"Don't get mad! Get Glad!"

[victor steinbok]

Don't forget "Why can't you be like X" or "I wish I had X for
son/daughter". I am sure more can be found in How to Be a Jewish
Mother, complete with the glossary for a variety of "terms" such as
"wash down", as in "have some bread to wash down that soup". And, no,
I am not kidding but Dan Greenberg was). Besides, it's a heavily
Anglicized version--I'd like to see it in the original Yiddish.
;-)
There is 1992 "30th Anniversary Edition", but it was originally
published in 1964. [http://amzn.to/btYcBr]

There is also a how-to defense book: How to Survive a Jewish Mother.
[http://amzn.to/bBYtNn] It's a bit more recent vintage.

VS-)

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
...

>>>On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone else understand this slogan as a trivial rewording of the
>>>>old parentism,
>>>>
>>>>"If you're getting mad, you'd better get glad!"
>>>>
>>>>like unto
>>>>
>>>>"Don't make me come ...!"
>>>>
>>>>"Your head is hard as as a rock!"
>>>>
>>>>"Can't we have anything nice around here?!"
>>>>
>>>>etc.
>>>>
...

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