Zhlubb

[Daniel Stein]

Grant White asked:
>
>Anyoldhow, is Richard M. Zhlubb, the early seventies manager of the
>Orpheus theatre, powering to work in his Vdub a caricature of one Richard M
>Nixon,
>who at the approxiamate time of GR's final drafting say, was making
>rather Zhlubb like noises? (I pronounce Zlubb in the same way a  flat
>tyre sounds when continuing to drive on it, or something soft hitting a
>something hard.
>Just wondering about that.
>


Isn't "zhlubb" a yiddishism, falling in the same general subject area as
"shlemihl"?

Dan