"Jewfro"

[Wilson Gray]

Jeez, Larry, all you'd need is the context: "Check out that guy's Isro
/ Jaf(f)ro" and you'd immediately get it. I grant, though, that, if a
person knew them only from some obscure, literary reference, such as
an ADS-L posting, they might be less than obvious. :-)

-Wilson

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>  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
>
>  >
>  >-Wilson
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