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Jerry Poulimas got his first "slanguage" lesson eight years ago, when a customer plopped down on a lunch counter stool and said, "Gimme some Joe."
"I thought the guy thought my name was Joe, and I told him it wasn't," says Poulimas, who was 15 and working after school in his parents' diner. "No," the guy said. "Joe. You know, coffee."
Poulimas, who now manages the family-owned Angela's Coffee Shop in the Fort Tryon section of upper Manhattan, still hasn't mastered the arcane lingo of the hash house. But, he says, he's picking it up, one crazy, colorful term at a time.
"It's a language that's close to extinction," says John Mariani, a New York food writer who once compiled a list of the most popular patois used by diner cooks and waiters, and authored The Dictionary of American Food and Drink.
Once, diners rang with calls for cackleberries (eggs), axle grease (butter), Zeppelins in a fog (sausages in mashed potatoes) and bossy in a bowl (beef stew).
Slang now? "It's like Latin, a dying language," says Mariani.
There are several reasons, among them the disappearance of the brassy, sassy waitresses and countermen who made the colorful jargon part of their working routine during its heyday in the '30s, '40s and early '50s.
At several diners around New York, managers said, employes don't use slang, partly because there is no one to teach it, but also because orders to cooks are increasingly complex and thus require more exact terminology.
And some slang has gone mainstream — among it, O.J., BLT, stack, mayo, over easy, hash browns, sunnyside up and blue plate special.
Tradition is just hanging on at Angela's, where Poulimas was shouting an order as a reporter walked in. "Whisky down," he yelled to cook Gus Delos. "And it's walking." "That's rye toast to go," he translated.
Diner slang has been around a long time. In 1852, a newspaper in Detroit printed some examples, and by the 1870s, black waiters made it popular. After World War II, soda jerks — another term that later crossed over into popular use — and drive-in waitresses added more terms. But by then, it was a fading fad.
"I didn't know any of this until the cooks told me," says Poulimas, who started working for his parents when he was 11. "They told me to learn it to minimize confusion."
One specialty at Angela's is the rice pudding that his mother makes every morning. What do the waiters call it?
"Rice pudding," says Poulimas. "Some things you don't screw around with."
- Bill Bell (The New York Daily News)
The Lingo
Adam and Eve on a raft, and wreck 'em: Eggs on toast, scrambled.
A spot with a twist: Tea with lemon.
Axle grease: Butter.
Belch water: Seltzer or soda water.
Birdseed: Cereal.
Blowout patches: Pancakes.
Blue-plate special: A dish of meat, potato, and vegetable served on a plate (usually blue) sectioned in three parts.
Bossy in a bowl: Beef stew.
Bowl of red: A bowl of chili con carne.
Bowwow or Coney Island chicken: A hot dog.
Breath: An onion.
Bridge or bridge party: Four of anything, so called from the card-game hand of bridge.
Bullets or Whistle Berries: Baked beans.
Burn one, take it through the garden and pin a rose on it: Hamburger with lettuce, tomato and onion.
Burn the British, and draw one in the dark: English muffin, toasted, with black coffee.
Cat's eyes: Tapioca.
City juice: Water.
C.J. White: Cream cheese and jelly sandwich on white bread.
Cowboy: A western omelet or sandwich.
Cow feed: A salad.
Creep: Draft beer.
Deadeye: Poached egg.
Dog and maggot: Cracker and cheese.
Dough well done with cow to cover: Buttered toast.
Drag one through Georgia: Coca-Cola with chocolate syrup.
Eighty-six: The kitchen is out of the item ordered.
Eve with a lid on: Apple pie.
Fifty-five: A glass of root beer.
First lady: Spareribs.
Fly cake or roach cake: A raisin cake or huckleberry pie.
Frenchman's delight: Pea soup.
Gentleman will take a chance or Sweep the kitchen: Hash.
Go for a walk or On wheels: An order to be packed and taken out.
Gravel train: Sugar bowl.
Graveyard stew: Milk toast.
Hemorrhage: Ketchup.
High and dry: A plain sandwich without butter, mayonnaise, or lettuce.
Houseboat: A banana split made with ice cream and sliced bananas.
In the alley: Serve as a side dish.
Irish turkey: Corned beef and cabbage.
Jack Tommy: Cheese and tomato sandwich.
Java or Joe: Coffee.
Looseners: Prunes.
Lumber: A toothpick.
Maiden's delight: Cherries.
Mike and Ike or The twins: Salt and pepper shakers.
Moo juice: Milk.
Mud or Omurk: Black coffee.
Murphy: Potatoes.
Nervous pudding: Jello.
Noah's boy: A slice of ham.
On the hoof: Meat done rare.
Paint a bow-wow red: Hot dog with ketchup.
Pittsburgh: Meat charred on the outside while still red within.
Put out the lights and cry: Liver and onions.
Radio: A tuna-fish-salad sandwich on toast.
Sand: Sugar.
Sea dust: Salt.
Sinkers and suds: Doughnuts and coffee.
Vermont: Maple syrup.
Warts: Olives.
Whisky down: Rye toast.
Wreath: Cabbage.
Zeppelins in a fog: Sausages in mashed potatoes.
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In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
Follywood Productions One Year Anniversary Party at Fiery Ron's Home Team BBQ in West Ashley on 25 January 2011.
(l-r) Reid Stone (Guilt Ridden Troubadour), Stratton Lawrence (Po'Ridge), Elise Testone (Slanguage), James Justin Baker (JJ&Co.), Campbell Brown (Gaslight Street).
