Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!cromwell From: cromwell@pur-ee.UUCP (Cromwell) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America Message-ID: <2444@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 14:41:31 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.2444 Posted: Sat Dec 15 14:41:31 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 03:36:04 EST References: <598@asgb.UUCP>, <4799@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 15 Being from the southern part of Indiana (between Bloomington and the river) I had always gone to church pitch-ins on one sunday night a month. I thought nothing of it until I read an article (Smithsonian magazine, I think) that said that "pitch-in" is only used in southern Indiana. So, does anyone else out there recognize this term?? It means what some people call a "put-luck dinner", I think. A pitch-in is where everyone gets together and brings one dish of food, and it gets put all together on one table, which everyone then takes from, smorgasboard style. Occaisionally I will ask someone to "reach me the x" instead of "hand me the x" and get some strange looks, too. But, that one is probably more widespread. Bob Cromwell