re: pistol, pistola, etc.

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   As a singer/actor I defer to that great lover of Mozart...Walter Matthau 
who spoke the immortal lines: "You're a pistol, Felix, a real pistol." to 
Jack Lemmon in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. It's an old vaudeville phrase as 
far as I know. Meaning that you are hot and aimed accurately.
    Trudi

>From: "Seth Rogovoy" <rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Annette Ezekiel of Golem (was RE: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1949)
>Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:01:37 -0400
>
> > At 12:09 AM 7/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > >"A pistol"?--means what (he asks, obviously obtusely)?
> >
> >
> > Means variously, "a real firecracker," "a red hot tamale," "a real
> > rooty-tooty," "the bee's knees," and other similarly dated phrases I
> > learned from my mother that I use to amuse my 13 year old son.
> > "Pistol" I
> > thought still had some modern currency. Come on, Bob!   She was
> > energetic,
> > brassy, good and fun to hear and watch....
>
>Indeed, a couple of years ago Annette brought the house down at KlezKamp
>with an outrageous punkified version of "Mekhuteneste Mayne."
>
>Well, at least she brought OUR house down -- maybe not everyone's.
>
>It was memorable -- I still remember it.
>
>Seth Rogovoy
>author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and
>Soul"
>?The music of my childhood memories came flooding back through the decades
>as I read. Maybe, as Seth Rogovoy suggests, it?s time for our music to
>awaken once more to an entirely new generation. Incredibly detailed and
>comprehensive, this book is a lot more than Essential!? -- folk music 
>legend
>Arlo Guthrie
>
>

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