Saturday, February 23, 2013

Thought for the Day

It's a lazy Saturday, and I found the quote I've been looking for all week, from (Saint) Lenny Bruce, Long Island native:
If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch. Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.
I'm from New York(ish), and made rye bread a few weekends ago.  So much for that Catholic education....

And if you are looking for a great 70s film you haven't seen, let me recommend "Harry and Tonto".  That eccentric old lady putting the moves on Art Carney in the final scene?  That's Sally Marr, Lenny Bruce's mom.

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