Grasso Resigns As Nyse Chairman

taodr · Sep 17, 2003

What are you saying.... he verklempt her?

inandlong · Sep 17, 2003

Quote from AnonymousTrader:

What the hell does "verklempt" mean?

Ya never watched Saturday Night Live? with Mike Myers(sp)!

wercurna · Sep 17, 2003

What language is that "verklempt" ?

LMAO · Sep 17, 2003

Quote from wercurna:

What language is that "verklempt" ?

i don't know if this is what the original poster meant, but this is in the dictionary:

verkrampte

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=561511325

Ebo · Sep 17, 2003

Not even close.

Verklempt
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Popularized by GregS's fellow countryman, Mike Meyers on SNL, it is presumed to be Yiddish. But also may come from an older German word. There is a current German verb "klemmen" which means "to wedge." It can also be used in other combinations/compounds to mean "tension." Thus Verkempt (ferklempt, fahrklemt and etc) could mean a "tightness of the heart" as in emotional.

AnonymousTrader · Sep 17, 2003

Quote from inandlong:

Ya never watched Saturday Night Live? with Mike Myers(sp)!

I ever did watch it - but not insofar as to remember that he used the word verklempt in any meaningful context.

- Otherwise - thanks for the explanation everyone. I will now use it in my daily speach - if I don't choke on my tounge.

BSAM · Sep 17, 2003

Quote from vhehn:

GRASSO RESIGNS AS NYSE CHAIRMAN

is this the beginning of the end of the specialist system?

(At the risk of getting the old tired debate going).......One can only hope!

Atheist · Sep 17, 2003

I thought the purpose of his resignation is to protect the monopoly of the specialist system from further inquiries by the regulators.

JayS · Sep 17, 2003

http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/uvwxyz.htm#verklempt

verklempt
[Yiddish, also ferklempt, etc.] overcome with emotion

VitoAndolini · Sep 17, 2003

I know Maria Bartiromo from the old neighborhood in Brooklyn.She went to high school(Fontbonne Hall Academy(all girls) with my cousins.Don't know if this true but apparently Grasso helped Maria land her job at CNBC.Maria went from a CNN intern to the Money Honey in a very short time.