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

[simmonssomer]

You think that's strange? When my mother arrived from Holland where she was 
born and of which she was a citizen
the U.S. Immigration folks filled in her imigration certificate as follows..
NATIONALITY:  Israelite
How 'bout them apples Jack?

Al (son of Israelite) Simmons
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
Believe It Or Not.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DanKj" <MLK402 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster


>  I have a better vision of what/where those places are, now that I've 
> lived in Brooklyn and worked in or toured all 5
> boroughs. And there's a remote historical conection:  Turns out that one 
> pair of great-grandfather & mother was living in
> The Bronx in 1910 - a Scotsman born in Pennsylvania with parents born in 
> Canada, his wife born in Sweden, their 4 kids born
> in New York, and the mother-in-law born in Sweden in 1834.   What's odd is 
> that the Census-taker asked 'what language
> spoken', although it isn't on the form. Odder is that he's got "Sweden / 
> German" written in to Albertine & Bertha's info.
> Would someone born in Sweden speak German?  That's a mystery.
>
>  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>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 1:25 AM
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>
>
>> --- 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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