Mike Ellis's SLANGUAGE

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SLANGUAGE

   The international USA TODAY, 24 August 2000, pg. 11B, col. 6, gave a free ad for Mike Ellis's new book, SLANGUAGE: A COOL, FRESH, PHAT AND SHAGADELIC GUIDE TO ALL KINDS OF SLANG (Hyperion, $14).  It's compiled from his www.slanguage.com stuff that you can get for free (I imagine--I haven't seen the book out yet).
   It's stuff like Mad Monk Jim Crotty--lots of words and phrases, but no sources whatsoever.  You have no idea how many people use the stuff, how old the stuff is, etc.  It's probably useful as a fun reference, but just a starter for serious research.

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YUPPIE TEDDY BEAR

   XENOPHOBE'S GUIDE TO THE SWEDES, pg. 13:

   The ultimate status symbol is to reserve yet another line for the mobile telephone or "yuppie teddy bear," so nicknamed because of the way the owner clutches it close to his cheek.

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TELEPHONE BOOK

   From SOS GUIDE: SWEDISH OBSTACLES SIMPLIFIED (1999 by Kursverksamhetens forlag) by Christine Hungar-MacLeod and Angie Sundqvist, pg. 19:

WHITE PAGES--private numbers
PINK PAGES--businesses, organizations, governmental departments
GREEN PAGES--communal organizations
BLUE PAGES--medical and dental services
RED PAGES--city and street maps

     Beer is on pg. 11:

Class 1  Lattol  Weak beer  2.25% volume (max.)
Class 2  Folkol  "Peoples beer"  3.4% volume (max.)
Class 3  Mellanol and starkol  Medium and strong beer  From 3.5% volume

     I don't know what OED will have for "mellanol," or "middle-class beer."