Quote of the Day, 8/6/06

I was searching online for a good quote about "distinction," thinking specifically of Fluorescent Magenta, Girl of Distinction, and what I might be able to do with the right context around that word. It's funny though, how you can happen upon the most unrelated, but still highly entertaining wrong finds in internet searches. What do we call these finds? Netcidents perhaps?

Anyhow, here's the quote I found, and it made me so nostalgic for Laverne and Shirley, and specifically their theme song, I just had to include the lyrics as well (forgive the misspellings, I could not find a definitive source).

The American distinction between the schlemiel and the schlimazl ... says the former spills the soup, the latter is the one into whose lap it falls.... Whereas comedy involving the schlimazl tends to be situational, the schlemiel’s comedy is essential, deriving from his very nature in its confrontation with reality.
Ruth R. Wisse, The Schlemiel as Modern Hero, University of Chicago Press (1971)

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Schlemiel, schlimazl, hasenfeffer incorporated.
We're gonna do it!

Give us any chance, we'll take it.
Give us any rule, we'll break it.
We're gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin' it our way.

Nothin's gonna turn us back now.
Straight ahead and on the track now.
We're gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin' it our way.

There is nothing we won't try.
Never heard the word impossible.
This time there's no stopping us.
We're gonna do it.

On your mark, get set, and go now.
Got a dream and we just know now.
We're gonna make our dream come true.

And we'll do it our way, yes our way.
Make all our dreams come true.
And do it our way, yes our way.
Make all our dreams come true.
For me and you.
"Making our Dreams Come True" written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox