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To: Tony Viola who wrote (8952)	9/18/2000 3:47:41 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Jim, cyclicalize, now that's a good one. I expect to see that in the next Websters as proof that the language is a living thing." Jeez, I thought that was a word...hummm.. RE:"So do you think Wall Street is fabricating these stories about PC and microprocessor demand slowing, when neither Intel nor AMD has said anything of the sort?" In a way, someone yelled "fire", the time of the year was right, so they all jumped out the window. Of course, I though this would start 6 months earlier than it did, March. RE:"I guess I'm the schmuck of the day. Did you know that the original meaning of the word schmuck is gold?" I didn't know that. Seems to follow though. Gold has been a real schmuck lately. Jim

To: Tony Viola who wrote (8952)	9/18/2000 5:07:32 PM
From: Paul Ma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I guess I'm the schmuck of the day. Did you know that the original meaning of the word schmuck is gold? Oh is it? Pulled from OED Schmuck schmuck §mAk (IPA §m^k). slang. Also schmock §mo(hook)k (IPA §mok), shmock, shmuck. [Yiddish; originally a taboo-word meaning `penis'.] A contemptible or objectionable person, an idiot. Hence schmucky a., objectionable, obnoxious. 1892 I. Zangwill Childr. of Ghetto II. i. xvi. 45 Becky's private refusal to entertain the addresses of such a Shmuck. 1945 G. Marx Let. 16 Feb. in Groucho Lett. (1967) 51 He doesn't know I can write, in fact, he thinks I'm a complete schmuck. 1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 132 But as I'm no shmock I deside to play along with her. 1963 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 July 9/1 Only the pay-TV concept..can break the hold of the `Madison Ave. schmucks, the Gestapo of the television industry'. 1967 D. Skirrow I was following this Girl xxxix. 241, I know that one schmucky swallow doesn't have to spoil the barrel. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 50 Art is the glory and only a shmuck thinks otherwise. 1972 J. Caine Hamlet, My Boy xi. 161 As soon as the shmock of a witness offered to testify on television. 1975 Harpers & Queen May 128/3 Schmucky agents and flacks and show-biz parasites. 1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxi. 239 Cully felt some anger that this guy was treating Merlyn like such a schmuck. 1981 Times 2 July 15/2 Mary Gordon is extremely funny about the beautiful Robert..and about the Woody Allen-like schmuck in the apartment below whom she sleeps with. Paul Ma the linguist!