End of ADS-L Digest - 7 May 1994 to 8 May 1994

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Uh oh. I screwed up and lost the digest for May 9. 

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There are 23 messages totalling 477 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. case knife

 2. SECOL y'all (2)

 3. y'all (9)

 4. case, DARE, Georgetown

 5. Anymore...

 6. case (2)

 7. Case Knife

 8. case quarter

 9. Case quarter and Al Futrell

 10. Does Anybody Have Yesterday's Digest? (3)

 11. question



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Date:  Mon, 9 May 1994 07:52:35 EDT

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: case knife



My parents used the term--mainly my father--for the blunt, pretty much

useless knives that came with the flatware. I always figured that the name

had to do with the fact that the knives came in a case or chest with the

other utensils. He grew up in Weimar, Texas, a settlement of Czechs and

Germans. His paternal grandmother's people were Germans. He used case

knives as screwdrivers, chisels, and hot irons for melting plastic

together. Consequently, our case knives always had peculiar bends, twists,

and burns in the points.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu