[78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster

[Jeff Sultanof]

I'm sure all of you know that James Cagney could speak fluent yiddish and
did so in a movie, "Taxi."

Jeff



>  Funny:  More than once, my friends in NYC mentioned that I use "more
> Yiddish words than people born down here".  I
> attribute that to reading /hearing /watching so much Marx Bros, Jolson,
> Cantor, Burns, Brooks, etc etc.  And there are
> Jewish people outside of NYC, I informed them.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 1:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
>
>
> > --- On Fri, 2/18/11, Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Later, Astin's monster father colleague, Fred Gwyn was in
> >> Car 54, where are you?
> >>
> >> Ooh-ooh-ooh!
> >
> > There's a holdup in The Bronx
> > Brooklyn's broken out in fights
> > There's a traffic jam in Harlem
> > That's backed up to Jackson Heights...
> >
> > I had no idea, as a kid, what and where any of those
> > places were, but "back in the day" everyone in the US
> > was expected to know what East Coast place names
> > referred to.  You just took it as a cultural tide
> > that washed over you and assumed that there was some
> > significance to those words;
>
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