<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Hi-ho, all. Particularly Ellen Muraskin.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>"A <i class="">shod. </i>(A shame.)”</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I think the word is “shond.” I think.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Carol</div><div>Who only remembers a few words in Yiddish. But tchotchke is one of them.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">Long ago and far away, for the Networld-InterOp Daily News, I was
asked to do an article on tchotchke. Usually, I wrote what *I*
thought was interesting. A request from ON HIGH, as the concept of
branding was coming into vogue, asked if I could do such a piece.
I demurred. It was an easy piece to write. <br class="">
</p><p class="">Few other pieces I've written have provoked such a strong
reaction, a cavalcade of tchotchke ratings, complaints, hoarder
museum pieces, and more. After everyone got past <i class="">WTF Is
Tchotchke?</i>, most everyone had an opinion, including:
recycling the stuff (the food chain of trade show t-shirts was
interesting), water bottles (Junior's going to look cool with this
in middle school), and the onerous: these are bribes with logos. <br class="">
</p><p class="">A couple of wags related how they waited until the show was about
to close, then offered extraordinarily low-ball offers to just
take the booth demo units home with them, sometimes benefiting in
the tens of thousands of dollars from weary booth personnel. Some
were gifted stuff, as in here, just take it. <br class="">
</p><p class="">Knowing the drayage costs, I can see why.</p><p class="">Tom<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/23/19 12:41 PM, Dana Blankenhorn
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Yiddish continues to fade, as Israel discourages it
in favor of modern Hebrew.
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<div class="">Modern Hebrew is surprisingly similar to Arabic, btw, when
you square off the letters. </div>
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<div class="">Also, Sahara means desert in Arabic. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:13
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote">On 1/23/19 9:09 AM, Steve Wexler
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> Chutzpah: "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible
'guts', presumption<br class="">
> plus arrogance such as no other word and no other
language can do justice<br class="">
> to".<br class="">
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I always think of the word as "leading with your chin, and
getting away<br class="">
with it."<br class="">
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