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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Re: moyels and other stories. #142154 04/18/05 10:46 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City <<rub it...it becomes a suitcase>> But does it reach your destination with you or before you? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter But does it reach your destination with you or bef #142155 04/19/05 12:06 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Come again? TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: But does it reach your destination with you or bef #142156 04/19/05 01:23 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I couldn't possibly. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: moyels and other stories. #142157 04/19/05 12:19 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK Well, hopefully someone understands all that! What the blazes is a 'moyel'? Maybe, if I knew that... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: moyels and other stories. #142158 04/19/05 12:22 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York You tried looking it up, dixbie? [/run away] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: moyels and other stories. #142159 04/19/05 12:29 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK Nah. Too incensed. Maybe later! (Is it really a word? Sounds like a mushroom with a lisp) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: con carnage #142160 04/19/05 12:34 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 48 Central Ohio S Saranita newbie Saranita newbie S Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 48 Central Ohio This stuff is great! (The posts, not the chili, though I've wondered if Wendy's will eventually finger the woman for a false claim.) And speaking of chicken, if anyone has read "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo (or even if you haven't), he and his daughter share what they call "Empire moments" where they look for questionable wording in local signs and publications. I recall one example the daughter had spied in front of a restaurant: "Chicken smothered in barbecue sauce." Simply wringing its neck must have been ruled a bad idea. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: moyel #142161 04/19/05 12:34 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City A moyel (which I know as "mohel") is yiddish, or perhaps Hebrew, for the fellow who makes his dime circumcising Jewish males. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: con carnage #142162 04/19/05 12:38 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City To return to topic, for many years, across from the Port Chester, NY train station there stood a signed establishment called "Little Dick's Hotel." And, who knows but it isn't still there. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter "Little Dick's Hotel." #142163 04/19/05 02:14 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC is run by a moyel. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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