Jeez, why not just comment on the bad comedy already...Last I checked a sense of humor about race, creed, and color hang-ups was one of the more popular stick-in-ass pokes-Sell that tired shit to Rivers and Silverman....Last I checked calling someone an asshole wasn't kosher decorum here on the Videoshift but I suppose hypocrisy does have has its merit. But seriously, don't really mind being called asshole if the shoe fits.

Says on that link that hymen is of Yiddish origin, means 'life.' Now Yiddish just happens to be one of my favorite dying languages btw and Christ could be sort of an asshole when he wanted to...

Freudian click, chicco.
and eric, I agree I like the man's schtick.
'A shtick (Yiddish: שטיק) (or schtick) is a comic theme or gimmick.'

I am the one of the only sifters on douche-patrol here, as I am often find myself under the threat of personal attacks and lame motherfucking reprisals when I freely state my opinions in the land of damaged-goods emotionalism and predictable histrionics.

HAH! Schlag has the same effect as schlagen for my ears (zzzzZZP!) and the yiddish have their word for it too....Schlock, derived form the Germanic 'schlag'

Schticky sounds yiddish

Your Yiddish lesson for the day.

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: I had to look that up.
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You, sir are a mensch.

Helluva story. Here's the whole thing from Wiki:

The Christie Pits riot occurred on 16 August 1933 at the Christie Pits (Willowvale Park) playground in Toronto, Canada. The riot can only be understood in the context of the anti-semitism, Swastika clubs and parades and resentment of "foreigners" in Toronto, and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in 1933.[1]

The riot, which lasted six hours, broke out after a quarter-final baseball game at Christie Pits Park between two local clubs, Harbord Playground, predominantly Jewish, and St. Peter's, a baseball team sponsored by a church at Bathurst and Bloor.[2]

The riot occurred soon after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and in the midst of the Great Depression. The Toronto papers, including the Telegram and the Toronto Star, as well as the Yiddish journal, Der Yiddisher Zhurnal, reported on how Jews were being dismissed as lawyers, professors, teachers, etc. in Germany, as well as incidents of violence against them. Thus to Jews the swastika represented degradation and physical violence against Jews, and was inflammatory.[3]

At that time, the Jewish community in Toronto was predominantly poor and working class. They were also the subject of discrimination and were excluded from summer resorts outside of the city. Jewish families and youths in particular would therefore cool off during the hot summer months by staying in town and going to the predominantly Anglo Beaches area in order to swim. This resulted in complaints and resentment from some local residents. Some of the locals formed "Swastika Clubs", which openly displayed the Nazi symbol to express their displeasure and make Jews feel unwanted.[4] The leaders of the Swastika Club initially insisted that the swastika had nothing to do with Hitler. They said they merely wanted to keep the Beach clean. After a meeting with Jewish leaders backed by City officials, the Swastika club agreed to drop its symbol and its name. At that point, several of the members joined the Swastika Association of Canada that was much more open about its links to Hitler.[5]

The night of the riot was the second game between Harbord and St. Peter's. Two nights earlier, at the first game of the series, a swastika had been displayed. Police were warned that there could be trouble at the second game, but those warnings were ignored. After the final out of the second game, Pit Gang members displayed a blanket with a large swastika painted on it. A number of Jewish boys and young men who had heard about the previous Swastika incident rushed the Swastika sign to destroy it, supporters of both sides (including Italians who supported the Jews) from the surrounding area joined in, and a fight started.[6]

The Toronto Daily Star described the event the next day:
“ While groups of Jewish and Gentile youths wielded fists and clubs in a series of violent scraps for possession of a white flag bearing a swastika symbol at Willowvale Park last night, a crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob and surged wildly about the park and surrounding streets, trying to gain a view of the actual combatants, which soon developed in violence and intensity of racial feeling into one of the worst free-for-alls ever seen in the city.

Scores were injured, many requiring medical and hospital attention... Heads were opened, eyes blackened and bodies thumped and battered as literally dozens of persons, young or old, many of them non-combatant spectators, were injured more or less seriously by a variety of ugly weapons in the hands of wild-eyed and irresponsible young hoodlums, both Jewish and Gentile".[7]
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No one was killed in the riots. There was criticism of the police for not being ready to intervene, as they had been during previous potential problems in the Beach area.[8] After the riot, Mayor Stewart warned against displaying the swastika and there were no further riots.[9]

The riot revealed the xenophobic attitudes toward Jews and other non-Anglo immigrants among Anglo Canadians. Jews represented the largest minority in Toronto in 1933 and were thus a target of xenophobic residents.

In August 2008, a Heritage Toronto plaque was presented to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the riot.

"Nosh" is from Yiddish and means "to eat", especially in the case of a light snack or an appetizer or something else that's less than a meal.

I've never heard the slang definition of "flapjack" that Michael explains. It's another word for pancake.

I learned "faff" from Zero Punctuation's Assassin's Creed review.

In case I'm not the only one not fluent in borrowed Yiddish words: Chutzpah.

My favourite part:

"The cognate of chutzpah in Arabic, ḥaṣāfah (حصافة), does not mean "impudence" or "cheekiness" or anything similar, but rather "sound judgment."" (The idea of a fundie Christian teabag-candidate accusing socialist muslim califate Obama of "sound judgement" made me giggle)

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Wonkette is even funnier:

Michele Bachmann went on Fox News for the third time this week to “not talk about her gay husband” and instead give her predictably ludicrous viewpoint that nothing will happen to the U.S. credit rating in a default because “we have money to pay it” in whatever way she thinks one pays for good credit ratings without paying off debt. Then she lectures the president for having a lot of “choot-spa,” because Michele has only ever heard of Jews, she has never actually heard Jews. Oh wait, and did she get the meaning wrong, too?

“The president doesn’t want to have to be confronted with priorities in spending, because he has a lot of chutzpah.” We are not at all actual Yiddish experts, but Google search seems to suggest that “chutzpah” is not used to describe someone who has giant avoidance issues. Rather, it usually means the opposite in either its negative or positive connotations. Oh well, everything else about Michele and Marcus “tiny dancer” Bachmann live in Opposite Land too.

is that Gaelic at 0:45? or Yiddish? ... maybe just indecipherable irish

blankfist said:
"Overly sensitive Jew alert. Nazism really gave some of them an unwarranted sense of entitlement."

did you actually misunderstand this guy? or are you simply incapable of holding back your unfounded anti-semitic rage just because a jew identified himself as a jew and commented on something jewish-related? your "overly sensitive jew alert" comment is silly. this guy is simply pointing out how ridiculous it is for BEP to incorporate yiddish phrases into a pop song, phrases that aren't commonly used.

Oy vey, what a tuchus!

Sorry, that's about all the Yiddish I can think of!

"Do you know what schmuck means in 'Jewish'?"

Um...I believe it's "Yiddish", you dumb cunt.

The song is Andrew Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

Yiddush song originally composed by lyricist Jacob Jacobs and Sholom Secunda in 1932. In 1937, Sammy Cahn heard a performance of the song, sung in Yiddish by African American performers Johnnie and George at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and on seeing the response, got his employer to buy the rights so he (together with Saul Chaplin) could rewrite the song with English language lyrics. He then convinced The Andrews Sisters to perform the song (recorded November 24, 1937), and it became a major hit.



This is the original Yiddish performance of the song.