Re: schmoove?

Ian Menzies (imenzies@axionet.com)
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 20:11:53 -0700


On Thursday, June 26, 1997 9:45 AM, Andrei Marinescu wrote


> i'm not positive as to the definition of 'schmoove', but (just to add to
> the mystery) i have this t-shirt (featuring a mug shot of jack nicholson
> from "chinatown") that has the saying 'shiftee like parkay, schmoove like
> butter', and i've always wondered what *exactly* that's supposed to mean.

Parkay (margarine) is trying to impersonate butter and is therefore
"Shiftee". And everyone knows it's got to be "smoove" to be butter :)

Ian M


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