Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 15:28:39 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: miscellany, lexical



Kathleen O'Neill writes:



Lastly, is the person who doesn't know what a hot dog "all the way" is for

real? Is this an idiosyncracy or are there other wisconsinites with the same

gap (bill?)...



Ellen JOhnson



Terribly sorry, Ellen, but I never heard the term "all the way" used to

mean "with everything [on it]" until that posting.

I'm in Chicago, after all, and if ya want a hot dog here, ya better ask

for it "loaded" or "with the works," or even "with everything."



As at the hot-dog stand at the Zen monastery, where the standard order is

"Make me one with everything".



Larry