Another Snippet from a Conversation

[gnomi]

Yet another glimpse into the way my parents and I talk to each other:

Me: I have mush in my brain.

Abba: (singing) Mush in my brain/mush from Havana

Me: Havana? You know, we have a song about a happy, Jewish girl who goes down to Cuba.

Abba: Oh?

Me: Yeah... it's very frequently played at weddings.

Abba: (thinks a moment) Havana Gila?

Comments

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

OGM LOL!

*falls off chair*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::helps you back up::

::dusts you off::

This is why my parents and I get along well... :-)

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

That would be "OMG", not "OGM". *face/palm*

Heh. And I see where you get it from now, too. ;-)

TTO: Running Down To Cuba

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

Oh I got a girl named Havana Gila
way, me boys, for Cuba!
She only runs with the boys who've had milah!
and we're running down to Cuba!

Chorus:
On a Kosher Cruise we are bound away
Way me boys for Cuba!
Rise for shachris at the breaking of the day
As we're running down to Cuba!

I love to dance with my Havana Gila
Way me boys for Cuba
A shame that she's shomeret n'giah!
and we're running down to Cuba!

Chorus

(NB: the meter only works if you use American Ashkenazic pronunciation for the transliterated words. And yeah, V2 is a false rhyme, but I couldn't resist.)

Re: TTO: Running Down To Cuba

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

Change Line 2 V1 to:
"She only runs with the bachurim with milah"

Re: TTO: Running Down To Cuba

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heee! This is brilliant.

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO!! Your folks are a trip.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah... it explains a lot about why I went into Linguistics, though. I grew up knowing that words were things to play with.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Wow. That one exchange explains so very much.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heh. True, enough.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

It's been so ridiculously hard to get Jewish Havana mush ever since Castro came to power, you know?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

True, true. We've had to make do with the lower-quality mush ever since. Though I hear there's a strong black market in Jewish Havana mush.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

"Let's move"?