Dear PD Rooters: I hope you will accept and enjoy a couple of PD-isms that came into our family lore not too long after the turn of the century in Caledonia, MI, which was settled by a lot of transplanted PD-ers from Lancaster County via Waterloo County, Ontario. My grandparents had a roomer named Gottlieb Minkus. He was very fond of listening in to the party line telephone as an evening's entertainment. It was not long before the others on the party line became aware of this, and would often make pointed comments about Gottlieb, just to get his goat - which it did. He would get more and more agitated and finally burst out with "Ja, Ja, lay it all to Gottlieb" - which then became the family saying for "All right, blame it all on me, why don't you?" Gottlieb also contributed the second saying. At the dinner table his habit was to tilt the platter and slide the food off on to his plate. Four generations later this is still known as "Minkusing" or (to) "Minkus it off" by our grandchildren in Lexington, KY and Chattanooga, TN. Allan E. Green