Date:  Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:22:08 -0500

From:  "Jerry (NMN) Miller" <miller[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEWTON.FRANKLINCOLL.EDU>

Subject: Re: Derivation of Jake



Okay, so Jake/Jacob became associated with toilets; how then did Jake, the

toilet, become a slang synonym for okay or all right, as in "everything is

Jake," a term I remember from my youth but my younger colleague (early

thirties) never heard of? Or did that come pouring out of the bottle with "jake

leg" rum?



Just curious.



Jerry (whose slangs uses we probably already are aware of)