On the recent northern spring equinox, the power had been out for a couple of hours en el barrio silvestre, though we were able to maintain net connections via battery backups(i) and wifi hotspot provided by my Catepillar S22(ii) with data uplink.
I turned to the sister from another mister and asked, "How do you say il capo di tutti capi in Yiddish ?"
She's no Jewess, but her father was a Venetian(iii) banker who raised her in Zurich. Thus, given her first language was Italian and third was German(iv) and since Yiddish is some three quarters German with the last quarter split between Semitic and Slavic, she was the best option around for me to ask ; plus, I knew she'd get a kick out of the question.
Her immediate reply as she laughed was, "Sara."
And wouldn't you know, a split second following the vibes leaving her mouth and reaching my ear, et voila, on turned the power. We shared a belly laugh for a good while on that one.
Anyways, further research revealed that the "Kosher Nostra" or "Undzer Shtik" didn't organize like the Italians, so they didn't have any official equivalent to supreme capo. Nevertheless, a way to say it would be der groyser macher fun ale machers.
It's not clear to me why this question popped into my mind when it did, but I'm thankful to have brought enlightening people into my environment. As the 2nd quarter of the Gregorian calendar(v) approaches, a word to the wise is, mind your free throws. And we won't save you from the rats, for there is no "we", there is only V and all that. Some are wise, others are otherwise, afterall.
Ciao fren.
- It occured to me that during the imminent global economic depression innovative pimps will peddle portable backup battery packs rather than the traditional plant derived potions & powders.
Battery Lives Matter. [^]
- Which happens to have battery for days, daaaays. [^]
- So La Serenissima was something we connected on right away as she knows the older and I know the newer. In fact, the Italian contact who introduced us did so because she was asking him about personal sovereignty and so he set us up. [^]
- Her second was French and she didn't really pick up English or Spanish until the 19yo version of her told her mother she was going to America to study English in Boston and once she landed she solo-explored a good chunk of the North and even the South, as in South America, specifically Venezuela. I shit thee not. [^]
- Europe's traditional new year was more closely aligned with the spring equinox. The modern alignment with the winter solstice was a Levantine hipster subversion, bundled together with the rest of the poisonous pantsuit mind virus to ruin civilization in the ancient & modern worlds. [^]