Ish Kabibble!

Nick from England

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Aug 19, 2012, 2:14:33 AM8/19/12

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Thanks to a SMERSH operative I am friendly with, a mystery has been solved!
For years I wondered about "Ish Kabibble" which I think is Yiddish. On
Googling I discovered the term to mean "don't worry about it", but the
SMERSH agent was able to provide the etymological route via a Boris
Karloff/Kay Kyser movie!

No names, no pack drill but thanks, Comrade! :-D

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Athel Cornish-Bowden

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Aug 19, 2012, 7:12:04 AM8/19/12

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I've only come across Ishkabibble as the everyday name of the
International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of
Biology (officially abbreviated to ISHPSSB).

However, the page at
http://ishpssb.wordpress.com/ishpssb/origins-of-ishkabibble/ seems to
agree that it probably comes from Yiddish Isch Gabibble (I Should
Worry).

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Nick from England

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Aug 19, 2012, 12:11:22 PM8/19/12

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"Athel Cornish-Bowden" <acor...@imm.cnrs.fr> wrote in message
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4139812510_5b1f688690.jpg

LOL and this guy is called Ish Kabibble!

Thanks, Athel! :-)

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tony cooper

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Aug 19, 2012, 1:07:08 PM8/19/12

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Older Americans remember the name Ish Kabibble because it was such a
funny name. Some are old enough to associate it with the Kay Kyser
radio show, but I wonder how many know that Ish was a member of
Kyser's band and a cornet player. Ish Kabibble wasn't his real name,
though. It was Merwyn Bogue.

I had to look up his real name, but do remember the Kay Keyser Kollege
of Musical Knowledge show on television. We didn't have a television
when the show was on, but a neighbor did. I didn't care for the show,
but watching anything on television was exciting at the time.

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Nick from England

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Aug 19, 2012, 2:45:04 PM8/19/12

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"tony cooper" <tony.co...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Excellent, Florida Tony and the Kollege was in this movie with Karloff,
Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi and it wasn't bad - probably Kyser's finest
picture and Kabibble was quite amusing!

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John Varela

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Aug 20, 2012, 12:50:10 PM8/20/12

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On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:07:08 UTC, tony cooper
<tony.co...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Older Americans remember the name Ish Kabibble because it was such a
> funny name. Some are old enough to associate it with the Kay Kyser
> radio show, but I wonder how many know that Ish was a member of
> Kyser's band and a cornet player. Ish Kabibble wasn't his real name,
> though. It was Merwyn Bogue.

I too am old enough to remember Ish Kabibble (which until now I
thought was one word), but from radio, not television.

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John Varela

tony cooper

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Aug 20, 2012, 1:00:52 PM8/20/12

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On 20 Aug 2012 16:50:10 GMT, "John Varela" <newl...@verizon.net>
wrote:

He was on both. Radio from 1939 to 1949. I didn't listen to the
radio show. Kyser was on television briefly in 1949/1950, but it was
in 1956 that he started with NBC. Ish was in Kyser's show on both
radio and television.

Mona Lott

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Aug 20, 2012, 1:50:33 PM8/20/12

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"Nick from England" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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http://www.reference.com/browse/Ish_Kabibble