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...
1 day 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!