"round our way, 'cemetery'is a three-syllable word with the accent on the first syllable."

Is it pronnounced differently in other places? I've been trying, but it's pretty difficult to knock it down to just two syllables. Certainly, it can be done, but it doesn't sound that much different.

Walrus - too true, too true.

And lest you all think I'm brilliant, the Buddhist Hamburger line comes from Spider Robinson an SF writer of whom I've had the fortune to get drunk in the presence (or something like that....)

I still haven;t been aboe to think of weird American names for food. The only thing that comes to mind is "diner speak" the alternate terms for meals used at the great American diner. "Adam & Eve on a raft & wreck 'em" would mean scrambled eggs on toast.