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Ororo Munroe's avatar

BWAHA. I love his responses. I use 'ish' in two ways: 1) In the form of time. As in "I'll be there about noon-ish" and 2) In lieu of swearing. As in "You'd better get your ish (shit) together or I'm leaving your ass at home." It's been a long time since I've been to a New Year's Eve party, but if I remember right, if I wasn't actively doing something, then I'd get bored and sleepy. I don't hold my liquor well (I come from a non-drinking family), so ringing in the new year with a champagne toast was out of the question. I'll take that Sparkling Martinelli's thankyouverymuch. LOL

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Love that you use ish instead of swearing. Hehe. Thx for reading!

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Obsidian Blackbird.'s avatar

Yes. My story is crazyish..and goodish

THE GIRL FROM THE ISLAND.

True and Nuts.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Sounds intriguing.

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The True Ish's avatar

Very enjoyable -ish read from an Ish (part of my last name), loving reading your tales of life.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

So Ish is part of your name? So funny. Love the Substack title pun.

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The True Ish's avatar

Believe it not it is. The name is pretty well known in the Midwest, so I call myself the “true ish” the oldest of the brothers and cousins

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

I love it. Where does it originate? Ir-ish?

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The True Ish's avatar

I m 100% American made and built, we are kind of mutts us Ishbia’s, beginning with Turkish, Spanish bd Italian and that is just my fathers. All I know is I tan easy and love Italian food,

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Ishbia! Nice. I wrote a few essays about Italy. My daughter will be marrying an Italian this year.

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The True Ish's avatar

Congratulations, what a beautiful place to be married. So beautiful, just love it. I doubt it will be a special time to cry in public.😄

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Vicki Tashman's avatar

Love the "ish!" I used it last night, lovelyish.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Hehe.

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Katharine Strange's avatar

Did you hear about George Santos claiming to be Jewish and then walking it back by saying he meant Jew-ish? 😂

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. Exactly. I guess we should be pleased when someone actually lies about being Jewish?

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Bill Southern's avatar

When living in Chicago, we could watch the ball drop in NYC on New Year’s Eve, and shave an hour off our evening - that was definitely “Happy New Year-ish.!”

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Perfect! And now with live streaming we can have a UK new years in the afternoon. Hehe.

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Alisa Kennedy Jones's avatar

I'm trying to excise "ish" from my vocab so that I get fewer notes on my scripts and books.

I have only bitter-ish boring legal blather from today :(

I always leave New Year's early because I am so madly in love with my bed and I am a short hitter when it comes to bedtime. When I was married I was so just happy to light sparklers with my husband and be grateful that we had found each other.

When I ask the kids about dating, there are a number who are clinging to each other because they fear for the state of the world... Others seem more set on carving their own path professionally. I definitely remember our generation having more overall hope... I don't sense that as much with kids now. But we've all been through a great deal.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Can we talk about beds? I love mine too. Best mattress ever.

My daughter is getting married and my niece is preggers; I’m focusing on hope for the future. 🙏🙏

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Alisa Kennedy Jones's avatar

Right there with you 🙏🙏🙏

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Holly Starley's avatar

In her early 20s, I used to tell my daughter she was adult-ish. In truth, that’s probably true of my sometimes to this day. 🤣

Thanks for the laughter, my friend.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

❤️🙏

“Used to…” Is she adulting now?

I think we all go thru phases of being adult ish. Does that mean we are childish?

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Holly Starley's avatar

Haha. Hopefully in all the best ways (our childishness).

I just don’t say it anymore. Bwahaha. Just kidding. In truth, she is adulting quite beautifully. In fact, I should make sure I tell her just how well I think she’s doing I these days. ♥️

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Mark Dolan's avatar

People who are enamored with words are well suited to writing. I am sure there are many of us who LOVED this and never said ish. My personal favorite is Finnish. I especially enjoyed how you captured the push and pull of communication with children. Fun.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Thx, Mark. Finnish or finish? The extra N makes a big difference. 😉

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Mark Dolan's avatar

That's why it is my favorite :) -- when it comes to pronunciation we also have Polish or polish :) -- I'm glad I settled in on Wednesday as my Substack day -- that means my comments will be relatively freshish.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. Love the double meaning. Whats that called? Polish/polish?

