"Jewfro"

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:36 PM -0400 4/23/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>This was used by John Stewart on lat night's Daily Show.

Yup, caught it.  Jon withheld the pictorial evidence, though.

>  If it wasn't
>for Larry, I would never have heard this one, before. Rather, I
>remember "Jaf(f)ro" and "Isro," from back in the day. I assume that
>the "Jaffro" spelling both punned on "Jaffe" and blocked the
>pronunciation, "Jayfro."

I'd find all of these far too opaque, while "Jewfro" (even before I
had grown out my own) was quite motivated.

LH

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>-Wilson
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