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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 69 of 100 1 2 … 67 68 69 70 71 … 99 100 Go to page... Blow, Gabriel, blow! [Re: jenny jenny] #213134 11/06/13 01:19 PM 11/06/13 01:19 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,967 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,967 Worcester, MA 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. -------------------------------------------------- [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. So Spake Lil Abner... [Re: wofahulicodoc] #213144 11/07/13 03:25 AM 11/07/13 03:25 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny OP veteran jenny jenny   OP veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi SCHMOO- a lovable mythical animal that when fried tastes like chicken when roasted tastes like pig and when barbequed tastes like prime beef. here's what they look like [Re: jenny jenny] #213145 11/07/13 04:36 AM 11/07/13 04:36 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,967 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,967 Worcester, MA (The whiskers make great toothpicks, too) See The Life and Times of the Shmoo) (published in paperback around 1949) Re: here's what they look like [Re: wofahulicodoc] #213150 11/07/13 05:50 PM 11/07/13 05:50 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,158 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,158 Land of the Flat Water I guess I never got the humor. I thought they were abominable. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Re: here's what they look like [Re: LukeJavan8] #213151 11/07/13 06:39 PM 11/07/13 06:39 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny OP veteran jenny jenny   OP veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi 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. Re: here's what they look like [Re: jenny jenny] #213154 11/07/13 07:37 PM 11/07/13 07:37 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,158 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,158 Land of the Flat Water Reeks of cannibalism to me. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Let us be like shmoos and give ourselves to Art. [Re: LukeJavan8] #213155 11/08/13 01:14 AM 11/08/13 01:14 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny OP veteran jenny jenny   OP veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi pogrom 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. ---------------------------------------------------------- POGRAM - an [OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT NOTICE] to old folks ordering their extermination so that thier benefits can be given to the po'. speaking of art... [Re: jenny jenny] #213156 11/08/13 03:00 AM 11/08/13 03:00 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,967 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,967 Worcester, MA POGOROM - Walt Kelly's opossum's computer Read-Only Memory chip set Speaking of Talking Trash.... [Re: wofahulicodoc] #213161 11/08/13 10:28 PM 11/08/13 10:28 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny OP veteran jenny jenny   OP veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi dreck or drek 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. --------------------------------------------- add I add T add c DIRECKTOR DRECK - Famous Rap Singer Re: Speaking of Talking Trash.... [Re: jenny jenny] #213166 11/09/13 02:04 PM 11/09/13 02:04 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,967 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,967 Worcester, MA 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." 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