On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:42:02 +0100, "Ophelia" > wrote:

>modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:58:48 +0100, "Ophelia" > wrote:
>>
>>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:15:56 +0100, "Ophelia" > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Back when I was young and immortal and Richard Nixon was newly
>>>> ensconced in the White House, I took a bus from Dallas to Mexico
>>>> City. In Brownsville we switched from a US bus to a Mexican bus. I
>>>> learned a lot about my mortality at night outside Ciudad Victoria
>>>> riding behind the driver as he switched the lights off on the hilly
>>>> curves so he could see the lights of the oncoming traffic. But
>>>> later that night in the mountains of central Mexico, when the
>>>> transmission fell out of the bus and our driver fixed it in the
>>>> dark and changed his uniform out in the chaparral so he wouldn't
>>>> look like a grease jockey after his ordeal, I learned a lot about
>>>> maintaining your dignity in the face of mundane troubles. The guy
>>>> was a mensch.
>>>
>>> well I don't know what mensch is but I hope it means something
>>> excellent
>>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch
>
>thank you Modom)) I agree, he was mensch)
>
i recommend leo rosten's (the guy cited in the wikipedia article) 'the
joys of yiddish.' the examples he uses for the definitions of yiddish
words are often quite funny. it's also a useful book.

your pal,
blake