Party People
Two items:
- I know I’m late to a lot of stuff — mainly because I don’t care about a lot of stuff that most people do care about — but I just found out about gender reveal parties. Really, people? Maybe I’m alone in this but I honestly don’t care about if, when, and how people are reproducing, let alone what sex their kids are going to be. And — even more honestly — if you do care then may I suggest you find a hobby?
- I saw an Indiana University student cruising down a sidewalk on a scooter this AM. He was sporting a red T-shirt with this emblazoned on its back: Anti-Socialism Social Party. I wonder if he’ll ever realize how utterly fercockter that whole sentiment is — and on so many levels.
A-a-a-and, speaking of yiddish, please read on ⬇︎
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Beyond Words
Musician Mike Cohen (no, not that Michael Cohen) treats us to this linguistics lesson (scroll down for translation key):
For you philistines too unenlightened to already know the English translations of the above mots, or too lazy to look them up, The Pencil provides this invaluable key for you:
- chazer — a pig; a piggish person
- ganef — (variant of gonif) a thief; a disreputable or dishonest person
- ligner — a liar
- mamzer — a bastard
- nebbish — a pitifully ineffectual, timid, or submissive man
- nokhshleper — an imitator; a sycophant
- pisher — a nobody; a child; a squirt
- putz — a stupid or worthless person
- schlub — a talentless, unattractive, boorish person
- schmegegge — bullshit, baloney, nonsense
- schmuck — (literally, penis) a foolish or contemptible person
- schnorrer — a beggar or scrounger; a layabout
- shande — a disgrace; embarrassing; shameful
- shleger — a thug
- shtarker — a big bruiser; an ape
- tsvuak — a hypocrite
You’re welcome.
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