Re: Much like the secondary characters in the original sketch.

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The Heeberoni...The Heebwoman...Giving the old heeb-ho...


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:19 AM
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The beautiful part, though, from his point of view, is that you don't have to go along with it. Wasn't the Rob Schnieder character annoying the crap out of his coworkers in the original sketch? The more irritated and non-compliant you are, the better it works.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:23 AM
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IOW, by not playing along, YOU ARE PLAYING ALONG.

Wow.


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:25 AM
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Come to think of it, though, heebie pre-pwned me in the title of the post.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:26 AM
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Fight fire with even more dated nostalgic TV Comedy. Next time he does it, pretend to hide behind a plant, look at him conspiratorially and say "Verrry interesting!" in a German accent.

I think the only other alternative is to go all in and respond with a "Two wild and crazy South-central Texas academics" schtick. But I suspect madness this way lies.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:30 AM
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I think the only other alternative is to go all in and respond with a "Two wild and crazy South-central Texas academics" "I'm crushing your head!"


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:36 AM
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(I am embarrassed to admit that I do still occasionally refer to random people, including my children, as, e.g., the Newtinator or the Salinator, as a result of this sketch.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:43 AM
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That's the most annoying sketch ever. One of my drinking buddies, a guy who absolutely loved to joke around. Very firmly stopped me the second time I tried to pull it on him. (I'd just heard it for the first time when it had already been around for awhile, and he was probably just sick of it. But it was about the stiffest I'd ever seen him act).


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:47 AM
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the Salinator

And her arch-enemy the Desalinator!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:52 AM
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You might as well all be talking Swahili ...


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:56 AM
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Saturday Night Live. Which I still watch surprisingly often for some reason. The writers have an odd ability to write sketches that are very much like something that might be funny, but in fact aren't funny in the slightest.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 9:59 AM
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I am in a lounge on the ground floor of the Columbia Philosophy building, and suddenly find myself surrounded by grad students attending a seminar learning how not to embarrass themselves on the Internet when going out on the market. "Online Portfolios for Personal and Professional Development." I should tell them about Unfogged.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:11 AM
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Geoghegan, ghegan, bo-beghan,
Banana fana fo fhegan,
Fee-fi-fo-mhegan
Geoghegan!

Same year as Obama. Amazing.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:14 AM
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Welcome to all bearing the name Geoghegan, Geoghan, Gehegan, Gahagan, Gohagan, Gohegan, Cohagan, Cohegan, Gahegan, Gaghegen, Gaffigan, Gavigan, Gavaghan, Gavagan, Gargan, Geagan, Gegan, Geggan, Gagon, Gagen, Gagin, Geygan, Gaygen, Gheen etc. (with or without Mac, Mc, Mag, M') for you are all probably members of the MacEochagáin line, although some of the variants I included above may be derived from other surnames also - see "variant spellings". This is no insignificant thing, for while many people of Irish descent claim some sort of royal blood, in most cases this is a hollow boast, their "royal" ancestors being little more than petty chieftains. For us it is different, being descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, High King of Ireland and undisputed ruler of the entire island. Indeed, Niall himself was royal not just by conquest but also by descent, his ancestral line going back to the Pharaohs of Egypt. Fáilte (welcome) also to all other mere mortals who happen by this page.

Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:21 AM
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John you fucker, you made my eyes roll out of my head and across the floor and now I interrupted the whole webernet seminar looking for them.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:29 AM
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Hey, you talk to my grandmother, and she'll be very clear about her status as a descendant of Brian Boru, High King over all the kings at Tara. (You have to say the whole thing, every time.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:34 AM
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(Well, at this point, she wouldn't say much, what with the being dead and all. But if you caught her before March 2002, she would have been clear.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:37 AM
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she'll be very clear about her status as a descendant of Brian Boru, High King over all the kings at Tara

An American relative of mine wrote a book about the history of the Gonerills that showed conclusively that our family lineage could be traced to Moses.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:37 AM
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He had kids?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:37 AM
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Presumably, though, that he's using your real name, which would be more akin to "Heebie Geebs," "the Heebie Geebster" and is even more annoying.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:42 AM
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11: The writers have an odd ability to write sketches that are very much like something that might be funny, but in fact aren't funny in the slightest.

