Track Pizza

[Wilson Gray]

On Apr 22, 2005, at 11:20 PM, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> TRACK PIZZA
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> Does anyone have anything on "track pizza"? Will it be in the next
> HDAS? It appears to be someone who throws himself or herself in front
> of a train, becoming a bloody mess ("pizza"). It appears to be from
> NY.
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> (GOOGLE & GOOGLE GROUPS)
> London Underground Map, Tube stations & lines - where to find the ...
> ... are more deadly than banana skins, though not as lethal as
> suicidal "one-unders" (or "track pizza", to use a "lovely" piece of
> New York Slang). ...
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"One-under(s)" with the relevant meaning gets fewer than 200 Google
hits.

-Wilson Gray

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> The New Yorker: Fiction
> ... I should have been a railroad-track pizza, a double Indian
> pepperoni with ... Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New
> York, North Carolina ...
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> ... A friend of mine who lives in NY now was home for the weekend and
> we always watch
> new movies that ... But there ARE no cool kids, they're fucking track
> pizza! ...
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> ProbeTalk.com Forums
> ... believe this snack is so good and so good for you!" LF
> Hurleyville, NY But wait ... When
> i had tunersnacks instead of chips or track pizza i dropped my 60 foot
> form ...
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> Bing bing bing (was Re: subway suicide)
> ... instead of announcing the fact that someone has become track
> pizza, although "next ...
> edu Daniel Case Prodigy: WDNS15D State University of New York at
> Buffalo ...
> alt.folklore.urban - Jul 10 1993, 3:06 pm by Daniel B Case - 38
> messages - 30 authors
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> (FACTIVA)
> Art and Books - Tubular hells Iain Sinclair revels in the subversive
> ideas of one who pounds the platforms.
> By IAIN SINCLAIR.
> 801 words
> 7 April 2001
> The Daily Telegraph
> 3
> English
> (c) 2001 Telegraph Group Limited, London
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> Tunnel Visions:
> Journeys of an
> Underground Philosopher
> by Christopher Ross
> 178pp, Fourth Estate, #12
>  You will learn about the jumpers ("track pizza"), the cardiac victims
> with spat-out false teeth, the care-in-the-community wanderers of
> passageways.
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> COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC: WHERE DID BARRY POPIK EAT?
> COPPOLA'S on Third Avenue, near 27th Street. Not related to Francis
> Ford Coppola. I thought I'd try some Italian pasta before Passover. I
> ordered some ravioli and it was good, but $22?? For like five pieces?
> $12 for a slim piece of eggplant appetizer? I was told that the place
> is good for desserts, and my $7 dessert was the best part of the meal.
> At about $50, one of my most expensive meals, OK but expensive.
>