Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:00:08 -0400

From: Peggy Smith dj611[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU

Subject: Re: yadda, yadda, yadda



The term is actually and originally "yaddata yadata yadata". It

definitely goes back to vaudeville and possibly to the early New York

Yiddish theatre. It's sort of "etc., etc., etc."



Peggy Smith