My pleasure, Kenji. I think I had a post a long time ago, wondering if Jack's brother Tom was carved from the same hard wood as Jack, Kate, and Tom Sr. In INFERNAL, we find out. And I won't say another word! 
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:My pleasure, Kenji. I think I had a post a long time ago, wondering if Jack's brother Tom was carved from the same hard wood as Jack, Kate, and Tom Sr. In INFERNAL, we find out. And I won't say another word!
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*sigh* I really missed Kate while I was reading "Infernal." Too bad Tom Jr. couldn't have been the one to get blown-up instead of Kate.
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Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:My pleasure, Kenji. I think I had a post a long time ago, wondering if Jack's brother Tom was carved from the same hard wood as Jack, Kate, and Tom Sr. In INFERNAL, we find out. And I won't say another word!
No spoiler, please!
I will finish the reading of Crisscross in a few days. Then I'll start reading Infernal. 2005 is year of Jack to me!
From last week, I started reading Infernal. And, I have a question. Well, of course I'm not spoiler, and I don't need spoiler. My question is about "words".
Please tell me next words's meaning. I couldn't find out them in my dictionary.
E1A1
BQE
Gevalt
The schmucks
Zilch
Sorry for stupid question. :o
Please tell me next words's meaning. I couldn't find out them in my dictionary.
E1A1
BQE
Gevalt
The schmucks
Zilch
Sorry for stupid question. :o
Kenji Wrote:From last week, I started reading Infernal. And, I have a question. Well, of course I'm not spoiler, and I don't need spoiler. My question is about "words".Zilch = slang for nothing
Please tell me next words's meaning. I couldn't find out them in my dictionary.
E1A1
BQE
Gevalt
The schmucks
Zilch
Sorry for stupid question. :o
Schmuck = comes from the Yiddish for someone stupid, a jerk
BQE = initials for the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, a highway that runs from, you guessed it, Brooklyn to Queens
Oy Gevalt = Yiddish for something like "now what," or "holy cow," or "what the heck," or "yikes," usually said with a groan
I haven't read Infernal yet. "E1A1" is not clear to me.
Hope that helps.
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Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
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Maggers Wrote:Zilch = slang for nothing
Schmuck = comes from the Yiddish for someone stupid, a jerk
BQE = initials for the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, a highway that runs from, you guessed it, Brooklyn to Queens
Oy Gevalt = Yiddish for something like "now what," or "holy cow," or "what the heck," or "yikes," usually said with a groan
I haven't read Infernal yet. "E1A1" is not clear to me.
Hope that helps.
Thank you, Maggers!!!
Yiddish is well known language in America? Everybody knows it? By the way, you haven't read Infernal....yet? Can't you get Infernal in bookstores? Is it sold out or something else? :confused:
Kenji Wrote:Thank you, Maggers!!!
By the way, you haven't read Infernal....yet? Can't you get Infernal in bookstores? Is it sold out or something else? :confused:
Yiddish is certainly well known in New York City. I'm getting to Infernal, Kenji, don't worry.
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd
Kenji Wrote:Yiddish is well known language in America? Everybody knows it?Most of us know certain Yiddish words that have entered the English language, but we don't know the language itself.
Quote:By the way, you haven't read Infernal....yet? Can't you get Infernal in bookstores? Is it sold out or something else?The limited edition (only 500 copies were printed) is sold out, I believe. The regular hardback will not be released until November.
I have read Infernal, but I don't remember seeing "E1A1". Can you give us the whole sentence?
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BrettM Wrote:Most of us know certain Yiddish words that have entered the English language, but we don't know the language itself.
The limited edition (only 500 copies were printed) is sold out, I believe. The regular hardback will not be released until November.
I have read Infernal, but I don't remember seeing "E1A1". Can you give us the whole sentence?
I don't recall it either, Brett. Maybe E-I-A-I-O? :p
BrettM Wrote:I have read Infernal, but I don't remember seeing "E1A1". Can you give us the whole sentence?
In page 15, Jack met his dad at airport, then Jack said to dad, "What'd you do, come in on E1A1?".