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Subject: Re: [Leica] Don't Kvetch, Atone!
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:06:01 -0700
References: <000001c38481$4f547ad0$121afea9@Hausner>

One of the pleasures and interesting aspects of having done so many
model portfolios and otherwise having "discovered" some people who've
been able to go on and do something in fashion modeling is when they
come home for Christmas to Portland and I get to see them again and what
New York City did to them.
These sometimes are little button nosed blonds who had not come across
as particularly Jewish to put it mildly in more ways than one. But tall.
Anyway all of a sudden they spring out with Jewish Yiddish words or
expressions "lets kibbutz* over here" i seldom hear and barely know what
they mean as my Jewish connections are fairly washed out here in a more
bland American culture. (west of NYC) I think anyone living for any time
or born in new York City is by definition Jewish - I'm a Viet Nameese
cab driver knows more Yiddish expressions then I ever will and i know a
few. It's like the South of the US. Not so much a way of talking, no. An attitude.

Mark Rabiner

* In Yuppie this means "lets talk."
By the way if anyone uses the expression "we need to talk" on me they
will find a surprising reaction as that particular expression just
drives me wild and I go bizerko.
1. The suspense kills me. Why not just say it? Spit it out!
2. That's so Sweet! The insipid preciousness does me in. I can't take it.
3. I forgot.
4, Oh and it might be that we never really NEED to talk. But do so
because we are civilized and feel like it at the time. Preferably with
some spontaneity. 
Unless we say "Run! Saber tooth tiger! Run!" Then we needed to talk. In
case someone didn't see us running.

We don't say:
"WE NEED TO RUN!"

Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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In reply to: Message from "Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net> ([Leica] Don't Kvetch, Atone!)