• Really? That's the headstone they bought for me? Feh!
• No, I don't want to eat your brains! Not without a little chicken schmaltz.
• Who do you have to kill to get a potato knish around here?
• When I was a girl we had to give our coats to the horse because coats are for when you work for a living!
• This was such a beautiful neighborhood, until the Protestants moved in. Them and their bland cooking!
• You could burn a lump of coal in here every once in a while. It's colder than a carp's tuchis in here!
• Television? Why do I want to see something that happened in Los Angeles three weeks ago?
• The president's a what?
• Oy! My skin is so dry! Especially when it's sloughing off in 1-pound slabs!
• Schlomo Rosenberg, now that was a knish salesman!
• In my day, you only had a cat if you had a rat.
• Wipe off that lipstick! Your mouth looks like a hen's tuchis in cherry season!
• You expect me to go in the house? That's disgusting! Where's the outhouse?
• This is music? He's just shouting. That trollop should put some clothes on!
• We didn't have a toaster. We toasted day-old bread over a candle!
• We were so poor, our roaches moved to a better neighborhood!
• Our apartment was so small, only one person could be in it at a time. When we moved out they made it into a casket!
• McKinley's dead? I didn't even know he was sick!
• Yes, we had telephones. I'm not that old. Now my grandmother, she was 2 years younger than G-d.
• A shower every day is a waste of water. Water is for when you work for a living!
• We lived far out in the country. You know, Brooklyn.
• I need a telephone in my purse like a need a hole in the head!
• If I had known my great, great grandson would marry a shikse... Feh! I have no great, great grandson!
Oy!
ReplyDeleteoy!
ReplyDeleteAnd what is wrong with being a shikse? ;-)
ReplyDelete"... a hen's tuchis in cherry season!"
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, my great-great grandmother was reputed to have said something very similar to my grandmother:
"Thelma, your mouth looks like a hen's ass in chokeberry season!"
I think that made it into a poem in my second book...