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