Books on diner vocabulary?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Dec 14 15:11:31 UTC 2007


At 12/14/2007 10:03 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>Jack Smiley's _Hash House Lingo,_ 1941, if you can get your
>hands on a copy.

Probably not -- not even ABEbooks or Alibris have it.  (I could
borrow it from Harvard, but I was thinking of it as a gift.)

Joel

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