Tripartisonship; Market Making & Stepping in Front

[A. Maberry]

On Fri, 25 May 2001 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> THAT'S A SPICY MEATBALL--My friend says that this catchphrase comes from a
  character on the old Abbott & Costello show.

That might be. I also remember a sort of off-the-wall commercial for some
canned spaghetti and meatballs the plot of which was that the  "star" is
an actor playing an Italian guy  making a commerical for spaghetti
and trying, unsuccessfully to say the phrase "At'sa spicy meatball". When
he finally does say it correctly, some other prop like the stove in the
background falls apart. Late 1960s early 1970s?

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu