Re: Foreigner(s)

"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 21, 8:23 pm, R H Draney <dadoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]

Rex Harrison knew of the solecisms in the script, of course, but
chose to turn a blind eye to them....r

And Sammy Davis, Jr., in a conversation about golf, was once asked,
"What's your handicap?"

Was that the occasion when he's said to have replied "I'm a one-eyed
Jewish negro"?

According to the _Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations_, Davis's
autobiography gives it as "I'm a colored, one-eyed Jew--do I need
anything else?"

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