Linguistics is the study of... (MILLIONAIRE question!)

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LINGUISTICS IS THE STUDY OF...

A.  Emotions
B.  Heredity
C.  Language
D.  Philosophy

   Jack Black was asked this question by Regis Philbin on WHO WANTS TO BE A
MILLIONAIRE just now.  I don't know why I stopped channel flipping for that
moment; Fred Shapiro wasn't on, so why watch it?
   "C. Language!"  Jack Black emotionally responded.
   "You're right!"
   Regis was smiling.  Jack was smiling.
   I don't suppose it's true that they're dumbing down the questions...

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SLOPPY JOE (continued)

SOUVENIR BOOK OF FAVORITE RECIPES
FROM EL PASO, TEXAS
Compiled by the Auxiliary of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church
of El Paso, Texas
(No date; 195- is UTEP's guess)

Pg. 42:
SLOPPY JOE   Mrs. James Williams
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 c. chopped celery
2 medium onions, minced
   Mix above together and soften with a little olive oil or bacon drippings.
Into this mixture put:
1/2 pkg. cooked macaroni
little green pepper, minced
1 can tomatoes
1/2 c. grated cheese
garlic, optional
   Put this mixture into a baking dish and let it stand overnight in
refrigerator, then sprinkle liberally with grated cheese.  Bake 1 hour in
moderate oven.

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MAKE MINE MENUDO:
CHICANO COOK BOOK
by Ella T. and Jose A. Lopez
Sunburst Enterprises, La Puente, Calif.
1976

   On the cover are listed:

Albondigas; Atole; Barbacoa; Bunuelos; Burritos; Carnitas; Chalpuas;
Chilaquiles; Chile con Carne; Chorizo; Guacamole; Huevos Rancheros; Menudo;
Migas; Quesadillas; Tacos; Tamales
   From the Glossary on Pg. 77:

MIGAS  A Chicano dish made with crisp fried tortilla bits, scrambled with
eggs.

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SURE ENOUGH, HOW COME?
by F. W. van Emden
The Naylor Company, San Antonio
1933;
Revised and Reprinted July 1938
Fifth Printing, March 1945

   An interesting little book.  J. Frank Dobie wrote an introduction.
SECTION V: THAT IMPORTANT ITEM FOOD is on pages 20-25.
   From Pg. 23:

WHERE a peanut is a GOOBER
   And where RIGHT SMART MEAL is use,
Where they eat BATTERCAKES, not "hot cakes,"
   Is where South and West have fused:
   TEXAS

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MISC.

   It was 85 degrees in El Paso today...I fly home Tuesday.  That's an
all-day deal.
   UTEP had a humor magazine called EL BURRO.  I read some of it;  there were
pinup pictures of women and stuff from other humor magazines.  I gave up.
Maybe "Montezuma's revenge" and other regional stuff is there, but I doubt
it.  The humor magazine could have been from a college in the Northeast.
   No pre-1926 "taco" to report.  I checked the ads in yearbooks, the ads the
student newspaper, and the ads in local El Paso newspapers of the 1920s.
There's very little Mexican cuisine mentioned; when Mexican cuisine was
mentioned, "Hot tamales" was there.