European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 20 the stars and Stritt Buckey Boot Ling around and i i dodgy Leo Sanders does a Little Boot Ling on the Buckey sharking the Bright lighters five generations of Leo Sand ers family have lived in and the coastal California Valley town of where oils have been harpin1 Boon or speaking the local for dose to a Century so when a Brig tighter City Dweller pikes toe 100 Miles up from san Sanders acts As unofficial spokesman and historian for his fellow at toe i aled dubs its users a contraction of Boonville is an endangered linguistic a Rural dialect once spoken by nearly everybody who lived there but now known to Only a handful of the thousand or so Resi who at is a Boonville dodgy or elder traces the origins of the Lingo to the hop Fields of nearby Bell hop picking was a family and in the Days before whole fam Ilies would move right Down to the hop Fields and Camp there during picking time in said his Edna Sand with children working the hop Fields alongside their the adult Harvest ers invented a jargon As a medium for Pri vate gossip deemed unfit for Young this jargon became born Vulles relative isolation and self sufficiency until the 19303 helped to Nur Ture its specialized Sanders today the town Dill has a population of Only up until mall and came into the Valley by and tie Young Fellows used to anther at the station and talk about the in this Hugo they unit was fun to the fool that around anytime the locals amused themselves by coining new trying to shark each according to Charles chair Man of the English department at califor Nia stale College at and author of boo Luno an american the Genius of Boot Ling lies in its specialized word Boomers say bal or perhaps because the old Ball Brand shoes were considered to be the Standard of some words were borrowed and adapted from Spanish for sugar from the Spanish porno Indian for and Sells wee for Small As Well As Many expressions from american Folk local characters and anecdotes have further enriched the for sex a Camp Cook called always brewed potent so bowlers Call Coffee Jeese in his because a local woman named nettle Wallace always swathed herself in boosters say that one who affects fancy dress is to Embarrass in Boon Ville is to Charlie after a local Indian named Charlie Ball who was Quick to both whig ii enlivened by a healthy dose of notch or Tab which about is per cent of the according to Adan us but the study Auer that Boonville we no sinkhole and the Lingo was not conf we to the the notch Harp less were indeed a kind of Pioneer euphemism for a sensitive by unavoidable like the american pioneers who delighted in yarn Boonville Folk made their word fests a local an internal pan of their social Sanders at dances there was plenty of Hornin and i Stern drinking and and when the Boonville baseball team played a neighbouring they speak to their teammates in thing Boot Ling also had a colourful political a politician from the capital at Sacramento was called a from the Gold a biblical allusion to who sold his Birthright or a there is no word for electricity in but just the new words Are being coined As civilization Sanders said when hippies discovered Mendocino county in the for exam the Boomers dubbed than Pokey a literal rendering of Flower at the height of lit usage us and boo Atung was probably by everyone in Wmk perhaps Sanders end the migration from Arkansas and Oklahoma in the 1930s flooded the Valley with and the influx of commercial lumber interests in the Cimfe further diluted the tight Little Boonville society who could you Harp Sanders new to betimes by Erma Bombich Atwi Send i wish when a to set would the Wood would the rollers would fall the paint on the knobs would Chip and it would Star to you  eel so guilty about getting but our set looks so great and Majestic As it stands there in the Ellving inches of shiny mahogany topped off by a bowl of fresh the Only thing wrong with when it Blonic woman jumps with it is Over a build Iii be on going Canon looks like a ballpoint pen and Laverne and Shirley need a not Only the picture will occasion ally go into a spin and you expect to an Orange and two cherries lock into place when it the other when we Wen watching the three my Hus band skied dogs wrong with that picture and i cant put my Finger i think because Jaclyn Smith looks like Raymond that it he is it possible we need a new set already in afraid fifteen years Fly when youre having the new set was Only a matter of select ing and having it the problem is How do you dispose of an out Tvett 1 called my daughter at her hour would you like an extra to set is it the one that makes John Wayne look like Woody Allen it has a Beautiful ill i called my son at How would you like your own to set h it portable u depends on How Many of you an there to lift maybe we could keep it in the Span 1 told my ill bet if someone is they could ii it you sold hat about toe one in each the the garage and the the old one of the porch is even beginning to thank