Hahaha, I'd keep shtum and let you do all the talking.
We're doing our utmost to get to Puerta Vallarta. I've even agreed to allow the dreaded brother-in-law move in to mind the animals for 3 weeks. One day I'll tell you that story. It's one that's definitely not for public consumption.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
I'm considering going. I hate travel and have never travelled far. Or alone. Love my pleasant mornings and breakfasts far too much. I've solved my biggest problem though - one of my daughters will take my dog while I'm gone. She's hard to board, minimally jabbed and unspayed and epicurean and all. Your being there would be a big plus. Please let me know...
I'd love to hear the brother in law story. And you'll be going for three weeks? I'm looking at a mere one week.
We want to go for a few months but the brother in law can get only 3 weeks holidays, so 3 weeks it is. We have the same non jabbed, non tagged problem with our dogs.
I'll let you know as soon as we book. It'd be brilliant if you could manage to come. It'd be like that Simpsons episode where online pals meet in person when the internet goes down and can find nothing to say to each other:)
oh I hope not! Although I may be dumbfounded in your actual presence. Oh god I'm going to get on a plane and travel to another country?! Forgive me if I chicken out at the last minute. I chickened out on a trip to Florida recently. I hate Florida. Loathed every single place I ever visited there. Awful. Even the weather sucked.
😄
No pressure at all. It'll be fantastic if it happens, if it doesn't no harm. I hate travelling myself, but I also hate not travelling:)
Where did you get this word shtum? I thought it sounded yiddish-y so I looked it up and yes indeed it is.
My father used it a lot so it's always been in my vocabulary.
I wonder if there were other yiddish words in the Irish lexicom. Look for "sht." Shtup maybe? To fuck? Shtum did move to Britain at some point, as I understand it, and was in general use. It is a good starting wordle word if recognized by the bot as word. Gonna try it.
Recognized! Gonna try shtup tomorrow.
Ah, you do word puzzles. So do I!
It turns out my father used quite a few Yiddish words—klutz, nosh, schlep, schmaltz, schmooze, schmuck, schnozzle, shtick, and shpiel, though I think many of these would be in general English usage.
My family was in the second-hand book trade for a time, and one of my father’s favourite suppliers was a Jew named Rodney Danker. It’s entirely possible he picked up some Yiddish from Rodney.