Tuesday, December 8, 2009

THE BROTHER'S IN TOWN...LOONEY TOON QUOTES ABOUND....

The brudder is in town. David. "Doov". When we were young, our father told us our Yiddish names. David's name was three syllables, so it got shortened to "Doov". Incidentally, mine doesn't change-you just have to emphasize "bor" and generate more phlegm on the "ach" sound at the end. Never mind.

Anyway, we picked him up last night and he'll be spending some time here while he goes to various job interviews and job fairs. I hope Peter can keep up. Doov is only 11 months younger than me. We grew up in a Catholic neighborhood. Back then we were called the politically incorrect term of "Irish twins". That was interesting. The only Jewish family for miles around. The kids in the 'hood regularly accused David and I of killing Christ. The first time it happened, I ran into the kitchen and asked my mother if it was true. She was cooking and she didn't even turn around to look at me. Her reply? "Tell them they want the Italian family down the street". Perfection.

Anyway, being that close in age (in fact, part of this month we'll be the SAME age), we tended to do everything together, as you can imagine. In fact, last night, at 2:00 in the morning, we were eating soup and during the course of conversation I quoted a line from a Bugs Bunny cartoon that's probably over 50 years old. I said, without any context whatsoever, "You meet so many interesting people" in a nasal tone and east coast accent. David started laughing because he immediately got it, but I'm relatively certain Peter was lost as to meaning. It's going to be an interesting 8 days here at the casa...."I say, I say, I say...."*

*Foghorn Leghorn (for the uninitiated)

3 comments:

Jette said...

Just make sure you don't get into any trouble. I remember a few stories myself. lol


Have a blast!! My love to everyone. xoxoxo

Anonymous said...

before i say what i was going to say, i've just GOT to say, WTF? with the chinese? ????????

anyway, what i was going to say (but i think the chinese stole my thunder) is, "poor peter."

WTF with the chinese??????

The Katzbox said...

@ Jette: Thx honey. Love you.

@ Nancy: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....I have no idea what that is. I'll have to get Eric to look at it. He reads it a little. But it did NOT steal your thunder one bit....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA