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