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3) Few nebbishes are actually nerds or intellectuals--some Woody Allen characters excepted.
The only famous nebbishes are fictional characters: George Costanza, Isaac Bashevis Singer's Gimple the Fool, George McFly in Back to the Future , and virtually anyone played by Woody Allen or Rick Moranis.
It is no accident that the word nebbish originated in Yiddish, a language without a nation that is spoken by a people repeatedly beaten down by pogroms and thus in a good position to empathize with nebbishes.
By definition, nebbishes are whiners, lacking self-confidence, generally inept, and on the losing end of social transactions--all characteristics that work against their ever achieving fame.
Or, to put it another way, what now separates the nerds from the nebbishes?