Coined Words -- Was Congested Pedestrians

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri May 4 14:05:07 UTC 2007


At 5/4/2007 09:55 AM, Doug Harris wrote:
>I like condestrians. The same concept: Crowdestrians.

Crowdestrians -- a murder (or perhaps better, a mob) of crows
crossing the street at the middle of the block or against the light,
and holding up the automobile traffic.

I haven't ever seen this, but I have seen gaggles of Canada
goosedestrians locally.

Joel

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