blake murphy wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:42:02 +0100, "Ophelia" <O@nix.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:58:48 +0100, "Ophelia" <O@nix.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:15:56 +0100, "Ophelia" <O@nix.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Back when I was young and immortal and Richard Nixon was newly
>>>>> ensconced in the White House, I took a bus from Dallas to Mexico
>>>>> City. In Brownsville we switched from a US bus to a Mexican bus.
>>>>> I learned a lot about my mortality at night outside Ciudad
>>>>> Victoria riding behind the driver as he switched the lights off
>>>>> on the hilly curves so he could see the lights of the oncoming
>>>>> traffic. But later that night in the mountains of central
>>>>> Mexico, when the transmission fell out of the bus and our driver
>>>>> fixed it in the dark and changed his uniform out in the chaparral
>>>>> so he wouldn't look like a grease jockey after his ordeal, I
>>>>> learned a lot about maintaining your dignity in the face of
>>>>> mundane troubles. The guy was a mensch.
>>>>
>>>> well I don't know what mensch is but I hope it means something
>>>> excellent:)
>>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch
>>
>> thank you Modom:))) I agree, he was mensch:))
>>
> i recommend leo rosten's (the guy cited in the wikipedia article) 'the
> joys of yiddish.' the examples he uses for the definitions of yiddish
> words are often quite funny. it's also a useful book.

Thanks Blake:) I will see if it is available here:)