am planning to go ahead & give it a shot ... although it does not get very
cold near bombay
There are three Yiddish definitions.
A schlimazl is someone who can't grow pineapples in Hawaii.
A schlemiel is someone who tries to grow pineapples in Alaska.
A schmendrick is someone who tried to grow pineapples in Alaska; now he's
trying bananas.
Don't be a schmendrick.


Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much
that ain't so."
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885