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Shamus, n. [Yiddish]:
A shamus is a guy who takes care of handyman tasks around the
temple, and makes sure everything is in working order.
A shamus is at the bottom of the pecking order of synagog
functionaries, and there's a joke about that:
A rabbi, to show his humility before God, cries out in the
middle of a service, "Oh, Lord, I am nobody!" The cantor, not to be
bested, also cries out, "Oh, Lord, I am nobody!"
The shamus, deeply moved, follows suit and cries, "Oh, Lord, I
am nobody!" The rabbi turns to the cantor and says, "Look who thinks
he's nobody!"
-- Arthur Naiman, "Every Goy's Guide to Yiddish"
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off
during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
-- Dave Barry, "Sex and the Single Amoeba: What Every
Teen Should Know"
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Shaw's Principle:
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will
want to use it.
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"She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to."
-- Gypsy Rose Lee
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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot.
-- Mark Twain
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She liked him; he was a man of many qualities, even if most of them
were bad.
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She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could
have poured on a waffle ...
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"She said, `I know you ... you cannot sing'. I said, `That's nothing,
you should hear me play piano.'"
-- Morrisey
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"Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have
taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an
excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature."
-- Samuel Johnson
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She's genuinely bogus.
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