scary? A yenta shviger, now
THAT'S scary!
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Diane
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 04:02 pm
Looked it up. A busybody mother-in-law. Now that's scary!
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Roberta
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 04:32 pm
I should be scared of a mother-in-law. One of those I don't have.

Many years ago I gave my parents "The Joys of Yiddish." I just remembered I now have it here. I looked for a good scary word. How does choleria grab you? Among its definitions is a nag of a woman who is exceptionally mean.

Not bad for a random look-see. I'll do some more perusing and see what I can come up with. Like I don't have anything else to do. I start a thread and all of a sudden my life isn't my own.
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 04:53 pm
Anyone know the definition of a goldeneh choseneh?















A finstereh yor, multiplied by 50! Laughing
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Mon 28 Nov, 2005 10:10 pm
Anyone know the singular of Hadassah?





















Yenta.
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 29 Nov, 2005 05:18 am
<Still reading & chortling>


Please continue....
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Tue 29 Nov, 2005 07:57 am
Definition of chutzpah- The guy who kills his parents, and throws himself upon the mercy of the court, because he is an orphan!
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Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 29 Nov, 2005 12:23 pm
Phoenix, That's exactly the example Leo Rosten used in his book to explain chutzpah. And why not? It's a good one.

I've been looking through the book and made a discovery. The Yiddish I know has a Noo Yawk accent. Where somebody else might say ferblungit, I know the pronunciation as fuhblungit. And speaking of ferblungit, this whole business is making me ferblungit.
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Tue 29 Nov, 2005 02:24 pm
Roberta- And I would say "fahrblunzhet". That's probably because you're from the Bronx, and I'm from Brooklyn.

Anyhow, I don't know if it was Rosten. or maybe Sam Levinson who gave a definition of fahrblunzhet, which no one would understand now, but was really quite sad, if you think about it.

fahrblunzhet- A kosher butcher in Scarsdale.
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Diane
 
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Reply Tue 29 Nov, 2005 08:23 pm
Phoenix, why is the word for a dosher butcher in Scarsdale sad? You insiders need to explain these things.

The difference between Bronx yiddish and Brooklyn yiddish is pretty wide. Amazing that a language or its pronunciation can change so much in a fairly small area.
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