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["Joe Komenda" <joe AT komejo.com>]

A BBQ war?

    What ever do you mean?

        Perchance that in the South,
    the noun is properly applied
        to a vinegar-based pork product,
    and in other locales,
        it is applied to the grilling device itself?

    Whereas, the *verb* BBQ,
       is unknown hereabouts,
    and in all other locales,
        means application of any food
    in tomato-based sauce
        to a grill?

    What could be clearer? Except,
        that those who *prefer*
    the tomato-based sauce,
        and use the term as a verb
    are egg-suckin' heathen...


Joe K



----- Original Message -----
From: "K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Nitpicky correction [sic]


> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, tengu typed, not wrote:
> ->< Though aren't all corrections nitpicky?
>
> Too true
>
> ->< RDU is the airport - It's like calling Chicagoland "O'Hare."
> ->< This following statement was right on:
> ->> Carrboro: Where you go if you want Chapel Hill style living, the
Chapel
> ->Hill school district and cheaper houses.
> ->< Though the listing should read Chapel-Hill-style, as it's an
adjectival
> ->phrase.
>
> Note that the town name remains the same, as in "Chapel Hill-style",
> without the first dash between "Chapel" and "Hill" - you wouldn't say
> "New-York-style" since "New" and "York" are a singular part of a
> name. Now, "bar-be-que-style" *is* correct (though god PLEASE don't let
> this start into a BBQ war...) since bar-be-que is an accepted variant of
> "barbeque".
>
> ObGeekContent: Surely others have seen this, but a nifty site nonetheless:
> http://www.studiomotiv.com/counterspace/
>
>
> Cheers
> KJ
>
>
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