Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 22:23:00 EDT

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

Subject: Hot as...: a late entry



While the derivation from Tophet is quite compelling, consider the following

possibly related datum (conveyed by Barbara Abbott of Michigan State U.):





My mother always said "Hot as tunkit". But she never told us what tunkit

was, or how hot it was. Or how to spell it either. She grew up in

Freeport Ill.



anyone for tunkit?



Larry