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
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In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
For those not familiar with Aussie slanguage, "servo" is a service station (petrol station in Britan, or gas station in the US).
For those familiar with service stations, petrol stations and gas stations, this may not be what you'd expected - it wasn't what I expected, but then this is Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland in 1988 and I was a pom. Strictly cash only.
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
The SLanguages 5th Conference 2011, sponsored by Languagelab.com. The conference theme for this year is 'Serious Games' and 'Situated Learning'.
Shiv Rajendran, Chief Operating Officer of Languagelab.com, standing on the left hand side in the snapshot, presenting on "the added value Languagelab can bring to your company". He provided interesting information on who? and when? people actually go to learn English at virtual worlds, in addition to benefits of learning English at virtual worlds for business people and companies.
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
Thousands of miles away, driving home after working the
Graveyard Shift as Night Auditor at the Homewood Suites
Hilton in Clear Lake Texas. I reached my front door and was
about to turn the key when my next door neighbor told me in his
most sober voice, "They done rammed a plane into that big
office building in New York" in his normal Texas Slanguage.
I staggered in already tired, turned on the TV and left it on till I
went back to work that night at 10:30 pm. Only overnight work
fatigue drove me to shut my bleary eyes that fateful day.
One of the last things I did before leaving the NY/NJ area
5 years earlier was to drive a Limo to the front doors of
Building No.1 of the World Trade Center. The VIPs that I
drove to and from the Twin Towers often arrived by Private
Jet around 7:30 am and by 8 am we were at their usually
scheduled meeting inside the WTC. They remained inside till
early afternoon and I then drove them to their hotels or
sometimes back to their Private Jet or Helicopter. In the interim
between 7 am and 4 pm I ate breakfast, drank lots of Coffee,
smoked lots of cigarettes and strolled around the area, often
shooting the breeze with the numerous other Livery drivers
parked all around and under the area of the WTC.
Our clients were Stockbrokers and CEOs at all the major
financial institutions like Chase Manhattan, Merrill Lynch,
Bank of America etc., and they paid handsomely to keep
us booked all day when all we did was barely an hour's worth
of actual driving for them.
The pic above was not a B/W shot originally. I decided to present
it that way to convey how it contrasts with the original.....read the rest here:
In this session, Edmund Edgar (Edmund Earp) and Fire Centaur (Paul Preibisch) discuss how the Avatar Classroom can connect your Moodle Quizes, assignments, and online competitions to your Virtual World Classroom.
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
That's me (Buth) sitting and listening to Shiv's talk.
Thanks, again, Shiv for your informative talk. And, thanks to Alan England, Director of Corporate Relationships of Languagelab.com, for inviting me to the useful session at the SLanguages Conference 2011; see more info at avalon-project.ning.com/page/slanguages-2011
Love, Friendship, & Peace!
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
Taking the test, if you get wrong answers your quiz chair goes down a level until you are immersed in the ppol where sharks await you!
Taking the test, if you get wrong answers your quiz chair goes down a level until you are immersed in the ppol where sharks await you!
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
For the first event of their three-month Engagement Party residency, Slanguage brought "Psychicinema Multiplex", their ongoing series of film screenings, to MOCA. For this iteration, Slanguage presented films in order to respond, in part, to the museum’s landmark 1992 exhibition "Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s". In assembling these works and creating a carnival-like environment for viewing them, Slanguage sought to reexamine the dissonance and dark side of the psyche, Los Angeles, and the art world, pushing those ideas further by addressing Los Angeles’s polarization and presenting visions for its future.
Aeromads is an itinerant housing prototype to be installed in various locations throughout Los Angeles over six weeks. It will incorporate a wide range of programs and ideas, hosting children's art workshops at Slanguage, Canoga Park Youth Arts Center and the Watts Tower Arts Center; fostering interaction with the city during a 24-hr stop in a downtown parking lot; becoming a house within a house at the MAK center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler house; tested for sustainability as a dwelling during stays in urban parks, campgrounds, and the desrt, and for its ability to float in the ocean; and acting as a surrealist projection surface and bar for the closing party at TELIC. - Alexis Rochas
To find out more: sciarc.edu/aeromads/
Taking the test, if you get wrong answers your quiz chair goes down a level until you are immersed in the ppol where sharks await you!
Top: DeForestRanger AKA Snark
Bottom : Sharon Drummond AKA Jabberwock
In a pig’s eye!” This week, Jabberwock and Snark will attempt to photograph a well-turned and commonly used phrase-of-choice in such a manner that our intent is clear to the viewer without having to read the title. The phrase may be a metaphor, simile, by-word, buzzword or any other grammatical construct as long as it is easily recognizable as something from mainstream colloquial speech (“talk to the hand” would be pushin’ it a tad, since it is largely sub-culture slanguage). Landscape orientation, please, and keep your “language” colorful! Otherwise, you have a blank slate, an open book, an empty canvas…
Run, don't walk, over to jabberwockandsnark.gimblemimsy.com to see what the devil was going on here.
Taking the test, if you get wrong answers your quiz chair goes down a level until you are immersed in the ppol where sharks await you!
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
Taking the test, if you get wrong answers your quiz chair goes down a level until you are immersed in the ppol where sharks await you!
Taking the test, if you get wrong answers your quiz chair goes down a level until you are immersed in the ppol where sharks await you!
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
Taking the test, if you get wrong answers your quiz chair goes down a level until you are immersed in the ppol where sharks await you!
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage presented Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance examined the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance featured poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.