> M Forstater wrote:
>
> << "what the hell are jimmies?! nobodies used that word for twenty
years!"
> tell me it's a regional thing, please.. >>
>
> It's a regional thing. Are you from New England? Every kid in
Massachusetts
> knows what jimmies are--I just had to pull my kid away from some in
the
> grocery store. Sugar and food dye. Yum. I think it said "Jimmies" on
the
> lid. But the term was never used in Michigan, where I grew up.
>
> Re funky names: Joyce The Voice (her legal name) is running for
> alderman-at-large in Somerville, MA.
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So how come we admit the capriciousness and playfulness of naming each
other, but when it comes to
naming/temporalizing/historicizing/periodizing social and natural
kinds we foam at the mouth?
"It's a soda" "No, it's pop" "Let's fight about it" "Bully" "Meany"
Ian