Love Boat; Gorgy; Mary Jane; 50 Chowders

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LOVE BOAT

     The Monday, 7 August 2000 NEW YORK POST has a page three story about The
Canaveral Star (Cape Canaveral, Florida), described by some as "the world's
first floating bordello."  The owner insists that "there is no sex"--just lap
dances at sea.  However, people seem to leave the VIP room happy.
     It's been called the "Love Boat."  Also, the "Bordello Boat" and the
"Stripper Ship."  (Too bad the newspapers can't print a pun on "Titanic.")
     How about "Ship of Fools"?

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GORGY

     Catholic League President William Donohue has called Al Gore's
fundraiser at the L.A. Playboy mansion a "Gorgy."  (NY POST, 7 August 2000,
pg. 21, col. 1.)

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MARY JANE

     Did OED revise its "Mary Jane" entry?
     The earliest "Mary Jane"="marijuana" is from 1928.  It's noted that
"Mary Jane" was the name of slippers (from 1921).  Did the popularity of the
name "Mary Jane" come from elsewhere?
     The CONFECTIONERS JOURNAL, January 1919, pg. 16, has an ad for the
"penny specialties" of Charles N. Miller Co., Beverly and Traverse Streets,
Boston, Mass.  "Dearos" and "Mary Janes" were "Re. U.S. Pat. Off."
     The "Mary Jane" ads were in most every issue.

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50 CHOWDERS: ONE-POT MEALS--CLAM, CORN & BEYOND
by Jasper White
Scribner, NY
256 pages, hardcover, $30
2000

     "Chapter 1: The Folklore and History of Chowder" is on pages 19-26.  The
timeline ends with: "2000 _50 Chowders_, by Jasper White, the first hardcover
book of contemporary chowders, is published."  Obviously, an important moment
in recorded chowder history.
     There's not much new.  "1894" includes a brief mention of Charles
Ranhofer's THE EPICUREAN (the author states, without looking at other 1890s
sources, that this may have been the birth of Manhattan Clam Chowder--in the
recipe if not in the name), "1896" mentions Fannie Farmer's BOSTON COOKING
SCHOOL COOKBOOK, and the next entry is a paragraph for "1900-1950."  And
that's not a great paragraph, either.

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PERSONAL (THERE'S A FJORD IN MY FUTURE)

     From Tuesday, August 8--Sunday, August 27, I'll be in Norway and Sweden.