FYI: "Hot dog" wrong again (6-29-2005)

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:55 PM -0400 6/29/05, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>I did this TEN YEARS ago. I have never been credited in a July 4th
>newspaper article. So, now that Gerald Cohen and lectured on it and
>published a book, why should this year be any different?
>...
>...
>So here we've assembled fun facts and tidbits, a guide to everything hot dogs.
>* July is National Hot Dog Month. According to the National Hot Dog
>and Sausage Council, Americans will consume 7 billion hot dogs
>between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
>* The hot dog got its name in 1901 when sports cartoonist Ted Dorgan
>sketched vendors selling "dachshund sausages" at a baseball game in
>New York. He couldn't spell dachshund, so he called them "hot dogs."

You'd think they'd at least have the courtesy to admit they've
assembled some fun "facts"

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