Date:  Sat, 6 Apr 1996 12:30:03 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subject: No smathering in Birmingham



A belated response to an old discussion: my Birmingham, Alabama colleague

just responded that he did not know the term, but felt it was being used

much as his family had used <slathered>.



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