Re: [DL] Old West grammar/etymology question

[Horace Black <horaceblack@yahoo.com>]

  What's a Ronco Dial-A-MaticT Food Slicer and where
can I get one:)
                             Horace Black

--- Nick Zachariasen <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu> wrote:
> > that's great..but....
> > what the heck's a "gewgaw"
> 
> It's just a "thing". You could apply it to a
> unicycle, a Gatling pistol, or
> a Ronco Dial-A-MaticT Food Slicer. It would seem to
> be on its way to
> becoming archaic if it's not considered so already.
> 
> Nick Zachariasen
> Editor Emeritus
> Trojan Times


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