Iceberg categories; Alaskan speak; Burger Jim

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   Greetings from Anchorage.  I take a 5 p.m. flight home on Wednesday, July 3rd.  I'll be back the morning of July 4th.  Then, on July 6th, I fly to southern Germany, where my plane will collide with another plane in mid-air.  (Where is this Landau guy when you need him?)

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ICEBERG CATEGORIES

   The State Ferry guy next to "PFD Otter" (How did otters survive all these years without PFDs?) showed me a book that defines icebergs:

<3 feet     brash ice
3-7 feet    growler ice
7-15 feet   bergy bits
>15 feet    iceberg
   If close enough that you can hear fizzing, it's called "bergy seltzer" or "ice seltzer."

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ALASKAN SPEAK

   FROMMER'S ALASKA 2002 has "An Alaska Glossary" on Page 450:

breakup; bunny boots; cheechako; dry or damp (alcohol towns--ed.); Lower 48; Native; Native Corporation; (Pg. 451--ed.) oosik--The huge male penile bone of a walrus (Thanks for this useless info, Frommer's--ed.); Outside; PFD--Permanent Fund Dividend; pioneer; salmon; SOutheast; tsunami; village

   WHERE (ALASKA & THE YUKON) 2002/2003 has "SAY IT IN ALASKAN" on Page 21:

Outside; Snowmachine; Rig; Cheechako; Sourdough; Kicker--...it's the outboard motor on your boat; "The lights are out"--...The aurora borealis; Midnight sun; Termination dust; The Bush

(Sorry if both are pretty weak--ed.)

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BURGER JIM ("PRIDE OF ALASKA")

   About a block away from here in Anchorage is Burger Jim ("Pride of Alaska").  If you need more exact directions, well--it's next door to The New York Deli.
   Burger Jim adds avocado to the BLT for a BLTA (not BALT?).
   Today's special at the "Pride of Alaska" is "London Burger."  A "London Burger" is a burger with Canadian bacon, American and Swiss cheese.

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MISC.

   ALL THAT JAZZ:  My "jazz" posts in the old ADS-L archive seem to be largely destroyed.  Bert Kelly stated in his book (Vantage Press self-published, but cited by Peter Tamony) that he got the word "jazz" from San Francisco, but that "jazz" probably dates from Alaskan gold rush towns.  Well, if the slang existed at all, it would have been the name of a saloon, or a mine, or even a town.  "Jazz" is not there in Alaskan names, and it's not there in Alaskan literature, and now I didn't see it in Alaskan newspapers.
   PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND bites:  Near the College Fiord are the Yale and Harvard Glaciers.  Barry Glacier is close to that, but the place is clearly lacking a Popik Point, Popik Passage, and Port Popik.