The sketches are formally funny.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:45 AM
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20: "He" being the dean, not Brian Boru, Gonerill, or Moses.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:46 AM
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Gershom and Eliezer


Posted by: beamish | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:46 AM
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Huh. I had no idea.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:47 AM
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My son and I have been working on the myth of Nimrod and Gomer for awhile. Materials are scanty.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:48 AM
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He had kids?

Sure, Gershom and Eliezer, the latter of whom had a son who moved to a small cottage on the Dingle Peninsula and opened a kosher deli.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 10:48 AM
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"Heebs...The Heebster...Makin' copies..." revival.

I can't call you Heebster anymore? Damn.

Sure, Gershom and Eliezer, the latter of whom had a son who moved to a small cottage on the Dingle Peninsula and opened a kosher deli.

And a later descendent who wound up in Surrey was knighted as 'Roderick of Onan'.

max
['I know! Heebomatic!']


Posted by: max | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:04 AM
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One of the Gershoms makes soft porn. We could go on and on.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:07 AM
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Gershom, Gersh ...the Shommaster .... Gersheroni ...making some soft porn .... Gershman


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:10 AM
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Gershom-a-lomma-dingdong!


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:14 AM
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Long Dong Gershom


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:20 AM
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Whatever. I'm related to King David, like 90% of all Jews, and the Baal Shem Tov, like 50% of them.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:28 AM
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Gertrudesteinshom


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:31 AM
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32: Or so the Elders of Zion would have you believe.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:31 AM
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The writers have an odd ability to write sketches that are very much like something that might be funny, but in fact aren't funny in the slightest.

Indeed. The newscasts and pre-made stuff (fake commercials, digital shorts, Smigel cartoons) are somewhat reliably entertaining. Parodying an existing form is easier. My favorite commercial.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:56 AM
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35: Volume!


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 11:57 AM
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35: Change you can believe in. In any case, SNL definitely ought to hire this guy to do their Obama sketches. The current guy (unless, uh, they changed in the last many many weeks since I saw one) fucking sucks.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 12:00 PM
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There are those who say that my Emerson line is also descended from Thomas Cornell, who was hanged about 1673 for burning his mother after being convicted on the testimony of a ghost in a dream. The eveidence isn't clearcut but I'm going to claim this one too.

It must be terrible for you lowborn people around here. I just wish that Nathaniel Hawthorne were still alive, so I could trump his stupid ancestors for him.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 12:06 PM
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Thomas Cornell

Thomas Cornell (from p. 148).


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 12:12 PM
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One of the Gershoms makes soft porn.

You misspelled Gershon.


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 12:51 PM
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|| No more masturbating to Philip Jose Farmer. You pervs. |>


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 1:07 PM
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the Baal Shem Tov, like 50% of them

The Baal Shem Tov: the Genghis Khan of the Ashkenazim?


Posted by: Bave Dee | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 1:09 PM
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39: Sounds like he was convicted on the basis of neighbourhood gossip and an uncle's dream.

How many of your illustrious ancestors hanged, anyway?


Posted by: Mary Catherine | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 2:17 PM
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We try to breed before being hanged. Elizabeth overdid that part. It's been nip and tuck at times, but we're still here.

I once thought that my brewer great-great-grandfather had been implicated in the shooting of a prohibitionist, but it turns out that it was probably the other brewer in town. In any case, he was not hanged. He was put out of business by Iowa prohibition the next year, about 1894.

German Lutherans may have been the only wet Protestants in those days.

Great-great grandpa Selzer was the only real money the family every had, but that was my mother's immigrant side anyway. She saw little of the money, but did survive the Depression OK.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 2:33 PM
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John, these are great stories. I love family history stories that are a) colourful (crime and punishment is a good theme); and b) more or less factually based.

The main reason for the Niall of the Nine Hostages nonsense, I think, is the lack of Irish records. In the absence of documentary evidence, people tend to make stuff up (though not deliberately or consciously, of course). And since just about nobody with Irish ancestry can credibly claim to go back further than about 1750 (and many cannot credibly claim to go back further than the 1840s), anyone with Irish origins can claim to be directly descended from the great chieftains of ancient times without fear of (records-based) contradiction.


Posted by: Mary Catherine | Link to this comment | 02-26-09 7:34 PM
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So what Ben's saying is that the Jews are a bunch of incestuous mother fuckers.


Posted by: Bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-27-09 11:59 AM
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I am descended from the love child of Ghengis Kahn and Niall of the Nine Hostages.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 02-27-09 12:28 PM
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