From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 06:04:04 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
> > ... express velocities in horseturds per fortnight... {8^D spike
>
> > Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> > Due to the predominantly US membership, I made it in Her Majesties Royal units,
> > though I admit that even when I was in school in the 80's (high school physics),
> > english units were used at least half the time.
>
> Mike someone asked me the other day what was 7.4 meters in
> English units. I said very loudly "English schmingliiiish! Think metric!"
> Later someone said that to ridicule anything by saying anything-
> schmanything, or *-schm* is to ridicule Jewish people! The
> explanation is that yiddish is the only language which starts
> words with schm. Does that sound right to you? I had never
> heard that. My own ancestors are Jewish, some of em. I wonder
> if he was just making that up to be funny. spike
There is plenty of German that starts with Schm-, including the name for the MP-18,
called the Schmeisser. This was the main infantry submachine gun used by the Nazis
during WWII.
Whoever said that to you needs to get duck taped to an office chair for a day or two.
--
TANSTAAFL!!!
Michael S. Lorrey
Director, Grafton County Fish & Game Assoc.
http://www.lorrey.com/gcfga/
Member, Extropy Institute
http://www.extropy.org
Member, National Rifle Association
http://www.nra.org
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- General John Stark
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