I thought that twaut was over 100 and already ready dead, goes to show my thinking.

Buttons drew on all his past experience for monologues, songs, dances and sketches featuring such characters as a punch-drunk fighter, a scrappy street kid, a Sad Sack GI and a blundering German.

Second only in popularity to the Evil German.

My mother, who is not jew-wise, nevertheless used to describe Red Buttons as a "sickening puke". She's only a quarter Irish, but apparently that's enough to tell a real leprechaun from a "Yiddish" one.

RIH, kike.

Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt on Feb. 15, 1919, son of an immigrant milliner, in a tough Manhattan neighborhood where, he once said, "you either grew up to be a judge or you went to the electric chair."

He struggled through schools in Manhattan and the Bronx — "Mom and Pop went to school as often as I did; they should have graduated with me." He started performing at the age of 12, winning an amateur contest singing "Sweet Jenny Brown" in a sailor's suit.

At 16 he was working as a singer and bellhop in a gin mill on New York's City Island. Since all bellhops were called Buttons and Chwatt had red hair, he got his new name.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20060713/ap_en_ot/obit_buttons

Second only in popularity to the Evil German.

My mother, who is not jew-wise, nevertheless used to describe Red Buttons as a "sickening puke". She's only a quarter Irish, but apparently that's enough to tell a real leprechaun from a "Yiddish" one.

RIH, kike.

RingIH is what they do while they're alive. Itz their world, you know.