Date:  Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:11:01 -0500
From:  Beverly Flanigan <FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: All-America teams now "I vas dere, Charley"

  Ah, yes, the question form "Vas you dere, Charley?" rings an even
  louder bell in my memory, I suppose because the lack of S-V agr struck
  my prescriptivist-teenager ears. Dave Bergdahl adds that it was
  supposedly Yinglish (Yiddish English), but would Baron von Munchausen
  have spoken Yinglish? The radio program could make him whatever it
  wanted to, of course.