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Something Our Parents Would Say What The Bubkis · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: those old saints, idioms, phrases. You know the things your
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  Speaker 1: family and friends usually said. And it came from out
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  Speaker 1: but you know what, they still carry a powerful PUNCHI today,
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I live by one of those old sayings.
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  Speaker 1: to help preserve not only a language, but lessons in life.
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  Speaker 1: My name is arrow. What's the bubkiss? Yeah, it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those phrases that actually means nothing zippo, a big
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  Speaker 1: fat zero. Yet we know people who actually use it.
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  Speaker 1: What the bubkiss? Well, it's usually used by those who
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  Speaker 1: are frustrated or surrounded by sarcasm or disbelief. What the bubkiss?
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  Speaker 1: It's Yiddish. It's derived from the Slavic word bubkey, meaning
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  Speaker 1: small beings or goat droppings, things seen, as well as
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  Speaker 1: experience that are absolutely worthless. It arrived in the United
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  Speaker 1: States in the late nineteenth century. The carriers were European
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  Speaker 1: Jewish communities. The Yiddish speaking immigrants made it part of
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  Speaker 1: their everyday street speak, vaudeville, everyday radio, and on stage
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  Speaker 1: live comedy acts, making it eventually to television and stand
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  Speaker 1: up comedy by the twentieth century. I mean you didn't
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  Speaker 1: need to know Yiddish to understand it. What the bubkiss?
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  Speaker 1: Its tone was meaning enough. Bubkiss is a permission slip
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  Speaker 1: to express disappointment and or anger without coming across as
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  Speaker 1: harsh or vulgar. It adds humor to a conversation, It
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  Speaker 1: preserves a culture voice, and physically normalizes honesty. In short,
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  Speaker 1: it's the sound of expectations meeting reality. What the bubkiss
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  Speaker 1: something our parents would say. My name is Erro.