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Lara Starr's avatar

Ha! This Jew-ish gal ishes all the time. When moved back into my house after being displaced for two years because a giant oak tree fell on it (long story) my friends gave me a welcome mat that reads, "Welcome-ish, depending on who you are and how long you stay"

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

An oak tree! Yikes. And two years?

Love the mat.:)

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Lara Starr's avatar

It was a two-year NIGHTMARE (but I got lots of good stories)

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prue batten's avatar

Love it.

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Donna McArthur's avatar

Fantastic! I love all this info on ish and how you tied it in with your heritage! How your writing links random things together is amazing! I guess it’s the brain of a comedian🙂

My twenty something son and his friends had to walk in a blizzard to wake themselves up enough to reach midnight on NYE after a day in the mountains.

I love this pic of you and Dylan and that you used to live there!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Thx, sweetie. A walk in the blizzard would definitely do the trick. Loud alarm clock. Did they make it to the party on time?

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

"I’m not really a Jew. I’m Jew-ish. See? Please love me." << I died at this sentence 😂😂

I have never spoken in ISH terms but after reading this post I'm about to start. As for leaving NYE parties early? I don't even go to begin with. I went to bed at 10:30 that night and woke up pissed off at 12:01 because the fireworks woke up my dog 🤣

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Ugh the fireworks. Is your fur baby ok with the noise? I’m so relieved our pooch isn’t fazed.

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

My dog is weird. She doesn't flinch at thunder claps loud enough to bring a house down but if she hears one firework she goes into high alert mode lol.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Dog's name? Mine is Apollo.

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Great name! Mine is Dezi. AKA nerd, clown, stinky, etc

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Oh that's right. Dezi is a cutie!

Apollo has a few health issues. He had to see an orthopedist the other day. Can I just say, when the specialty vet group has a Picasso on the wall, we are paying too much.

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

🤣🤣🤣 And when your vet lives on a ranch in the countryside we are also owning too much.

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

My husband went through a phase not so long ago during which he said "ish" quite a lot, so often in fact that I considered buying him the picture book ISH by Peter Reynolds as a joke.

That same husband insisted on leaving the New Year's party early (the host, our daughter, was warned in advance, LOL). Does that make him boringish or just maybe oldish?

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

I must see this picture book!

Oy. Was hubby tired? Benefit of the doubt?

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

He is a letter carrier, so he’s extra tired during the holidays!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

He gets a pass. 🥰🙏

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C.L. Steiner's avatar

I only use ish before kabibble.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha! I forgot about that one.

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C.L. Steiner's avatar

Found this on Wikipedia:

However, there is a Yiddish expression, "nisht gefidlt," meaning "it doesn't matter to me," from which the term "ish kabibble" may derive.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Not sure how one mutated into the other but that’s Yiddish for ya.

I wish my mom taught us Yiddish but she had a painful memory associated with speaking Yiddish as a child and vowed to never speak it again.

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C.L. Steiner's avatar

My parents and grandparents used Yiddish as a secret language and so never taught us. My cousin was smart enough to listen and learn, but not my brothers or me.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

A secret language. That describes my gma and her friends.

When my son was 10 he wanted to learn. I found a book of Yiddish vocabulary. I’ll have to see if he remembers any.

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Jeannine Lawall's avatar

My mind is too literal to use "ish" (I'm pretty sure that's not a good thing!).

No goodish or good-ish stories today, sorry.

I've never been to a New Year's Eve party - I guess I'm not really a party-ish gal (there, I did it!).

I have no idea what's going on with the kids and their date scene these days and I'm not sure I want to know. It's very probably very much a don't ask, don't tell deal between the generations (heck, they would probably be horrified to know that their parents still have sex!).

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. I was horrified when my 87 yo single mom told me the 90 year olds are only after one thing.

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Jeannine Lawall's avatar

They do have viagra these days, just sayin'...

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Amazing. Yet not a lot of medical studies done for women over 75– I was just reading about this on Oldster mag.

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