Sunday, March 29, 2009

I Love It When You Talk Retro



I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech by Ralph Keyes. You can read an interview with Keyes here.

From the interview:
I was surprised to find out that there were no "secret decoder rings." There were secret decoder pins, but no rings.