shmatz

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sorry. "One shmatz" is what he said.

  Urbandictionary.com has a couple of very recent defs (see also "schmatz"). Geraldo seems to have meant something like "jerk" or "s(c)hmuck."

  He appeared to be adlibbing, so the TelePrompter probably had nothing to do with it.

  JL

"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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Is this what happens when Fox teleprompts an Hispanic friend with
Yiddish? Schmatte? Schmutz?

And should that be "takes on" or "takes one"?

Joel

At 2/29/2008 04:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>On today's _Fox & friends_, Geraldo Rivera said in reference to Jack
>Ruby, "It only takes on / Smatz / to change history."
>
> New on me.
>
> JL
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