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move your butt & check it out in the online dictionaries (if you are not a new yorker): tokhes: "backside, buttocks," 1962, an abbreviation of tochus (1914), from Yiddish tokhes, from Heb. tahat "beneath." in New York it all gets mixed up. here's a couple wisdom tags on Jewish Buddhism: > Sayings of a Jewish Buddhist > > If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? > Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? > Drink tea and nourish life; with the first sip, joy; with the > second sip, satisfaction; with the third sip, peace; with the > fourth, a Danish. > Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story. > Accept misfortune as a blessing. Do not wish for perfect health, or > a life without problems. What would you talk about? > Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then > what do you have? Bupkis. which leaves bupkis to be checked out in the dictionary. Pierre On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:40 AM, kasper salonen wrote: > I can't decipher "mueve tu tokhes".. or even be sure how it's > pronounced. > > KS > > On 16/01/2008, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> So I'm at the physical therapist's this morning (pulled tendon, >> nothing serious), where the staff is Dominican, like the >> neighborhood, though there are sizeable remnant populations of >> previous waves of immigration. An aide shouts out to another, "mueve >> tu tokhes." Wow. She told me that she and the other workers have >> learned a fair amount of Yiddish from some of the clients, and it's >> mixed into their everyday Spanish, along with some Arabic and >> Russian. >> >> Thus do dialects evolve. >> >> Mark >> ___________________________________________________________ The poet: always in partibus infidelium -- Paul Celan ___________________________________________________________ Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 71 Euro cell: (011 33) 6 75 43 57 10 email: [log in to unmask] http://pierrejoris.com Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________