Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 15:23:48 -0800

From: Anton Sherwood dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM

Subject: No subject given



Wayne Glowka asks:

What did you call that stuff that aunts brought to Thanksgiving dinners in

the 60s and early 70s: it was a mixture of jello, canned fruit, some cool

whip, and maybe some coconut all whipped up in a blender. Sometimes it

was horrible shades of light green. I always lied about how I tried it and

loved it.



Sounds akin to Mom's "strawberry bavarian". (I liked it.)



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Alecia Holland passes this on:

this line from the song "Goober Peas." (When the farmer passes, the

soldiers have a rule; to cry out at their loudest, "Mr., here's your

mule.")

What does the phrase mean? Mr. Wiley doesn't explain it, which makes me

wonder if it is impolite



Conjecture:

During the War Between the States, it was rumored that each freedman

(if Lincoln won) would receive forty acres and a mule. Rebels might

well wonder, where are they going to find all those mules?



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Bruce Gelder asks:

Does anyone know of a good prescriptive reference book that tells which

prepositions go (or are supposed to go) with which verbs in American

English?



Last time I was in the Mother Country, I almost bought an Oxford dictionary

of phrasal verbs (put on, put up, put out, put over, put in). Would that

be too unAmerican for your purposes?



*\\* Anton Ubi scriptum?