things overheard, but not by me

This whole LP thing reminds of a story Alan once told me...he was in a record store (yes, a record store) and one teenager said to the other "Who are the Beatles? I've never heard of them," and the other replied, "Oh, they were Paul McCartney's first backup band. Before Wings."

Alan overhears the best things. One time, when he was at Yentl, he heard this grizzled old Jewish man turn around to his wife and say "If dat's a boy, den I'm a peeze bekkin!" It doesn't translate into print that well, I fear. If you see Alan walking down the street someday, ask him to tell you the story.