grammatically speaking...

[Tom Kysilko]

I first heard the "Poof! You're a malted" gag in a Lenny Bruce routine --
with accent.
--Tom Kysilko

At 02:16 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>#Or the slightly more ethnic version I remember, in which "malted"
>#substitutes for "milkshake" and the genie-character has a Yiddish
>#accent (and doesn't say "OK").
>
>I remember it as
>         Make me a malted!
>         Poof! You're a malted.
>No accent, not ethnic, but maybe NYC?
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel