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Once again, yours truly takes poetic license

Once again, yours truly takes poetic license. Whenever the missus irks me or complains... I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin whereby the Army National Guard gets called World War III declared Bubbe rolled over like Beethoven in his grave where re: posthumous renown one hundred & ninety eight years ago March 26, 1827, never stopped decomposing which countless noteworthy creations rank as the mark of a prodigy with chutzpah to return from the grave as an incorporeal essence with trademark shock of hair unwittingly impacted young hearts of females that went into aflutter unbeknownst to said lasses who would qualify as "groupies" in the parlance of contemporary fans, but little known fact that unassuming key gifted musician counts teachers, including his father, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Joseph Haydn, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Antonio Salieri, & Johann Schenk bridged gap tween Classical and Romantic eras centuries after the onset of Yiddish, whereby scholars dated origin of the language to the 9th century, when Ashkenazim emerged as a unique cultural entity in central Europe, thus speculation abounds that lyrical spine tingling pièce de résistance Ode to Joy - a melody based on poem by Friedrich Schiller celebrates the unity of humankind, which song considered a European anthem and a symbol of brotherhood, freedom, & equality impossible mission undertaken by semitic people generally & Jewish folks particularly even then countless centuries before relatively contemporary nations resembled present day geography formerly the cradle of Yiddish, which owned the equivalent of top ten hits on billboard chart for beginning of gobsmacked world predating REM by quite a large number of centuries construing seeds of life & white lily inchoate harbingers of Borscht Belt a region in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was a popular summer destination for Jewish Americans from the 1920s to the 1960s: The area was also known as the "Jewish Alps," showcasing debut of many notable comedians such as the following extensive dam charming name dropping who brought down the house analogous to Rolling Stones “Rock the Casbah.” Abbott & Costello, Joey Adams, Woody Allen, Morey Amsterdam, Bea Arthur, Sandy Baron, Jack Benny, Milton Berle Shelley Berman, Joey Bishop, Mel Blanc, Victor Borge, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Burns & Allen Pesach Burstein, Red Buttons, Sid Caesar, Jean Carroll, Jack Carter, Myron Cohen, Billy Crystal, Bill Dana, Rodney Dangerfield, Phyllis Diller, and the name dropping list continues with Totie Fields, Mickey Freeman, Betty Garrett, Estelle Getty, George Gobel, Shecky Greene, Buddy Hackett, George Jessel, Mickey Katz, Danny Kaye, Alan King, Robert Klein, Harvey Korman, Jack E. Leonard, Mal Z. Lawrence, Sam Levenson, Jerry Lewis, Richard Lewis, The Marx Brothers, Jackie Mason, Lou Menchell, Corbett Monica, Howard Morris, Zero Mostel, Jan Murray, Freddie Prinze Sr., Carl Reiner, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Freddie Roman, Rowan & Martin, Mort Sahl, Soupy Sales, Dick Shawn, Allan Sherman, Phil Silvers, Arnold Stang, David Steinberg, Jerry Stiller, The Three Stooges, Jackie Vernon, Gene Wilder, Jonathan Winters, Ed Wynn, and Henny Youngman to cap off shortlisted personalities who guaranteed a crowded house.

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