schmo

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President Bush tries to say 'l'chaim,' ends up looking like a schmo

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  • Why Agile Sucks - Contrarian views; must be better than just bitching about why some schmo couldn't get Agile to work. —  Hottest News Articles
  • I'd love to see her take on something, anything, completely outside the Hathaway canon: a schlumpily dressed, unprincesslike, unfeisty schmo. —  Slate Magazine
  • I mean, the bailout is like some working schmo getting a call from their rich uncle, he's in jail and wants them to drive down and post his bail. —  Doug's Darkworld
  • Paul Blart was wildly successful, and just last year, Keifer Sutherland played a security schmo in
  • The government is not the answer it never has been please read the constitution and the bill of rights. and just so you know I am a regular schmo working hard just like the rest of you. hctim84 Says: why don't you just admit that most of you believe in a socialist society and move on. —  Think Progress
 

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  1. From Yiddish shmok, penis, fool; see schmuck.
 

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