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Jewish humor, and so-called "
schlemiel jokes"
depict the
schlemiel falling into
unfortunate situations. The
inept schlemiel is
often presented alongside...
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programming practice:
Schlemiel (also
rendered Shlemiel) is to
paint the
dotted lines down the
middle of a road. Each day,
Schlemiel paints less than he...
- term "****" from
other Yiddish terms for
stupid and
inept persons:
schlemiel, schlimazel, and schmendrik, a
distinction not
properly drawn in dictionaries...
- Schlam****el; OED). The
difference between a
schlemiel and a
schlimazel is
described through the aphorism, "The
schlemiel spills his soup on the schlimazel." Schlock:...
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carpenter in the 1899 play
Children of the
Ghetto Schlemiel and
Shlimazl ****
Etiquette for ****s,
Schlemiels,
Schlimazels and Schmendriks, Forward, May...
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Larry is in many ways
reminiscent of the
schlemiel character in
traditional Yiddish folklore. The
schlemiel is
usually a
comic character whose actions...
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Charles discovers the
truth about Danforth's methods: he
performs a
schlemiel from town to town with the same
three performers in the
audience pretending...
- playwright. He
added some
topical material to a German-language
comedy Nathan Schlemiel oder
Orthodoxe und
reformirte Juden by J.
Rosenzweig (Ein Tendenz-Lustspiel...
- sell your
shadow to the Devil." The
story po****rized the
Yiddish word
schlemiel for a
hopelessly incompetent person, a bungler. The
story was performed...
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Shirley recite a Yiddish-American
hopscotch chant: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Schlemiel! Schlimazel!
Hasenpfeffer Incorporated." In D2: The
Mighty Ducks, Jan's...
