Comments on: Five Stars!

By: k3v72

k3v72 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:37:41 +0000

Me to ajtooley, me too. lmao

By: ajtooley

ajtooley — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:46:08 +0000

I like turtles.

By: David Kravitz

David Kravitz — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:32:29 +0000

Wally

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language is hardly the best place to look for the pronunciation of a Yiddish word.

As you have such a busy life, interesting reading on your past history, I have a serious suggestion for you to occupy your time. JewishGen has just republished a list of cemeteries throughout the world. I looked up the USA and find that there are no Jewish cemeteries in Montana listed.

Starting with Great Falls, that should keep you going for some time and would be a great mitzvah.

By: ajtooley

ajtooley — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:08:07 +0000

By: Walter Greenspan

Walter Greenspan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:19:15 +0000

ajtooley, according to the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language it’s pŭts.

You can find out what it means by going to http://www.pass.to/glossary/

By: ajtooley

ajtooley — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:44:27 +0000

So how should I pronounce “putz?”

By: david

david — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:10:33 +0000

sad grandma is right – which is precisely why Kravitz’s comments are so pathetic. You know the saying: “Can’t we all just get along?”

And by the way — Dona gets two thumbs up from me for calling Kravitz a putz. Yeah, she’s our Mayor and I’m proud of her. She may have some problems with day-to-day operations like any other Mayor does, but at least she’s not a run-of-the-mill milquetoast politician that hides behind cliches and empty words.

By: Sad grandma

Sad grandma — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:25:06 +0000

Isn’t there enough trouble in this world without having a milkhama/milkhome/war about the vowel sounds and syllable stress of a word? Today I went to the funeral of a 16-month-old baby, who died of a congenital blood disease. Her parents would have been grateful for more mazal, by any pronunciation.

By: David Kravitz

David Kravitz — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:24:21 +0000

Wally,

As I said in number 6 above, you are a know-it-all who is NEVER wrong. But as you choose to quote a URL in the posting immediately above, let me quote the URL content.

“An oft-repeated story claims that Ayn Rand took her last name from her Remington Rand typewriter while she was living in Chicago in 1926. This is false and we would like to put the error to rest. While still in Russia, c. 1925, and long before Remington-Rand typewriters were produced, Alisa Rosenbaum had adopted the name ‘Rand.’”

Wally, your parents gave you the right name.

By: MarkFL

MarkFL — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:57:03 +0000

I can’t comment on this. I’m too busy laughing at the fact that everyone acts like David (not Kravitz) never heard the phrase “mazel tov” before.

Yes, “putz” works the same in any language when used in the vernacular, but a lot of people say it without knowing the literal translation. (snickering)