Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

I am sure Putz  is an old word, seem to recall James Cagney using it.

No doubt, none at all, it had somehow passed me by though, never once seen or heard it previously. Sheltered life, see?

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Lewis Collins passed away last week.

He was a huge star, back in the day, & had a quite "interesting" off-screen life, too. I think he just acted as if he was in real life.

I had not been aware of his background until I read his Obits. Obits care SO interesting. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Collins

He sort of faded off the scene after "The Profesionals", & ended up in Los Angeles, like a thousand other aspiring Hollywood movie-star wannabes. I guess being a film star is a bit like poker, in that so many strive for that one moment of glory which will propel them to fame & fortune. 

There must have been thousands of publicity pics of Lewis, usually across the bonnet of his oh-so-cool Ford Capri, toting a gun, & looking well hard. I think he'd like to be remembered that way, in fact.

RIP Mr Collins.


Very sobering.

Lewis Collins. I didn't realise he had shuffled off this mortal coil.

He's one of those 'people I knew', and the news of their passing always holds a morbid fascination for me.

He was an interesting character, trained with the SAS, almost became James Bond.... He was a bit like me in many ways, although careering around London in a Ford Capri looking for criminals can't have been nearly as exciting as careering around Sheffield in a Fort Transit van looking for scrap iron.

RIP Bodie.  

[tikay]

Incidentally, Ms Lawson is 54. This has no bearing on that story, or those photos, whatsoever, but she looks remarkable for her age. I hope I look that good at 54.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_Lawson

[Jon MW]

Mr Kendall, I am in very good health thank you (perhaps a little stressed out).  Just a ton of real life stuff on my plate atm, still trying to keep it all upbeat though (see diary for further deets).  Haven't really had too much time to play recently, but will hopefully be able to resume service as normal once I get my life sorted out.

I thought 'putz' was a really old-school internet insult (like really popular in the early days of the internets).  In my opinion, in times of serious rage, you can't beat the good old 'diagf'.

Can there be, by definition, such a thing? The internet only arrived 20 years ago!

Can't say I'd ever heard or seen the word before. I really must get out more.

I hope your real-life stresses soon resilve themselves. I do read your Diary, & in fact I read almost all the Diaries here, but you seemed upbeat enough to me. 

Isn't putz a Jewish term?

and I think you mean world wide web only arrived 20 years ago

I believe it is, yes. I checked via Urban Dictionary, & Wiki, which confirmed that.

I'm sure you are correct as to the www, though the pedantry (or should it be pedancy?), such a feature of forums, grates a little.

yes , but in this instance at least it makes a material difference - 'old school web' is a significantly different concept to 'old school internet'; even though the world wide web and the internet are such similar concepts by themselves.

[Tal]

A lot of these words are for people who are trying to be above their station. Those who have greatness thrust upon them, as it were, rather than either being born great or achieving greatness.

It's commonly trotted out that Our Dave and the others in the Bullingdon called George Osborne "Oik" because he went to St Paul's. Who knows whether these things are true.

[tikay]

Mr Kendall, I am in very good health thank you (perhaps a little stressed out).  Just a ton of real life stuff on my plate atm, still trying to keep it all upbeat though (see diary for further deets).  Haven't really had too much time to play recently, but will hopefully be able to resume service as normal once I get my life sorted out.

I thought 'putz' was a really old-school internet insult (like really popular in the early days of the internets).  In my opinion, in times of serious rage, you can't beat the good old 'diagf'.

Can there be, by definition, such a thing? The internet only arrived 20 years ago!

Can't say I'd ever heard or seen the word before. I really must get out more.

I hope your real-life stresses soon resilve themselves. I do read your Diary, & in fact I read almost all the Diaries here, but you seemed upbeat enough to me.  

Isn't putz a Jewish term?

and I think you mean world wide web only arrived 20 years ago

I believe it is, yes. I checked via Urban Dictionary, & Wiki, which confirmed that.

I'm sure you are correct as to the www, though the pedantry (or should it be pedancy?), such a feature of forums, grates a little.

yes , but in this instance at least it makes a material difference - 'old school web' is a significantly different concept to 'old school internet'; even though the world wide web and the internet are such similar concepts by themselves.

