Once upon a time we had, every morning, a bottle of lemon juice on the table, with a Hebrew label: Mitz Limon Meshumar.
Mitz = juice
Limon = lemon
Meshumar = preserved (like shomer, shmirah, shomer Shabbos... it means guarded)
Preserved Lemon Juice.
Every morning, this bottle wound up on the table in precisely the same position, so that all we could see from where we sat was Mitz Limon Meshu...
We found different ways to finish the word.
It would make a good exercise for people learning Hebrew... only you'd better use a different label, as I think we've pretty much exhausted the possibilities of lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshumar... preserved lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshupatz... renovated lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshuga... crazy lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshuchrar... freed lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshutaf... lemon juice in a partnership.
Mitz Limon Meshulal... lemon juice captured as booty.
Mitz Limon Meshuneh... bizarre lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshubad... subjugated lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshupar... beautified lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshulach... lemon juice dispatched on an errand (usually fundraising).
Mitz Limon Meshulam... lemon juice paid for in full.
Mitz Limon Meshulash... triangular lemon juice.
Mitz Limon Meshukatz... lemon juice afflicted by vermin.
Mitz Limon Meshum... lemon juice made of garlic.
Mitz Limon Meshurar... lemon juice sung-about (I am not sure this word actually exists).
Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts
16 December 2013
29 September 2013
Dark Mink
Some Israeli friends of mine were once invited to a wedding at which the color scheme for family members was Champagne. They thought that was hilarious: "Champagne? That's a color?"
I have lived among New Yorkers long enough that it no longer strikes me as hilarious that a wedding would have a color scheme, or that the color would be called Champagne... but I did get the giggles recently when my friend was busy calling bridal shops searching for a garment in Dark Mink.
"Dark Mink? That's a color? What color is a mink, anyway?" -- but all the shops knew exactly what she was talking about.
Giggle.
...whereupon we here in the Rain made a list of colors that we'd like to set as the color scheme for a party.
We tried to come up with colors that you can almost visualize... you're sure you know what color that is... except that, on second thought, you'd be hard-pressed to specify exactly what it is...
Faded Venezuela
Burnt Horizon
Blase
Arctic Grape
Then we got silly...
Pepper
Yellow Cup (as opposed to plain yellow)
Off-Orange
...and sillier...
Postmodernist Aster
Antidisestablishmentarian Pink
Yesterday's Backgammon
Mutual Fish
I wish I could take credit for coining the name Mutual Fish, but that is the name of a real fish store in Seattle.
Then we listed all the shades of yeshivish suits that the men might wear to this wedding...
Raven
Coal
Tar
Pupil
Times New Roman
Flat Tire
Black Licorice
Vivid Bat
I have lived among New Yorkers long enough that it no longer strikes me as hilarious that a wedding would have a color scheme, or that the color would be called Champagne... but I did get the giggles recently when my friend was busy calling bridal shops searching for a garment in Dark Mink.
"Dark Mink? That's a color? What color is a mink, anyway?" -- but all the shops knew exactly what she was talking about.
Giggle.
...whereupon we here in the Rain made a list of colors that we'd like to set as the color scheme for a party.
We tried to come up with colors that you can almost visualize... you're sure you know what color that is... except that, on second thought, you'd be hard-pressed to specify exactly what it is...
Faded Venezuela
Burnt Horizon
Blase
Arctic Grape
Then we got silly...
Pepper
Yellow Cup (as opposed to plain yellow)
Off-Orange
...and sillier...
Postmodernist Aster
Antidisestablishmentarian Pink
Yesterday's Backgammon
Mutual Fish
I wish I could take credit for coining the name Mutual Fish, but that is the name of a real fish store in Seattle.
Then we listed all the shades of yeshivish suits that the men might wear to this wedding...
Raven
Coal
Tar
Pupil
Times New Roman
Flat Tire
Black Licorice
Vivid Bat
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