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Yiddish is especially versatile in describing those poor souls who inhabit the world of the ineffectual, and each is assigned a distinct place in the gallery of pathetic types: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch , and nudnik . Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a `pest'; a phudnik is a `nudnik with a Ph.D.' The rich nuances that suffuse this roll call are seen in the timeless distinction between a schlemiel `clumsy jerk' and a schlimazel `habitual loser': the schlemiel inevitably trips and spills his hot soup—all over the schlimazel.
Murphy is attaching blame to someone else . Murphy is more or less calling the technician said to be responsible (we never get the technician's version) a schmuck . In Bear's version, Murphy is not stating any broad philosophical principle of any kind.
Oh--A mook is kind of like a gavone, which is kind of like an Italian schmuck.
That would have been all, folks, were Louis not a complete schmuck who capriciously drains the kingdom's coffers with foreign wars, starves a lot of smudgy faced extras (who hurl rotten fruit at his guards), and falls on whatever beauteous wench strikes his royal fancy.
The spell is broken only when you leave the store, realize that you've just bought $200 worth of merchandise, and understand you're just another schmuck consumer.