| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 11:37:17 AM | Schlemiel is a Yiddish word for a dolt who is a habitual bungler.
Lots us us are a little bit like that. That includes me, at least occasionally.
The question then, for the fishpool, is:
Would you date a schlemiel?
Or do bunglers deplete your dating desires?
Don't be shy. Share your attitudes and experiences. I am sure there are some funny stories out there. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 11:39:46 AM | | Yes, I would definately date a Schlemiel -- if his heart was in the right place. All of us have faults -- and believe me there are worse ones! | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 12:13:46 PM |  I describe myself as the world's No. 1 klutz, so who am I to ditz a schlemiel. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 1:50:03 PM | I turn into a schlemiel every time I date someone I really like -- can't help it -- schlemielus maximus, for sure. I walk into walls, sit at STOP signs waiting for the light to change (d'uh!). So the way I see it, if a woman that I date doesn't want to date a schlemiel, then shut off the 'irresistible switch', so I don't turn into one.
My story ... stickin' to it ...
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 2:11:43 PM | | I was married to one for 37 years.....his ditziness was the initial attraction, it is not what made him unappealing after a time....it was his alcoholism..so yes I would date a schlemiel......one that didnt drink....... | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 2:12:19 PM | | Magickman, if you would just leave the skirts and hot pants home in your closet, most gals could overlook a few bungles. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 2:15:33 PM | lol. Sure. They can be a blast! On a first date it can be a great ice breaker.
Playfully calling them a klutz can disarm the most guarded to the point that you can see the real person. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 2:39:18 PM | | They can be charming, but I won't let them drive. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 5:56:24 PM | Ask any married woman... and she will tell you that her husband is a schlemiel. (or some similar term)
If she doesn't... she's lieing to make her husband feel good because she thinks he can hear.
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Married men will also have some "choice term" in common for thier wives.
Usually its said "my better half" when she can hear... But thats just a polite version of "Mrs Always Right"
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Face it... humans love to complain about our partners. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 6:12:42 PM | I once looked for my pencil for an hour - finally gave up. Later scratched my ear and found the pencil.
Yesterday I went across the street and ........ locked myself out of the house.
Bring her on - we can help each other come in out of the rain lol. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/12/2008 6:20:51 PM | There are plenty of women out there looking for a schlemiel ticket...
Oy! | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 12:34:27 AM | | A schlemazel is a person with perpetually bad luck. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 4:21:37 AM | Sure. Just my luck, though, I've more often ended up with a meshugener ~~
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Posted: 5/13/2008 7:03:41 AM | I don't have to worry about tripping over my own feet any more.
If he (not that I have a he) does, he can just fall on me.. I'm already down here. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 11:43:19 AM |
Sure. Just my luck, though, I've more often ended up with a meshugener ~~ Please help out the Yiddishly challenged. What's a meshugener? | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 12:08:22 PM | meshuggener : a crazy person (goggle is a wonderful thing)
and hey I dated a few of those myself | |
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Posted: 5/13/2008 12:39:49 PM | It would depend on how good looking they are. LOL.
Really, why would it matter? Unless everything they touched turned into junk..that would be too depressing. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 2:15:38 PM | I used to work with this guy I thought was cute, and was admiring him from afar and said to my friend, "Isn't JJ just DREAMY? Wouldn't he be great for me?" Right then, he ran in to a pole in the middle of the floor, and my friend said, "Yes, I think he is perfect for you."
Cassa "Falls down repeatedly" Go | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 2:23:47 PM | "he ran in to a pole in the middle of the floor"
Once, at a singles dance, I tangled legs with my dance partner, and the two of us went down to the floor in a heap. I was pretty embarrassed, but helped her to her feet. Luckily, I didn't kill her.
The moral is, when dancing in stiletto high heels, you have to be extra careful. | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 2:55:32 PM |
Posted By: CassaGo
I used to work with this guy I thought was cute, and was admiring him from afar and said to my friend, "Isn't JJ just DREAMY? Wouldn't he be great for me?" Right then, he ran in to a pole in the middle of the floor, and my friend said, "Yes, I think he is perfect for you."
He heard you... and was distracted by the mental image produced.
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 4:33:01 PM | hehe I guess I would qualify for the schlemel - you know what I mean. I'm kinda a goofy person and will goof up and drop something, bungle something and giggle at unexpected times. Have to have a sense of humor! 'cept I'm not a dolt though ...  | |
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| Dating a Schlemiel
Posted: 5/13/2008 6:09:53 PM | From Shalom Aleichem's writings, and much later Leo Rosten in Joy Of Yiddish; they defined schlemiel as the waiter who is always dropping a bowl of soup on the schlemazel of a customer, who always sits in the same spot every time which makes him just a little meshuggener
I'm just an Alta Kocker (old fart) who has more than a touch of all three.
Oh- and of course I would date one. It would be a mitzvah (good deed) to show kindness to the less fortunate. | |
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