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Look under recipes for dog & polish.

um, i don't think you meant "perplexed" , so though you could have used it over nonplussed, it wasn't apparently what you wanted to say anyway.

you wrote "looking bored and non-plussed" - i see this useage all the time - in context you apparently meant "looking bored and underimpressed" or something - but not perplexed.

and though noplus means "perplex", it just isn't the word you wanted, is it? saying that you could have used "perplexed" gets you nowhere in that "perplex" and "nonplus" are synonyms. i think you really mean, "i could have used a totally different word more suitable to my intent".

now, how i get astounded or astonished...well, i agree that "perplex" and "astound" are not exact synonyms - my bad there. appropriate synonyms are "baffle", "mystify", etc - but again, you can't say that people look both "bored" and "bewildered" can you? it isn't what you meant...

this sort of "nya nya you misused a word" thing is indeed dull. yet i think words=ideas and to misuse them repeatedly will indeed undermine the word's value. you are not alone in using nonplus incorrectly and really using it to the opposite of its meaning. i find it all the time in magazines (recently in flaunt). and though it doesn't matter at all - it would be great if you used it correctly in the future.

here's the hyperdictionary link to nonplus:

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary?define=nonplus

Doggo..agreed about the lettuce, but I have seen it and they had it at this event. Also it is true about the ketchup. As for the earlier comment by my copy-editor regarding nonplussed -- I think I could have said perplexed. In context I put it poorly. But how you get to "astounded" or "astonished" is beyond me insofar as the definition is concerned.

Edited by author 06-16-2003 05:10 PM
No sane person puts lettuce on a hot dog. The rest of the Chicago ingredients stand:
dog
bun
onions(chopped)
relish (bright green, I've seen two brands selling locally in da Jewels)
mustard
tomato wedges(2)
pickle spear
sport peppers(2)
celery salt

My two favorite places: Wieners Circle, 2622 N Clark (Clark and Wrightwood)great fries for your ketchup; and SuperDawg, 6363 N Milwaukee Ave.

This was my favorite post in the guestblog so far. No real point, but kind of weird and poignant and ironic ... and stuff.

the most important thing to mention about a true chicago style hot-dog is that there is to be no ketchup involved. some of the stands in town don't even offer ketchup for the fries, lest some knucklehead gets ideas about putting it on their hotdog. strange but true.

John,

Seems to me you're not exactly up to date on your African-American celebrities. The "black comic who does the '7-Up YOURS' commercials" is Orlando Jones (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Jones,+Orlando) who's been in plenty of movies, not to mention a few years on MadTV. And the "hottie" blogger from your post a week or two ago? Grammy Award winner Alicia Keyes. Not necessarily obscure personalities..

John - you're a writer: "You also load up an event like this with gorgeous girls, models and dancers from LA and have them roam around looking as bored and non-plussed as possible unless there is a photo-op when they turn on the charm with a canned hot look."

nonplus

Main Entry: 2nonplus
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): non·plussed also non·plused /-'pl&st/; non·plus·sing also non·plus·ing /-'pl&-si[ng]/
Date: 1591
: to cause to be at a loss as to what to say, think, or do : PERPLEX
synonym see PUZZLE

this word does NOT mean "unimpressed" - but the contrary - possibly "astounded" -

FYI - could be good to know this since you're in the word-smith biz.

Re: Daniel Pinkwater (/m7) - Lizard Music is his best, even better than the stuff in 4 and 5 Novels. If anyone deserves to be a multi-millionaire for writing "kids" books, it's Pinkwater, not that Harry Potter woman.

Geez, doesn't anyone reading this come from Chicago?? Broom has it mostly right:
1. Steamed bun
2. Beef hot dog
3. Chopped onions
4. Unnaturally screaming-green pickle relish (that I can't find anywhere else in the stores)
5. Pickled, green, hot peppers - long, thin ones that look like tabascos (and might be)
6. Yellow American-style mustard (i.e., the bland stuff)

BUT it's quite common to find lettuce and tomatoes on these Hot Dogs in Chicago. AND there is also a pickle spear. At the party they had pickle slices (a gaffe), The other key is that the sausage is from a company called Vienna. The pepper is a sport pepper and using two is traditional. Also you shake some celery salt over the thing. It's often been described as more salad than hot dog.

If you want missapplied pizza ingredients, guess what they give you in addition to parmesean cheese and hot peppers in Mexico?

Catsup. On perfectly good pizza. [shudder]

Since Americans eat catsup on "everything", and Pizza is American....the logic just is WRONG!

Edited by author 06-14-2003 12:33 AM
To mix two off-topic threads: You mean pizza isn't supposed to be like this? I thought this was what Chicago-style pizza was all about.

For the record, anyone who can't deal with feta cheese and dried apricots on their pizza is a wuss. We grow real men and women out here in California, secure enough in our Personal Pizza Identity to eat anything a chef can stack.

On topic: Stupid magazine, stupid party.

Off topic:

Pizza: Don't even get me started on the stuff they put on 'pizza' here in California! Dried apricots? Feta cheese? A whole chicken leg (with bone) and barbecue sauce (I swear, I saw it once!) Corn! I'll take corn any day over, say, green salad with ranch dressing! Corn is small potatoes!

You may want to be sitting down for this.