OMG! What a perfect name for a PDA!!! I'd buy one just for the name alone!

Your Espionage Network and Training Academy?

No, actually it's a misnomer, because a Yenta is not a matchmaker, but I guess the real Yiddish word for that is not as catchy.


It's a REAL device, but I guess didn't catch on. You enter all kinds of personal information and also information on what type of person you are looking for as a romantic interest. When you are in the vicinity of someone else who has a Yenta - and either you match their programmed desires or vice-versa, the device alerts you and displays the other person's information for you.

Electronic Matchmaker in Real Time.


I wanted one.


But, 'natch, unless a Whole Buncha people get one, it's useless. Maybe a future iPhone app???



(I think the device was a minor plot point in the movie Shortbus)

I thought that was the purpose of brightkite?

Nah. Brightkite is for meetups.

Yenta is for fixups.






(And if brightkite was even useful for meeting new people, I'd use it. But it's not.)

The actual Yiddish definition of a Yenta is a gossiper or busybody. Blame Fiddler for its mutation into meaning matchmaker. The matchmaker character's was cleverly named Yenta.

Shadchen is the actual Yiddish word for matchmaker.

All you PDA types, gey kaken afn yam!

Oh... wait :blush:

Hehehe. We can't ALL sneak into the restroom ;)

From Public Displays of Affection to phones to discussions about Yiddish.

Awesome.

Oh and the MQ sucks.

I'm guessing no one caught my Get Smart reference.