It is said that a shlemiel is the guy who buys a suit with two pairs of pants and burns a hole in the coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Sorry, the only Yiddish I know is “putz” and “shlemiel”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew is the last common ancestor of all languages - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Now what about hapless Portnoy, the amusing shlemiel on the analyst's couch?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Roth and the Jews: An Exchange] Reference

That's about all the Yiddish this goyim can remember right now, better quit before I come across looking like too much a shlemiel.    From Wordnik.com.  [middle of the night fears] Reference

But Larry Gopnik, the serious hero of "A Serious Man," is no shlemiel.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Yiddish constructs elaborate linguistic relationships, like shlemiel, an inept bungler, and shmazel, the one who is bungled upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jules Crittenden] Reference

The counterculture, with its relentless emphasis on being right-on and tuned in, was more than the average American shlemiel could sustain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | The New York Observer] Reference

That happens when people start passing around documents as attachments, and making changes to the documents, and nobody keeps track of the changes, and pretty soon there are multiple versions of the document flying around, which some poor shlemiel has to collate together.    From Wordnik.com.  [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference

I suppose you can be both a putz and a shlemiel, but you don’t have to be; a shlemiel who knows his limitations is not a putz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew is the last common ancestor of all languages - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"sophomore shlemiel" whose wardrobe malfunction at a basketball game puts his generous endowment on display for all the world to see.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Putz and shlemiel are not synonyms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew is the last common ancestor of all languages - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A shlemiel is more of a clumsy simpleton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew is the last common ancestor of all languages - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"I wonder what other customs that shlemiel and his shikseh wife plan on defiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aristocrats] Reference

Its a blend of "schmendrik" and "shlemiel" .... ....... is he peeved with me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tory Punks ?.....] Reference

I was prepared, this once, for Shani’s sake, to take him through every dish on the menu, but I had to stop him when his curiosity grew more philosophical and he tried to get me on the difference between shmendrik and shmerrel and shmuck and shmegege and shmulky and shlemiel and shlimazel and shvontz and the hundreds of others—the rich roll-call of dishonor in which a people who prize intelligence above all things register the minutest distinctions between ignorance, simplicity, folly, buffoonery, ineptitude, sadness, and sheer bad luck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalooki Nights] Reference