# A Pilot Is Grounded. A Lawyer Is Disbarred. A Doctor Is: **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987 "2015-02-06T17:55:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/81 "2015-02-07T17:24:16Z")
RivkahChaya, maybe you can answer a question for me. In an early episode of _All in the Family,_ Archie ’ s TV set conks out; he gets a repairman. He wants the set fixed right away, but the repairman is Orthodox Jewish and sundown Friday is approaching. Archie can’t convince the guy to stay and fix the set, and makes a slur against Jews. The repairman says (approximately): _“Sena leben en a hois mit a toizen Zimmers an boyek deeten in yeyde zimmer!”_ Since it’s been years since I heard this I’m not sure I have it right, but I’d like to know what the English translation is. Archie didn’t know; the repairman said “believe me, I got even!” ---
**Author:** ![Gretchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/82 "2015-02-07T18:07:00Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > An electrician is delighted. > [@Chefguy](#): > > I would have guessed “ohmless” or maybe “revamped”. How about “discharged”? ---
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A personnel director will become impersonated. An exorcist will be repossessed. A pancake maker will be flipped out. A laundress will be wrung out ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/84 "2015-02-07T18:24:08Z")
A swimmer strokes out. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/85 "2015-02-07T18:29:55Z")
And a dentist will get chewed out. ---
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A karate instructor gets kicked out. A judo instructor gets thrown out. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/87 "2015-02-07T18:45:09Z")
A pathologist ends up at the Y. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/88 "2015-02-07T18:53:35Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > RivkahChaya, maybe you can answer a question for me. > In an early episode of _All in the Family,_ Archie ’ s TV set conks out; he gets a repairman. He wants the set fixed right away, but the repairman is Orthodox Jewish and sundown Friday is approaching. > Archie can’t convince the guy to stay and fix the set, and makes a slur against Jews. The repairman says (approximately): > _“Sena leben en a hois mit a toizen Zimmers an boyek deeten in yeyde zimmer!”_ > > Since it’s been years since I heard this I’m not sure I have it right, but I’d like to know what the English translation is. Archie didn’t know; the repairman said “believe me, I got even!” You didn’t get it right-- maybe you can find it on youtube, or Hulu, or something. I think he’s basically telling him he can be happy in a home without a TV, but he can’t be happy in a home with a jackass. It sounds vaguely like something I’ve heard before, so it might actually be a Yiddish saying, with “TV,” subbed in for some older thing, and you didn’t get it quite right. I’m pretty sure, for example, that “zimmers,” is “zei mir,” and “sena” would be better rendered as “sineh.” How long ago did you see this episode? ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/89 "2015-02-07T19:17:47Z")
A pig farmer is stymied. A hat maker is decapitated. A puppeteer has his strings cut. A woodcutter is given the chop. A candy maker is unsweetened. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/90 "2015-02-07T19:28:24Z")
Door makers are unhinged. Philatelists are stamped out. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/91 "2015-02-07T19:55:52Z")
An editor is deleted, of course. A proctologist is disembowled. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/92 "2015-02-07T20:05:29Z")
Wow, any left? Let’s see. A patient is distended. A glazier is defenestrated. A ploughman is distilled. A Scientologist is dissected. A student is detested. A chiropodist is defeated. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/93 "2015-02-07T20:21:53Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > You didn’t get it right … > How long ago did you see this episode? imdb says it was [S2/E11](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0509939/), has this in Quotes: \*… Tzun a leben in a hoyz mit a toyznt tsimers aye zolt hobn a boykhveytik un yeder tsimer. (in Yiddish “may you live in a house with a thousand rooms, and get a stomachache in each room”)\* ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/94 "2015-02-07T20:33:04Z")
Mohels are tipped over Linguists are devoiced Funeral directors take a selfie ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/95 "2015-02-07T20:40:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > imdb says it was [S2/E11](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0509939/), has this in Quotes: > > \*… > Tzun a leben in a hoyz mit a toyznt tsimers aye zolt hobn a boykhveytik un yeder tsimer. > > (in Yiddish “may you live in a house with a thousand rooms, and get a stomachache in each room”)\* Oh, yeah; that’s a very common saying. I didn’t get that at all from what dougie\_monty wrote. All I could guess was “There’s no suffering in a house without a TV, but I wouldn’t want to live with [insult] you.” I really had no idea what “boyek deeten” was, so I thought it was a bad word I hadn’t been taught. ---
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> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Mohels are tipped over > Linguists are devoiced > Funeral directors take a selfie I believe funeral directors are encrypted. A virologist is debugged. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/97 "2015-02-07T21:24:43Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > You didn’t get it right-- maybe you can find it on youtube, or Hulu, or something. I think he’s basically telling him he can be happy in a home without a TV, but he can’t be happy in a home with a jackass. It sounds vaguely like something I’ve heard before, so it might actually be a Yiddish saying, with “TV,” subbed in for some older thing, and you didn’t get it quite right. I’m pretty sure, for example, that “zimmers,” is “zei mir,” and “sena” would be better rendered as “sineh.” > > How long ago did you see this episode? It’s been a while. The word which I think translates as “headache” sounded much like “book Dietrich” to me. Besides, when I was keying in that post, a neighbor’s noisy dog was barking wildly, and distracting me; and my experience with other dialects of German influences me. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/98 "2015-02-07T21:49:36Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > It’s been a while. The word which I think translates as “headache” sounded much like “book Dietrich” to me. Besides, when I was keying in that post, a neighbor’s noisy dog was barking wildly, and distracting me; and my experience with other dialects of German influences me. headache = kopveytik stomachache is boychveytik ---
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> [@Melbourne](#): > > …Physicists would be discerned… 🙂 Took me a moment. > [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > … > ETA for others who hate it, naturally enough, when jokes are made with punchlines in other languages: “bentsching”–pronounced “benching”–is a relaxed way of saying “praying (a particular prayer.)” I have no idea of its etymology. > > > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > > “Bentshen” is the Yiddish verb, and it’s a contraction, believe it or not, of “benediction.” It was a coincidence that the Latin loan-word in English happened to end a lot like most Yiddish verbs. The participle “bentshing,” and all other forms like “to bentsh” are so-called “Yinglish,” when a Yiddish word is treated like an English word by conjugation, or lack of declension. Or a shift in definition, the way Americans use “shmuck,” a very bad word to describe a very bad person, as a mild word to describe someone who in Yiddish would be called a shmo, or a shnook. > > > > Cantors are singers who are specially trained to lead Jewish services, chant Torah, and lead other parts of religious gatherings, like graveside services, or occasionally the prayer after meals, which is what “bentshing” is. Aren’t you glad you asked? Just want to add for those playing along at home: as I suggested in the parenthesis, but am not positive (hence the parenthetical hedge), “bentsching” is transitive: " when do we bentsch Licht"/say the prayer of light (_any_ ceremony where you light candles, come to think of it). The intransitive word for pray/praying used in Yiddish or English, is “daven/davening.” Take it away **Rivka** on etymology. ETA: just found this “Jewish-English” glossaryon-line. Needless to say there are superb ones in print. The strange-sounding title reflects the fact that Yinglish doesn’t cover all the loan words or concoctions in English. Besides Yiddish there is Hebrew, of course, bits of Slavic languages, and who knows what all. ---
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