From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 22:45:18 MDT
scerir wrote:
>Schmotons, hmmmm
>http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/photon/schmoton.htm
>
>"Schm". Or "Shm". Not a word, but a prefatory
>sound, that "pooh-pooh" the word they prefix.
>
True. Any concept or idea can be crushingly refuted, simply
by replacing the first consonant with schm.
> Holy-Schmoly!
>
This particular example is the lone exception. Firstly it is
misspelled above, the preferred being holy schlamoly, perhaps
to facilitate its pronunciation. Secondly, this example does not
specifically schm the concept of holiness, but rather is a robinization
of schm-ity. (Robinization, you will recall, is the term we attach to
the habit of holy-ing things, as Batman's sidekick was known to do
at every opportunity.) Still, this leaves us wondering with a certain
suspicion: what duties, exactly, is included in the job description
"youthful ward".
>Gosh!
>
>"Gosh" numbers...So that when
>you perceive the coincidence you say: "Gosh!".
>
All numbers are gosh numbers.
spike
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:16:32 MST