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#213134 - 11/06/13 01:19 PM Blow, Gabriel, blow! [Re: jenny jenny]
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SCHMO or schmoe or shmo
PRONUNCIATION: (shmo)
MEANING: noun: A stupid, boring, or obnoxious person.
ETYMOLOGY: A truncated form of schmuck (an idiot), from Yiddish schmok (pen is). Earliest documented use: 1948.
NOTES: The word is also used in the phrase Joe Schmo, as a more colorful synonym for John Doe.
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[or Tom, Dick, or Harry, for that matter]
SACHMO - a more colorful trumpet player of yore. Definitely not your average stupid, boring, or obnoxious person. Loud, maybe.
#213144 - 11/07/13 03:25 AM Joined: Jun 2010
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SCHMOO- a lovable mythical animal that when fried tastes like chicken when roasted tastes like pig and when barbequed tastes like prime beef.
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(The whiskers make great toothpicks, too)
See The Life and Times of the Shmoo)
(published in paperback around 1949)
#213150 - 11/07/13 05:50 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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abominable.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#213151 - 11/07/13 06:39 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Abominable?
Shoot, Luke! Try boiling them in muscadine wine and you will find them absoLukely wonderful. Besides, there is something very noble in bowling-pin shapped animals whose only desire is to feed mankind.
#213154 - 11/07/13 07:37 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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----please, draw me a sheep----
#213155 - 11/08/13 01:14 AM Joined: Jun 2010
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PRONUNCIATION:(puh-GROM, POH-gruhm)
MEANING:
noun: An organized massacre, officially tolerated or encouraged, against a particular group.
TYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish pogrom, from Russian pogrom (destruction). Earliest documented use: 1891.
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POGRAM - an [OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT NOTICE] to old folks ordering their extermination so that thier benefits can be given to the po'.
#213156 - 11/08/13 03:00 AM Joined: Aug 2001
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POGOROM - Walt Kelly's opossum's computer Read-Only Memory chip set
#213161 - 11/08/13 10:28 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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PRONUNCIATION: (drek)
MEANING:
noun: Rubbish; trash.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish drek (filth, dirt, dung). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (excrement) that is also the source of scoria and scatology. Earliest documented use: 1922.
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DIRECKTOR DRECK - Famous Rap Singer
#213166 - 11/09/13 02:04 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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DRUCK - inebriated with a stuffed nose
Interesting that the week began with Bupkes and ended with Dreck, the one being minor version of the other
Kinda gives new meaning to the old drinking song:
Ach, du lieber Augustin, Augustin, Augustin, *
Ach, du lieber Augustin, alles is hin.
. Gelt ist weg, Gut ist weg,
. Augustin liegt in Dreck,
Ach, du lieber Augustin, alles is hin.
which translates loosely as
Oh, my dear Augustine, Augustine, Augustine,
Oh, my dear Augustine, everything is gone.
. Money is gone, Everything good is gone,
. Augustine is lying in the gutter. **
Oh, my dear Augustine, everything is gone.
* Because Augustine is feeling a bit green around the gills by now...
** (All right, if you insist, it means "Augustine is lying in shit." Why do you think they invented gutters in the first place?!)
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