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Bob, it all makes sense now! Hence, "family jewels"? 
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Bob:
Of ocurse you are correct about the wonderful Yiddish word schmuck. It is a sort of derogatory term for a jerk.
Leo Rosten in Joy of Yiddish tells the story of the two fellows, slightly inebriated, who stole a camel from a circus and were riding it around town. One of them kept getting off the camel and looking between its rear legs, then clambering clumsily back op to the camel's back. About the fiftth time that happened, his friend asked what he was doing. The fellow replied, "I'm looking to see if it's true."
"If what's true."
"Everywhere we go, people keep yelling, 'Look at the two schmucks on that camel.'"
TEd
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TEdR - You seem to have misquoted the story in your translation of it (which may have been intentional)...but just in case: The first definition Leo Rosten gives is as an obscene word for the "male reproductive organ", and it was the SINGLE "schmuck" that was pointed out as the defining characteristic when the sex of the animal was in question...not to be confused with the gentleman on top {First pocketbooks printing-WSP-May 1970} (pps This post has been altered from it's original form, and a personal I blew it apology has been entered)
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