Our office building at 26 Federal Plaza was just evacuated. One of my clerks said he heard banging noises and then saw people running from the building. I looked into the hall and saw the staff of the security office next door running out. No PA announcement, no evidence of standard fire-drill type emergency procedures. It turned out to be noise from some construction equipment. They let us back in after about twenty minutes, and made an announcement that construction noises on the 14th floor may be ongoing. Didn't tell us how to distinguish between construction and terror noises. People are a bit edgy around here.
I can just picture the security haulling ass out of there. Bad scene. Jiesh!
Excuse me, but I believe that "jiesh" (sp?) along with "geeze" etc. is a bowdlerized rendering of "Jesus"; a mollified form of taking the name in vain, reference to which might offend our Moslem friends. It's sort of like Norman Mailer having to substitute "fug" for "fuck" in The Naked & the Dead. Not sure about "yeesh" which sounds Yiddish. It might be "Joshua" (or "Yeshua", or some such) but that was actually Jesus' name in Hebrew, or Aramaic, or whatever they were speaking back then, so it's the same difference.
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- alex 10-11-2001 5:04 pm
I can just picture the security haulling ass out of there. Bad scene. Jiesh!
- bill 10-11-2001 7:10 pm [add a comment]
Excuse me, but I believe that "jiesh" (sp?) along with "geeze" etc. is a bowdlerized rendering of "Jesus"; a mollified form of taking the name in vain, reference to which might offend our Moslem friends. It's sort of like Norman Mailer having to substitute "fug" for "fuck" in The Naked & the Dead. Not sure about "yeesh" which sounds Yiddish. It might be "Joshua" (or "Yeshua", or some such) but that was actually Jesus' name in Hebrew, or Aramaic, or whatever they were speaking back then, so it's the same difference.
- alex 10-12-2001 1:29 am [add a comment]