Schlimazelled by V.

[Richard Fiero]

A schlemiel needs a schlimazel for his game to be successful.
What's the point of a schlemiel spilling wine on the hostess' dress 
if there's not a husband schlimazel to state "Oh, that's okay."

David Morris wrote:
>"Schlimazel" must have been used in print long before Pynchon's V.  At
>least in some yiddish text...
>
>On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/daily-lexeme-schlimazel/
> >
> > Din't I once learn that there are 7 OED first-use in print 
> citations attributed
> > to
> > TRP?...including 'shrink"?