Quite so Jon, though I suggest it makes more difference to you than it does to most.

Are you really kinboshi, by the bye? You have similar traits, I often muse. Take it as a compliment, obviously.

Which reminds me, I've been reading about a remarkable internet - or is it web? - pioneer recently. Incred story. But first, some other stuff, nearer the top of the to-do-pile.  

[Tal]

Contrast that with my current least favourite word...


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[Karabiner]

Putz in it's original Yiddish meaning is quite a gentle almost affectionate insult a little bit like "daft bugger" might be used today.

It was adopted into New York 1920's slang and seemed to take on a little harsher meaning something more akin to "idiot" or "ice-cream" during the gangster era.

[tikay]

I've been watching a lot of nature documentaries recently, we must live in the golden age of nature docs. I only watch that sort of stuff, real life documentaries, & sport, these days, nothing else on TV much interests me.

Please do try & watch some of the "WILD" series.

Wild Danube

Wild Pacific

Wild Russia

Wild Atlantic

Wild China

Wild Africa

The photography is nothing short of stunning, & the voiceovers are the best I have heard.

We all love Attenborough's stuff, of course we do, but if you've watched a thousand hours of his stuff, it's good to see what else is out there. Really, the camerawork in the "WILD" series is breathtaking.

They show each episode, then immediately repeat it on "+1", then that repeats all day on a 2 hour cycle. I can happily watch the same editions back to back for 6 or 8 hours. Magnificent. Then, I return to the real world, & get insulted on a poker table. I give a shit.  

Animals are heartless beasts though. The big ugly ones - the crocs, hyenas, the sharks - always seem to eat the pretty ones, the deer, the fluffy rabbit or hamster. It's so unfair.

[tikay]

Putz in it's original Yiddish meaning is quite a gentle almost affectionate insult a little bit like "daft bugger" might be used today.

It was adopted into New York 1920's slang and seemed to take on a little harsher meaning something more akin to "idiot" or "ice-cream" during the gangster era.

BOOM!

There's the thing, you have nailed what I could not put my finger on. It seemed such a nice insult. Yes, thats it.

JNK was forever calling me a "daft bugger", and that was exactly as you say, an affectionate insult.

I dropped about £2 million on a contract in Leicester once, "The Shires Shopping Centre", & I had to go see him one Monday morning & fess up that I'd lost all that money. Like, you know, HIS money. And he was not overly fond of losing money.

So I sat there in his horribly deep sofa in his office - which was deliberately deep, to put you on the body-language defensive - & told him the contract had gone tits up, the Subbie had been arrested on fraud charges & was going to prison, & we were £2 million shy, never to be seen again.  

And then I knew I was OK, the moment he said it.

You daft bugger

He used to gently berate me from time to time, & my lip would drop, head down. Then he'd say "& stop sulking & acting like a spoilt child, you daft bugger".

I think I loved that man, so very much.

[horseplayer]

if you get the chance watch this Tikay

[Tal]

Schmuck is, I expect, a Yiddish term, too.

In German, it means Jewellery. How did it end up as an insult?

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Animals are heartless beasts though. The big ugly ones - the crocs, hyenas, the sharks - always seem to eat the pretty ones, the deer, the fluffy rabbit or hamster. It's so unfair.

I lolled.

When I'm watching nature programmes, Mrs Red always screams "Run.... RUN" at the gazelle, and hurls profanities at the predators. Two minutes later, the sight of a starving lion cub has her almost in tears.  

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Schmuck is, I expect, a Yiddish term, too.

In German, it means Jewellery. How did it end up as an insult?

Schmuck is the bit they throw away after circumcision.

[Tal]

Schmuck is, I expect, a Yiddish term, too.

In German, it means Jewellery. How did it end up as an insult?

Schmuck is the bit they throw away after circumcision.

St Catherine of Siena in the 14th Century was said to have worn Jesus's foreskin (the Holy Prepuce, if you will) as a ring on her finger.