Posted on 05/07/2017 4:18:47 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Continuing on with this, perhaps the “razor-close crew cut his dark hair” (i.e. Dobie Gillis) was actually short for Gillette razors and Dobie adopted a short version of it as his stage name.
I think my post is a cut above the rest, said “Sweeney Todd”.
Let’s go to the father to arbite the matter. Papa Gillis, on the one hand, had red hair and didn’t look very Jewish. On the other hand, he talked to himself a lot, saying “I gotta kill that boy. I just gotta.” On the other hand, he operated the town’s only grocery store, a struggling enterprise. Jewish or Irish? Do Jews or Irish or both contemplate murdering their teenagers? Are both bad with money, but enterprising enough to keep trying? Plenty of red-headed Jews, though.
I recall Sam Brown from the "Moratorium" protests of 1969, which fizzled after Richard Nixon gave his "Silent Majority" speech on TV and got an overwhelmingly positive response.
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