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Subject: Re: Need help with Sound Devices 722! slightly off-topicish
From: Lou Judson <>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:39:16 -0700
That sounds right on the mark to me! I first encountered it in very old
Mad pulps digests, along with Captain TVideo and Pogo-like drawings.
Long gone now for me...

Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
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On Oct 4, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Volker Widmann wrote:

> Hi Allen,
>
> I can maybe contribute from my native German that is somehow related to
> Yiddish. "Furshluginner" sounds a bit like verschlagener (same
> pronouciation), which means artful, mean or sly in a deprecating way.
> It
> sure fits!
>
>
> Volker
>
>
>
>
> Allen Cobb schrieb:
>
>> I'm told, by the usual unreliable sources, that furshluginner is
>> a deterioration of Greenwich Village Yiddish, meaning something
>> fairly crude and deprecating about the accompanying noun.
>>
>> ac



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