Re: [Leica] That's Kvetch With a "K"

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>]

Peter

Do you write synopses for IMDb? (or is it IMdB?)

Jerry

Peter Klein wrote:

> One of the old "Murder, She Wrote" episodes involved Ricardo Montalbon as a
> Yugoslavian concert pianist who killed his wife.  His "out" was that he
> couldn't have fired the gun.  He had come home drunk, spilled a bottle of
> Slivovitz in the wastebasket, and then badly burned his hands when he
> accidently set it alight after throwing his lit cigar into the same
> wastebasket.
>
> Jessica Fletcher's urbane British friend Dennis Stanton, ex-jewel thief
> turned insurance investigator, fingered Ricardo.  Turns out that Ricardo's
> character had been a partisan in Yugoslavia in WWII.  He had been tortured,
> and developed the ability to withstand extreme pain.  He was also
> developing a neurological disorder that would soon end his concert
> career.  Knowing this, he staged the "accident" with the Slivovitz, then
> shot his wife, figuring that the police would not suspect that a man with
> severely burned hands could fire a gun.  As a concert pianist, his hands
> were insured for millions.  He would collect a big insurance settlement,
> and then live happily ever after with his luscious young female student.
>
> Moral:  Stay away from Slivovitz. The stuff was the rocket fuel in a secret
> Eastern European space program.
>
> --Peter Klein
> Seattle, WA
>
> > > Buzz Hausner wrote:
> > > > Or, as my grandfather would have said, slivovitz!
> > > >
> > > >     Buzz
> >Seth said:
> > > > Confusing two different words with two different derivations and
> > > > meanings.
> > > > quetsch, as in a wondrous French plum-based clear brandy; and
>
> Gary Markland said:
> >Don't think it's Yiddish. Try Serbo-Croation? When in what was Yugoslavia, it
> >was the plum-based clear brandy. Often homemade.
>
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