davemarc clears it up: >Perhaps everyone knows this, but "my man Gershom" is also a play on the >movies "My Man Godfrey" (1936, 1957). A family, taking Godfrey for a >tramp, hires him as a butler. He teaches them all about "how to live." >Based on a novel by Eric Hatch. That's it, that's the one. Thanks, davemarc. Vaska