Now You're Cooking with Gas - 23 June 2014

<p>This week on "A Way with Words": Some of us can't go anywhere without a book or something to read. And one fast food joint hears you: Chipotle is now printing the work of famous writers on their paper cups. Speaking of fast food, saying that someone is “two plums short of a Happy Meal” is one way to joke that they're not quite up to snuff. Plus, every first grader plays that little flute known as a "recorder"—but haven't you always wondered why it's called that? Plus, a word quiz for the summertime, South Carolina lingo, flout vs. flaunt, silent B's, a rare word for worry in the wee hours, and a big congrats to the Class of 2K14!<br /><br />FULL DETAILS<br /><br />You haven't played in the mud until you’ve done it in South Carolina, where a particularly fine, silty mud is called pluff.<br /><br />In the 1930's, the catch phrase Now you’re cooking with gas, meaning "you're on the right track," was heard on popular radio shows at the behest of the natural gas industry, as part of a quiet marketing push for gas-powered stoves.<br /><br />If you can make neither moss nor sand of something, then if you can't make sense of it. This phrase is particularly common in Northern England.<br /><br />If someone is two plums short of a Happy Meal—or more commonly, two french fries short of a Happy Meal—they're they're not playing with a full deck. In fact, such good-natured teases are sometimes called fulldeckisms.<br /><br />The class of 2014 is totally hooked into the future, which is why they're writing Class of 2K14 in their Snapchats.<br /><br />Our Quiz Master John Chaneski has a seasonally appropriate game based on the first concert he ever attended: The Beach Boys' "Eternal Summer."<br /><br />Count on the Germans to have a picturesque term for a pout: Schippchen, that face you make by sticking out your bottom lip, comes from a word that means "little shovel."<br /><br />In South Carolina, if someone offers you a broadus or something for broadus, say "Yes, please!" It's a little extra something a store clerk might gi