Rubberneck

[Grant Barrett]

>On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, it doesn't seem to be in the OED.  This term
(as
>> either "rubbernecker" or "rubbernecking") is one I'm also
familiar
>> with from as far back as I can recall, but since I'm also
from NYC &
>> suburbs that doesn't add much.  But pace Alice, while
>rubberneckers

For me, rubbernecking will always be apart of two phrases from
two different states: "Traffic's delayed due to rubberneckng on
the Bee Queue Eee" from New York City and "Rubbernecking on Seventy
and thunderboomers on the way; the news in two minutes in ten
minutes" from a small radio station I used to work for in Missouri.

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