Curb Your Enthusiasm versions of themselves fictionalized to varying degrees. The plots and subplots of the episodes are established in an outline written by David, and the dialogue is largely improvised by the actors (a technique known as retroscripting). As with "Seinfeld", which David co-created, the subject matter in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" often involves the minutiae of American daily social life, and plots often revolve around Larry David's many faux pas and his problems with certain social conventions and expectations, as well as his annoyance with other people's behavior. The character has a hard time letting such annoyances go unexpressed, which often leads
Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg "Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg" is an American bawdy song. The formula is a descending scale: "Rich girl [does something,] Poor girl [does something else], my girl don't [do whatever the other two do, usually with comic effect.]. The twentieth century versions are possibly the result of merging a minstrel song with "Coming Round the Mountain". In "Negro Singers' Own Book" (c 1846) there is a song about animals: By 1915 this had become a comment on the fashion tastes of white women: Notably lacking in those songs, is a chorus. Another song,