End of ADS-L Digest - 13 Apr 1994 to 14 Apr 1994

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There are 7 messages totalling 218 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. ink pen (2)

 2. "basement"

 3. I guess weren't not in Kansas anymore, Todo (3)

 4. Call for Papers -- APLA



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Date:  Thu, 14 Apr 1994 22:18:48 -0700

From:  THOMAS L CLARK <tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEVADA.EDU>

Subject: Re: ink pen



On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Rudy Troike wrote:



> Tom--

>     Did you ever hear "atomic pen"? On the border in South Texas right

> after the war, advertising seemed to link ball-point pens with the ultramodern

> technological surge typified by the atomic bomb. In Mexico, they are still

> called "plumas atomicas", but I don't know whether the Valley usage was a

> leak-over from Mexico, though I doubt it.

>     --Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)

>

Rudy, I'm keeping this gem intact for our resident "atomic" expert, a

woman in poli sci dept who has collected every imaginable song and

gimcrack from "The Atomic Cafe" forward. I gave her my matchbook from

the Mizpah (!) Hotel in Beatty, near the Test Site, which advertised the

local specialty, the Atomic Steak.

tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada.edu