What a schemozzles! All that Olaf wanted to do for his school essay was to begin with “What a schemozzles!” The computer spell-checker put a wiggly red line underneath the word. A right click on the mouse didn’t offer any suggestions; it simply said “Do you want to add this to the dictionary?” All that Olaf wanted was to know how to spell it. What a schemozzles!
A search online offered alternative spellings: chemozzles, chermozzles, chimozzles, schemozzles, schimozzles, schmozzles, shamozzles, shimozzels, shimozzles, shlemozels, and shlemozzles. In the end Olaf used “schlemozzles”.
The teacher put a red line through it with “sp” in the margin to denote a spelling error. So what was the right spelling? “Sp” in the margin was a fat lot of use.
As far as Olaf was concerned the teacher was a schlemiel. Or should that be schlemihl or schlemiel? A schmuck anyway. Or was that shmuck or shmuk? A schlimazel?
What a schmendrickous schemozzles.
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I like the wiggly red lines, but it sucks that they disappear in the printer.
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I have only a black and white printer – and I NEVER get a wigly lyne .
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Even the Irish get into the act. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-about-hiberno-yiddish-and-other-dialects-1.2452082
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I enjoyed the article thanks Yvonne – the whole shebang!
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…Schlemiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer, incorporated
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danke schön!
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gerne geschehen
sorry….Laverne and Shirley took me over
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A was a fan of Happy Days but never saw Laverne and Shirley! I’m not even sure if they showed it over here!
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Yes after I posted it…I thought…dam he will have to google that!
You taught me schemozzle….I thought you made it up or it was a yiddish word… A state of chaos and confusion; a muddle.
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Yes – I googled it – but I haven’t watch tv for 10/15 years except for major news events – like Biden’s Town Hall yesterday!
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You are better off without it! I do watch old shows like the Twilight Zone…
I avoid the news….I like to be happy! Of course you living New Zealand…the entertainment value would be hight!
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I would watch a lot more TV if they played reruns such as “I love Lucy” – but she’s disappeared because people smoked on set.
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But Bruce…we are not allowed to show history of any kind unless it fits with today extremist standards.
I have most shows “ripped.” I have around 3000 movies and tv shows because I work in IT and we share…
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We had a movie source tucked away secretly that we could download these politically incorrect things – but it has disappeared. Notice that they don’t show photos of Winston Churchill any more – because he always had a cigar!
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I don’t understand or comprehend the world we live in now.
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I hate such kerfuffle over a schemozzle!
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Yes – I agree. Such bruhaha!
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What a muddling affair.
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So much kerfuffle – as Uma said.
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Sorry you missed Laverne and Shirley. it was a great show populated with schlemiels and schlemozzles.
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They possibly had it in New Zealand. I have never seen “Friends” either – or any sitcom of that ilk.
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That’s the trouble with dictionaries. If you don’t know how to spell the word, how are you supposed to look it up to learn how to spell it? Poor Olaf.
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I once couldn’t spell “of” and ended up putting “ov” because I couldn’t find it in the dictionary.
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It’s under u for uv.
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That, Sylvie, is exactly right. What we pay for the supermarket lemon is astronomical. And yet lemons are falling off trees.
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