From: redrocklobster@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 2:40:58 PM UTC-5, Barry Margolin wrote:   
      
   > I thought it was clearly a play on the age-old stereotype that    
   > schwartzes have big schwanzes.    
   >    
   > BTW, even though I'm Jewish and heard occasional Yiddish from my parents    
   > and grandparents, I didn't actually know what "schwartz" meant (other    
   > than it being a common Jewish surname) until I heard Gabe Kaplan's    
   > standup routine. The joke that sticks with me all these decades later is:    
   >    
   > When I was growing up I thought "schwartz" meant "bomb", because    
   > everyone said that one of them could destroy a neighborhood.   
      
   Thanks… Our bubbies and zadies (and Mels) are some schanda, eh? Glad to   
   hear someone else made the same connection (schwartz>schwanz). But again it's   
   interesting that no one seems to be saying that quiet part out loud (until   
   now, and not in this    
   thread). It's not just because its racist, but because it's just that obscure   
   and awkward even in Yiddish. Still like to be a fly on the wall at the scene   
   where Mel explains the joke to the cast.   
      
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