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Jack Hirsch		January 31, 2002

I hope that all's well with you. I visited the site today and, for reasons that are a mystery to me, I suddenly remembered a Yiddish phrase that my father, OBM, used to say. He and I would be watching a cowboy movie on TV (the 50s, black & white, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autrey, Roy Rogers, etc.) and near the end of the inevitable chase on horseback sequence, the bad guy (after firing ten or twenty shots back at the good guy) would finally run out of bullets. It was at this moment that my dad always (ALWAYS!) said, "Ois kah'-peh- ush mah' -cher!" This, of course, translates literally as "a hatter no more" or "out of the hat business" but evidently it can be used to describe someone who's reached the "end of the line" with no options remaining. It's a fond memory. Thanks for helping to make it possible.
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