You don't have to be Jewish: In the Methodist milieu of some of my ancestors, the saying was, "Yes, and if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle". Likewise the Russians respond to iffy statements with a rhyme that translates to "If it weren't for if & but, I'd have been a general a long time ago".

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The alternating choruses of yay & boo also occur in "Parties Make the World Go Round", e.g.

There will be no swimming in the pool / We are using it to store the beer

Positively no fornication on the dance floor / And no dancing on the fornication floor

It is forbidden to touch the barmaids' delicate dresses / They are made of cellophane

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

||: Of all the adornments of power, the most impressive is restraint. :||