Joe Shmoe (also spelled Joe Schmoe and Joe Schmo; for which Joe Blow is sometimes substituted), meaning "Joe Anybody", or no one in particular, is a commonly used fictional name in American English. Adding a "Shm" to the beginning of a word is meant to diminish, negate, or dismiss an argument (for instance, "Rain, shmain, we've got a game to play"). It can also indicate that the speaker is being ironic or sarcastic.
This process was adapted in English from the use of the "schm" prefix in Yiddish to dismiss something; as in, "sale, schmale" (thus denying that the sale is worthwhile).
While "schmo" ("schmoo", "schmoe") is thought by some linguists to be a clipping of Yiddish שמאָק "schmuck",[25] that derivation is disputed.[26] The earliest known use of the phrase is the 1940s.[27]
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Guys I’m concerned about Lisa
Let Lisa live like Lisa likes, lookitsjustin!
Lisa gonna get them monster shits
look shes fine
Why do Americans consider it important to remember the names of these lakes?
Geography and common knowledge? I also had to learn the major rivers in my country as a kid
I need to feel smart when watching Only Connect!
Yeah but your country is probably cooler
only people living near the lakes would have them memorized, can't remember the last time I even thought about them lol
also worth mentioning it's a shitpost too
Do you not learn the names of your country's geography?
Not rote memorisation of the names of things, no.
that one's george, that one's john, that one's paul, that one's ringo, and that one's pete
I learnt it using the last letters of each lake
Ryan
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Licking lettuce right now really is a shit post.
L H E D
Lisa has explosive diarrhea.
Taylor Farms lettuce?
Hmm... SM HOE... can't think of a nice mnemonic here.
Shmoe. It's a japanese sub-culture about embracing cute things but they have to shut up about it
Well if we are talking about Japanese culture I'd like to throw in:
MOSHE
As in mochi. 😋
if the order is not important, you can also do SHEMO which in Italian it sounds like the word for "dumb" (scemo).
The simpler HOMES would like to weigh in.
mind = blown
That's interesting. I wonder if that's related to the term "Joe Shmoe" in the US. The term is used for an average person.
According to Wikipedia (may it live forever!):
Wish I'd known this one back in grade school.
So
Many
Hockey-Players
Eat
Onions
Suck My Huge Erect Ontario!
Some Men Have Erectile Overfunction
ICEBERG, DEAD AHEAD!!!
We... are in a plane.
I'd Love to Lick a Lemon Lollipop in Lillehammer
The one Thunder Bay is on. The one that has nice beaches. The one in the south. The one Toronto is on.
Oh, yes, and the American one.
the 'american' (michigan) one you could very well just ignore, if you just go off the fact that hydrologically, that one and lake huron are one lake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Michigan%E2%80%93Huron
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if you look very closely at lake michigan you can see the lettuce