Reporter seeks ads-l help on restaurant lingo

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The Server's Lexicon: Preliminary Inquiries into Current Restaurant Jargon
Michael Adams
American Speech, Vol. 73, No. 1. (Spring, 1998), pp. 57-83.

   A great work!  Michael Adams slays me!
   Contact dinerslang at aol.com.  He's doing a book of diner slang and has collected about 5,000 terms.
   See Jerry Dunn's IDIOM SAVANT: SLANG AS IT IS SLUNG (NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1997).
Pages 53-55:
   RESTAURANT WORKERS
   Waiters and Waitresses
Adam and Eve on a raft
all the way
Blanche
blast
burn one
campers
Clampetts
crumbs
damages
deep-six
deuce
drag
duke
eighty-six
fazed
fluff and fold
gummer
in the weeds
in the window
Julia Child
leona
lungs
no commercials
red flag
Romper Room
send-back
setup
slammed
squat and gobble
table from hell
to travel
VSOP
working
yesterday
   Bartenders
bang
behind thestick
on scholarship
potatoed
shrapnel

   See the web sites:

 http://www.dinermuseum.org/culture/culture-slang.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A890589
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US8/SPEC/hashhous.html
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   My work has involved important discoveries on some of the most important terms in this field:

"ADAM AND EVE ON A RAFT" AND THE ORIGIN OF POPULAR RESTAURANT SLANG ON THE BOWERY
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0311A&L=ads-l&P=R4213

"EIGHTY-SIX"
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0112E&L=ads-l&P=R609
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0201B&L=ads-l&P=R3729

   Also, various terms, from "hot dog" to "BLT" to "mayo' to "graveyard stew."

Barry Popik
(leaving the country in a few hours)