Chuck
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And the Moravians saw those and they were like, hold my molasses cookie because we're going to kick this up a notch.
And they kicked it up such a notch that the Germans created a term basically for that notch of these crutches, these Moravian crutches called a putz.
It means to put out or decorate.
And putzing was the act of doing this.
Nothing to do with the Yiddish term you're a putz or putzing about.
No, because a putz is sort of a fool and putzing about is kind of doing foolish things.
Is that not true?
That's the original.
That's the OG meaning.
Yes, you are correct.
Yeah, they're like, where am I going to put the manger repair guy?
They had no spot, so they created, they just expanded the natural scene around the, I guess, the barn.
They created fields, of course.
All of a sudden you had lakes, you had cliffs, you had rivers, you had buildings, you had more buildings.
And before you know it, a putz, or a putz rather, it's probably putz, it could take up an entire room.
Like they would clear out a room and dedicate it to their putz.
That's right.
And now I digress very briefly to tell you of a little natural diorama I made at my camp on a stump, on a big old tree stump that I brought up there from a neighbor's front yard.
You brought your own stump?
I brought my own stump, which is a whole story in itself, which I won't get into.