Elvis in a Cheese Sandwich - 9 March 2009

[Portions of this episode were first broadcast November 1, 2008.]<br/><br/>Apple core, Baltimore! Ever play the rhyming game where you eat an apple, then shout 'apple core,' and then the first person to respond 'Baltimore!' gets to decide where (more specifically, at whom) the core gets tossed. This old-fashioned game is hours of fun for the whole family! We promise.<br/><br/>'A fish stinks from the head down.' When an Indianapolis woman is quoted saying that, she's accused of calling someone a stinky fish. She says she wasn't speaking literally, insisting that this is a turn of phrase that means 'corruption in an organization starts at the top.' Who's right?<br/><br/>Dude, how'd we ever start using the word 'dude'? The Big Grantbowski traces the word's origin--it's over 125 years old. Here's a poem about dandy dudes from 1883 <http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/dude/>, the year the word zoomed into common use. Ben Zimmer at Visual Thesaurus also has a very good summary of what is known about 'dude.' <http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1534/><br/><br/>Quiz Guy John Chaneski drops by with a puzzle involving overlapping words. He calls it, of course, 'Overlap-Plied Linguistics.'<br/><br/>If you're hung over, and someone offers you a little 'hair of the dog,' you can rest assured you're not being offered a sip of something with real dog hair in it. But was that always the case? Grant has the answer, and Martha offers a word once proposed as a medical term for this crapulent <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=crapulent&r=66> condition: veisalgia.<br/><br/>A new resident of Pittsburgh is startled by some of the dialect there, like 'yinz' instead of 'you' for the second person plural, and nebby for 'nosy.' For a wonderful site about the dialect of that area, check out Pittsburgh Speech and Society <http://english.cmu.edu/pittsburghspeech/index.html>.<br/><br/>If someone says he 'finna go,' he means he's leaving. But finna? Grant has the final word about finna.<br/><br/>Good news if