On 10/14/2004, Mark Thorson wrote:

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>By the way, the mallet is a "kine", not a "thekine".
>The latter is a mispelling that only appears on
>Cynthia Wong's mochi page. Note that there
>are many missing spaces on that page.

Thanks. When I originally saw the TV show that featured this,
they referred to this so quickly that I missed the precise names
of the utensils and the mochi, but I could recall them phonetically.
SO, I went to the net for more info and came up with Cynthia's page. Since I
believe everything I read on the net, I took her info as gospel. Guess I was
Wong.

I run a notebook on my computer in which I save incidental items
of trivia (maybe trivia isn't the right term, but - you know, things
not of universal, worldwide, pressing, five-alarm fire urgency) may-
be in case I'm on Jeopardy someday. I put thekine, usu and
mochi in there. Time to do an edit.

Got to run. Got to get those potatoes out of the washing machine.