Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 08:41:42 +0800
From: elliot mcintire vcgeg002[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HUEY.CSUN.EDU
Subject: Re: [p*tut] and more
On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
Baloney is still in use for nonsense or empty talk; I've never
heard "baloney sauce." I use "shank's mare" occasionally, but
am conscious of it as an archaism.
I hear "Baloney" from time to time, but have not heard "baloney sauce"
since I was a camp counselor in the early 60s (except as a kind of in
family joke since my wife counseled at the same camp).
Shank's mare was used occasionally by my father, now long deceased, but
somehow he conveyed that he recognized it as an archaic usage even then.
Elliot McIntire
emcintire[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]huey.csun.edu