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>nicole perrin wrote:
>> I was just babysitting, and the kid was watching an old cartoon called
>> David the Gnome, it used to be on Nickelodeon about 10 years ago. At
>> the end, I noticed that David says goodbye in his "gnome language." The
>> word is <slitzweitz>, pronounced /Slitsvaits/
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>Sounds German-ish to me, especially with that spelling.
Well I can tell you that Schlitz, "The beer that made [my
hometown] Milwaukee famous" was the inspiration for
a whole genre of word-play jokes that circulated locally.
Jerry