>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:09:29 -0400, Kathryn Huxtable wrote   
   (in article ):   
   > On 2010-09-13 11:01:05 -0500, Doug Freyburger said:   
   >    
   >> Dave Hayslett wrote:   
   >>> Joseph DeMartino wrote:   
   >>>> Amy Guskin  wrote:   
   >>>    
   >>>>> In what sense?  I grew up with them, so I'm fine with the name.  My   
   >>>>> husband, who hails from central PA, always has to add, "But there's no   
   >>>>> egg, and there's no cream!"   
   >>>    
   >>>> Have you broken the news about "baby oil" to him, yet?  ;-)   
   >>>    
   >>> Also Girl Scout cookies.   
   >>    
   >> And lobster sauce!   
   >>    
   >> Wild rice is domesticated.  It parties hearty.   
   >>    
   >> The ones that fail to match either name like egg cream are still more   
   >> fun to me.  Pineapple.  Buckwheat.   
   >    
   > The "Holy Roman Empire". I think it was Voltaire who pointed out that    
   > it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. There should be a word    
   > for such things... Maybe there is. <<   
   It's funny, because several of these ‹ the peanut, the Holy Roman Empire ‹    
   were also pointed out by Linda Richman, host of Coffee Talk (Cawfee Tawk),    
   one of Mike Meyers' bits on SNL.   
   Amy "a little verklempt"   
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