IVing IV, shake & bake, p. 292, Calling Ishmael again?

[Mark Kohut]

Yeahp....Googled with the "and " sign not the word.....

You makin it look easy......thanks again....

- On Fri, 12/4/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: IVing IV, shake & bake, p. 292, Calling Ishmael again?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 10:43 PM
> On Dec 4, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Mark
> Kohut wrote:
> 
> > p. 292 "early-morning shake-and-bake on Tariq's
> block"
> 
> Looking at these etymological listings, "Shake & Bake"
> should be an activity that's either easy to pull off or at
> least easy to give the impression that it is:
> 
>     shake and bake: noun Definition:
> 
>     quick impressive move: a quick
> impressive move against an
>     opponent, especially in basketball (
> informal )
> 
> http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561536452/shake_and_bake.html
> 
> Alternately,
> 
>     Noun: shake and bake (uncountable)
>     • Something fast, or easy to use or
> perform; a simple, crude
>     object or action.
> 
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shake_and_bake