[78-L] You don't have to be Jewish, was Re: Here's a real bargain [fwd]
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 2 13:51:53 PDT 2012
Hadn't thought of that one. Next?
dl
On 4/2/2012 4:49 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> The Shmoo Song by Gerald Marks
>
> Cary
>
> On Apr 2, 2012, at 1:37 PM, "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> Disesteem, shmisesteem..
>>
>> Okay, pupils, name a pop song with a "shm" in the title. That will actually get
>> us back on topic because it was a 78.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 4/2/2012 4:33 PM, Mike Harkin wrote:
>>> In one of his on Yiddish, Leo Rosten comments,'What a symphony of disesteem is conveyed' by that initial shm-. Symphony of Disesteem.... Ya gotta love it! [somebody, somewhere, must have composed one!]
>>>
>>> Mike in Plovdiv
>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 4/2/12, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> Subject: [78-L] You don't have to be Jewish, was Re: Here's a real bargain [fwd] ^
>>>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>> Date: Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:57 PM
>>>> And while we're on this tangent,
>>>> here's a list of Yiddish-English
>>>> words..amazing how many of them begin with "sh" or "shm".
>>>> List, shmist.
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yiddish_origin
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> On 4/2/2012 3:43 PM, Mike Harkin wrote:
>>>>> Boy, the meshugoyim are coming out of the woodwork this
>>>> week. Lennick:
>>>>> I was about to mention that Shuga Records looked like
>>>> it was missing its
>>>>> first syllable -- great minds and all that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike in Plovdiv
>>>>>
>>>>>
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