Oh yes, 'strain at stool' was surely Churchill's comment on seeing Graham Sutherland's 1954 portrait of him - he hated it: 'It makes me look as if I were straining at stool'. It was eventually burned, with no complaints, by his private secretary.
The "Oy, am I thirsty" joke appears in a documentary about why Jews are funny. My grandmother, a pogrom survivor who embodied the word "kvetch" taught me how to pronounce it. I graduated to "kvell." She did a lot of that too.
I would love to have heard Buddy Hackett perform the "Oy, am I thirsty" joke.
"Madeupical". It took me a while. Nice.
Made up by lexicographer Erin McKean: https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=anon~a746e561&id=GALE|A430674796&v=2.1&it=r&sid=sitemap&asid=4a1a5d6c
Oh yes, 'strain at stool' was surely Churchill's comment on seeing Graham Sutherland's 1954 portrait of him - he hated it: 'It makes me look as if I were straining at stool'. It was eventually burned, with no complaints, by his private secretary.
My father used to tell me that 'vos I toisty' joke in 1950s.
The "Oy, am I thirsty" joke appears in a documentary about why Jews are funny. My grandmother, a pogrom survivor who embodied the word "kvetch" taught me how to pronounce it. I graduated to "kvell." She did a lot of that too.
Great stuff. But I can't believe you relegated "to strain at stool" to a footnote!
Nancy does sweary, not dirty.