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>It's amazing the amount of Yiddish we, even in England, speak regularly: "it's a bit of a schlepp", "he's a schmo/schlemeil", et al (forgive spelling). I love it. Many a put-down expression.>
>Its schlemiel and schlemazel. The first one is the waiter that drops the soup on the customer's lap. The second one is the dropee.
I looked up schlemiel and schmo this morning in the dictionary. They're both listed and both mean more or less the same: Schmuck :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
