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I won't say he thought better of it, because "shlemazl" doesn't think better of anything or anyone.
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Once again the odious "shlemazl" has called me an anti-Semite.
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* [H/t "shlemazl," who has since blocked access to his blog] posted by Dr. Dawg at 10: 42 AM
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There's a pile-on at one of my favourite blogs: my longtime commenter Marky Mark is getting pummeled for no discernible reason, and the egregious "shlemazl" claims, of course, that it's all motivated by anti-Semitism, as is everything else in heaven and on earth.
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The boorish, semi-literate "shlemazl," whom I have allowed to post here despite his utter lack of civility, is banned as of now.
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Some time ago blogger "shlemazl" posted a little piece asking rhetorically what the difference is between the neo-Nazis and myself.
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As befits a member of the Blogging Tories, BT "shlemazl" casts a delightfully wide-ranging net:
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Over at Stephen Taylor's Blogging Retards, Israel fluffer "shlemazl" is seriously put out that some folks can't separate not liking Israel's current policy of Palestinian ethnic cleansing from simply not liking Jews:
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Blogging Tory "shlemazl" takes a stab at cultural punditry, with unsurprisingly disastrous results:
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He is being accused of being a right-winger, a nazi plant and even (the worst humiliation of them all!) of being me, i.e. "shlemazl".
chained_bear commented on the word shlemazl
... as any fan of "Laverne & Shirley" may already know... ;)
July 14, 2008
she commented on the word shlemazl
Unlucky person who suffers from overall haplessness. (Yiddish)
Differs from the also-unlucky, but clumsy shlemiel—"A shlemiel is somebody who often spills his soup; a shlemazl is the person the soup lands on."
July 14, 2008