The joys of Yiddish
Too funny...
Tonight at the Golden Globes, Michael Douglas called his father Kirk an altacocker.
Tonight at the Golden Globes, Michael Douglas called his father Kirk an altacocker.
It’s all coming back to me now
So you should know that I am not a “shopper”. I live in shopping mall heaven — I’m ten minutes from the Broadway Mall, 15 from Roosevelt Field and 25 from Whitman Shoppes — but I seldom go to the mall. I prefer to shop on line. And when I do venture into a store, I usually know what I want and buy it as quickly as possible. I’m not one to browse through stores just to see what’s for sale. There’s a local chain, Baked By Melissa , that specializes in mini cupcakes. They’re primarily in Manhattan. A few years ago Becca introduced me to their product - delicate little cakes, exquisitely decorated, very tasty. I walk past their shop on 7th Avenue whenever we go to the theater. Well, last week I remembered that they used to have a second shop on 7th, right next to the original shop, but selling gluten-free versions of all their cupcakes. The gluten-free shop closed, but the company continues to make a gluten-free version of their product. So I thought that gluten-free cupcakes wou
Had to look up altacocker.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on
I’m sure you weren’t the only one.
ReplyDeleteNo idea what that means.
ReplyDeleteIt’s Yiddish for “old man”. The nuance is that is a crotchety old man, someone known to kvetch (complain)
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