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A Schmoe

Was born more than eighty-three years ago No bits, no bytes, just a neighborly hello Bits were wee pieces Bites gave you diseases Back when “friends” called you a schmoe

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 2/15/2019 9:01:00 AM
WOW this has to be a first with Schmoe in it...lol I used that word many times. One schmoe said to the other schmoe "you were born a schmuck"
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Jack Ellison
Date: 2/15/2019 9:10:00 AM
So you're familiar with that word! You must be from the last century!!! LOL!!!
Date: 2/15/2019 8:31:00 AM
I'm more of a shmoo girl than a schmoe girl ;) Good morning Happy Jack! Hugs! <3 mo
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Jack Ellison
Date: 2/15/2019 9:06:00 AM
How are you this fine Friday morning dear Miss Maureen!!! Schmoo, schmoe, matters not, you're my capitol lovey, sending you Friday hugs and love from T.O. XOXOX
Date: 2/15/2019 5:54:00 AM
Haha, must google that one. Good day Jack.
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Jack Ellison
Date: 2/15/2019 6:35:00 AM
Googled it for you... a schmo, "idiot, fool," 1948, euphemized form of a schmuck. schmo, "idiot, fool," 1948, a euphemized form of a schmuck!!! LOL

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