Born To Kvetch |
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My entertainment has always included an addiction to information, no doubt starting with 35 and 50-cent paperbacks when I was a teenager and, of course, a lot of books from the library. Even before computers and the Internet, I used to keep a lot of notes on things that I would look up later, when I got the chance to use a dictionary or other reference book. Once I had access to the Internet at my local library--I didn't have access at home for a good long while after that--I'd copy info off the Web and mail it to my email address. I could retrieve the info once I was home by using the old slow dial-up email system I had at first that didn't even include any Internet time--a weird configuration, hey? But not weirder than 35-cent paperback books! Nowadays, paperbacks are so costly than I don't even bother to look at them any more! |
And a Roadrunner, too
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Alice seemed almost as excited about our seeing new birds as we were seeing
them ourselves. On one of the first days we were there, she yelled
“Roadrunner...
16 hours ago
Hmmmm - I had to look up "kvetch" to start with. that's the 2nd Jewish word I've had to investigate in the past year or so - t'other was "mensch" - I guess that you're a bit of both - if kvetch can be a noun or could be nounified - not sure.
ReplyDeleteI sympathise with your feelings about using a different computer or OS - it feels like walking around in two left shoes for a while. :-)
Well, I'm left=handed, but that's no great advantage in the left-feet department!
ReplyDeleteI'm not Jewish, but I've found they have a lot of colorful, useful, and distinctive-sounding words!