Posted on 04/24/2015 4:41:30 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Word For The Day, April 24, 2015 -SCHLEMIEL
SCHLEMIEL
Noun
an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
Origin: 1890-95; < Yiddish shlemil < Hebrew shəlumīʾēl Shelumiel, a Biblical and Talmudic figure, one of the Judges. Specific historical references are unclear. In contemporary Hebrew, to do something in Shelumielesque fashion means so inept as to be destined hopelessly to fail.
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They're pathetic, but usually harmless. And let's face it, we've all been splashed once or twice.
No fair!
You copied my homework!!!!!
(But I thought of it first. 8<)
http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/diocese-greensburg-expected-make-major-announcemen/nk23D/
New bishop
Laverne & Shirley is where I first heard the word. I thought it was just “made-up” for the jingle. I loved that show and never understood why Milwaukeeans were embarrassed by it. Good fun.
Interesting, seems he’s an ethnic too.
Looks white to me.
I may be in the minority-but that Laverne and Shirley show made my teeth itch-I thought both of those women were silly and clueless-my 1st husband and I would change the channel when it came on, despite the whining of the cub...
I hope the ‘rat party finds
A schlemiel for comic relief-
One who is dumb enough to run
And bring Hillary lots of grief
A screaming Dean is just ideal
One who will break every rule-
One to push Hillary’s buttons
Until she reacts to that fool
And goes off without thinking
How really bitchy she appears
Giving driveby media more ammo
Than they have had in 7 years...
L&S was a strange show. Not one of my favorites, compared to the Happy Days, etc. that were in its same group of shows.
I didn’t find it amusing, but that could be a southwest thing-a difference in what is funny here versus there.
Part “I Love Lucy,” part I don’t know what. I guess groundbreaking for the idea of their being independent single women in the 1950s. But they were largely obnoxious.
I thought all of the Happy Days spin-offs were insipid and cutsey-like someone threw a bucket of Karo syrup all over me...
By the way-last night on El Senor de los Cielos, Casillas escaped execution by devising a deal to trade bigtime info on the rival capo/family to get the CIA to put his family into the Mexico version of secret witness, with him being transferred to a US prison for a couple years, then into the same program with them. Rival capo found out, tried to have him killed, and Casillas is on the run with his rescuer, a female federale. So he is out-I’ll be interested to see how the guy in Tyrant escapes his execution...
I liked I Love Lucy, but I was a child then-I don’t remember my mom being thrilled by it, though.
Thank you! I looks as if that woman crumpled the paper and tossed it-then had second thoughts and retrieved it...
the award for:
As is the case with the very best we write, scorned at first blush then retrieved to find a place of honor.
And that Carmine Ragusa!
“You know I’d go from rags to riches...”
Lucy was before my time. Saw it a couple times on rerun and never really got it. Guess you had to be there.
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