How well do you know your Yiddish?
Guess my reading Chaim Potok, being able to sing along with Hava Nagila and watching Seinfeld finally paid off.
Here's a personal anecdote; I was in FFA back in h.s. and raised a few show pigs. I made the sale with my pig my first year and sold it for a good price. The man who bought it had a metal supply company and did a lot of business with the company my pop worked for and dad also bought a lot of metal from him for his projects he was constantly working on. The man's name? Arthur "Artie" Aftergut, a nice Jewish man. I always thought that funny, even though he didn't buy the hog to eat but for a business deduction. Still....
Guess my reading Chaim Potok, being able to sing along with Hava Nagila and watching Seinfeld finally paid off.
Here's a personal anecdote; I was in FFA back in h.s. and raised a few show pigs. I made the sale with my pig my first year and sold it for a good price. The man who bought it had a metal supply company and did a lot of business with the company my pop worked for and dad also bought a lot of metal from him for his projects he was constantly working on. The man's name? Arthur "Artie" Aftergut, a nice Jewish man. I always thought that funny, even though he didn't buy the hog to eat but for a business deduction. Still....
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