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Shoo-fly rabbi?

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You don't like that epithet.

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Just want to know its meaning and origin. That's all.

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A song from my childhood.

“Shoo fly, don't bother me…”

There was another song from the 50s, I think, called “Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pandowdy.”

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Ah. Got it.

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You don't like that epithet.

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