DC-area "joning"

[Jim Parish]

Wilson Gray wrote:
> Thanks for the info, Ben. Good catch! BTW, if anybody else watches the
> re-runs of That '70's Show, what's called a "burn" on that sitcom
> corresponds quite closely to what is / was called a "jone" in Saint
> Louis and, presumably, in DC.

"Burn", both verb and noun, was common usage in my Scout troop in
San Diego in the early '70s.

Jim Parish

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