Daddy, what\'s \'chutzpa\' mean?

[Shawn R. L.]

Well Jimmy, the best most perfect way I can explain it is with this - (AIG is one of the companies who just got BILLIONS of dollars to save the same companies they ran into the ground)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/travellog/2008/10/disaster_tourism_comes_to_cali.html

 

[Aliengod3]

That is what Jewish people say when they want to say someone has alot of pep or energy. But it could also mean arrogant.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Aliengod3
That is what Jewish people say when they want to say someone has alot of pep or energy. But it could also mean arrogant.

More accurate to say it means having \"Gall\" or a Brass Neck.
Never heard my Great-Grandmother use it for energy.

 

[evil tendencies]

I don\'t mind people partying as the ship goes down. I just wish they would do it without my money.

And my definition usually has the \"astounding arrogance\" meaning.

 

[Gilvan Blight]

I think Aliengod3 missed the point.

As I am about to as well:
I still remember how I learned the word Chutzpa meant. It was back when I was pretty new to roleplaying and picked up this amusing looking new game called Paranoia. In it one of the key stats the characters had was Chutzpa. It took me I think another 5 years before I learned how to pronouce it properly.

Back onto the point: that\'s pretty insane. I don\'t know if that\'s Chutzpa or jsut plain Stupidity. You would think someone would have said \"You know what, maybe we should put this off for a few months at least\" if not cancel it outright. Glad to see the executive aren\'t being affected much by all this mess.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

It can also be used to say the person\'s got guts/courage/balls/moxie. It\'s pretty situational, as I understand it.

 

[lizcam]

I knw that hotel well (I do work in the business) and if AIG is having financial discussions there ($300.00 a night for the cheapest rooms on the best sales) people should rise up with pitch forks and other mob impliments and go after the monsters! There\'s a nice Fourpoints by Sheraton out at the airport in LA that they SHOULD have used instead

 

[Zora]

Liz, are you trying to tell us you know all about cheap hotels/motels?

 

[evil tendencies]

Originally posted by lizcam
I knw that hotel well (I do work in the business) and if AIG is having financial discussions there ($300.00 a night for the cheapest rooms on the best sales) people should rise up with pitch forks and other mob impliments and go after the monsters! There\'s a nice Fourpoints by Sheraton out at the airport in LA that they SHOULD have used instead

There\'s an even better Motel 6 on Century by LAX. I mean, you sometimes have to put up with odd armed invasion robbery or live shooter lockdowns, but I think it would be appropriate for AIG to enjoy the actual fruits of their labor. They even have live, cheap entertainment walking up and down the street outside.

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by evil tendencies

Originally posted by lizcam
I knw that hotel well (I do work in the business) and if AIG is having financial discussions there ($300.00 a night for the cheapest rooms on the best sales) people should rise up with pitch forks and other mob impliments and go after the monsters! There\'s a nice Fourpoints by Sheraton out at the airport in LA that they SHOULD have used instead

There\'s an even better Motel 6 on Century by LAX. I mean, you sometimes have to put up with odd armed invasion robbery or live shooter lockdowns, but I think it would be appropriate for AIG to enjoy the actual fruits of their labor. They even have live, cheap entertainment walking up and down the street outside.

lollollollol

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by Zora
Liz, are you trying to tell us you know all about cheap hotels/motels?

Nope! I know about EXPENSIVE hotels. I\'m a high classed tart I am!

 

[Evil Dave]

Originally posted by lizcam
people should rise up with pitch forks and other mob impliments and go after the monsters!

Yes! We should, plus I bought stocks in pitchforks and torches.

 

[Zora]

Originally posted by lizcam

[ I\'m a high classed tart I am!

And expensive, too!

 

[generulpoleaxe]

and the US goverment never saw this coming lol
here mr director, hear is a lot of money to help your company that you and your board have run into the ground whilst giving yourselves huge bonuses and fat paychecks.

lollol

politicians are so dumb

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach

Originally posted by Aliengod3
That is what Jewish people say when they want to say someone has alot of pep or energy. But it could also mean arrogant.

More accurate to say it means having \"Gall\" or a Brass Neck.
Never heard my Great-Grandmother use it for energy.

This would be supported by this portion of the entry for chutzpa in Hooray For Yiddish by Leo Rosten:

This quintessential word, too arrogant to synonymise, has been accepted (and gratefully) in English. It will be found in a considerable number of legal briefs and judicial rulings. (They are gleefully mailed to me by lawyers, with marginal notes like Mazel tov!, Wow! or Mon Dieu!) I received such a U.S. Court of Appeals decision, sent to me from a professor of constitutional law in (believe me) Corpus Christi.

Definitions of chutzpa spring up like weeds: the classic, of course, goes: Chutzpa is the quality shown by the man who murders his mother and father, then asks the judge to forgive a poor orphan.

Einion

 

[Aliengod3]

Obviously there are multiple meanings that we have all heard. I will stick with what I read on Dictionary.com as well as what I heard in a song by Weird Al about jewish people.

 

[Theomar Pius]

I\'m not saying it was illegal, but it was certainly quite immoral. Those guys should all be fired, and put a lot of time in at confession.