Rochambeau game (YAMBO); My Book (continued)

[Wilson Gray]

On Oct 19, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> YAMBO
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> Craig Kilborn, formerly host of The Late, Late Show, played a game
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> YAMBO with some of his guests. Perhaps people were thinking of this?
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> MY BOOK
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> Perhaps I've confused S.O.S. with S.O.L. Sorry.
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> Someone just gave me an article about Turducken. I've written about
> this.
> It's not in the book.
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> Let's try jimmies/sprinkles. Nope, not in my book on American food.
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> "Food Songs." Perhaps the most famous one is "Oh where, oh where has my
> little dog gone?" about the ingredients of the hot dog. Not here.
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> "Thousand Island Dressing." 1916. Why did I even bother to post
> anything?
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> "Waitron." Should be here under "slang" or an article on food servers.
> Nope.
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> "Soda drinks." Surely, there will be an American speech map of "soda"
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> "pop." But there's nothing! "Pop" isn't even in the index.

In a Kroger's in Ann Arbor, MI, I asked a clerk where the "cold soda"
was. Looking a little confused, he led me to the Arm & Hammer. After a
brief discussion, the clerk understood, saying, "Oh. You mean "cold
*pop*!"

-Wilson Gray

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> Gotta go to the Oxford event right now. I'll try not to seem too happy.
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