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1. about 12 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   Not to mention Ladino! There was a movie:Every Time We Say Goodbye – a 1986 American drama film starring Tom Hanks and Cristina Marsillach. Hanks plays a gentile American in the Royal Air Force, stationed in mandatory Jerusalem, who falls in love with a girl from a Sephardic Jewish family. The film has the unusual distinction of being partly in the Ladino language. I liked it – it was predictable – but well done.What surprised me – early on – was when the nurses in the Jerusalem hospital were talking amongst themselves, I thought it was Spanish – but I missed every fourth word! ’Highly recommend!

   (Who am I, Roger Ebert?)

2. about 12 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   I meant it sarcastically, m’lady;-)

3. about 14 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   Thank you, and speaking of the word: “Bow”, there is a gastroenterologist with a 12 meter yacht in a marina in the San Juan Islands (I forget which one) that he’d proudly named: “Bow Movement”. . .

4. about 14 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   They did, whenever a man was suspected of being a Jew and perhaps was not wearing the required yellow rectangle with the Star of David, not only to stigmatize and humiliate Jews but also to segregate them and to watch and control their movements, while at the same time publicly branding them as socially inferiors. The badge also facilitated deportation. A somewhat unpleasant environment in which to live, don’t you think?

   Thank heavens things like that are not happening anymore.

   (sigh)

5. about 19 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   Or, interestingly, the actual state we call New Mexico is directly translated as:

   Nuevo Méjico

   Go figure.

6. about 20 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   Somewhat unrelated, Canadians do not order “Americanos” in their coffee shops anymore – they are now called, “Canadianos.”

   I delight in their patriotism – I used to be that way about America.

   On our next trip to that fine country (this May) – I might order one – even though I don’t care for overpriced watery coffee – but there’s a principle involved here!

7. about 20 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   When reasonable people support and vote in politicians with a backbone, common decency, and a belief in the American Way – and flush the others out through the septic system. In the meantime,

   “Buckle your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride, milady.”

8. about 20 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   MEDICARE have issued alternate Social Security-ish numbers because of too many instances of identity theft.

   I remember when, in the service (circa 1964), I read that new recruits were told to use their SS# as their Service Number, stamped on their dog tags and uniforms (including their underwear).

   My Uncle Harold proudly had his SS# tattooed across his chest. (Admittedly, he was a looney).

   (“I don’t have a tattoo – it would be like putting a bumper sticker on a Ferrari.”;-)

9. about 21 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   Nazi Germany figured any circumcised man must be a hated Jew – including some gentiles who did it for personal hygiene, with potential medical benefits such as a lower risk of urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted infections.

   THEN the Nazis tattooed THEM!

   Ain’t that a kick in the tuchus?

10. about 21 hours ago on La Cucaracha

    And that, my brother, is insulting to vermin everywhere.