X-zilla

[Geoff Nathan]

Margaret Winters tells me a radio station in Philadelphia ran contests(in the mid seventies) for the largest pothole in the city and called it the search for 'pot-zilla'.

Geoff

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Geoffrey S. Nathan
Department of English/Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, 48202
<geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
Phones:  C&IT (313) 577-1259/English (313) 577-8621

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