boom

[Bill Palmer]

Sounds definitely weird, but apparently "boom" is just an extension of
something like "rope"

On an oil-related note, the fire chief in Cleburne TX, being interviewed on
CNN yesterday concerning the well fire there, referred many times to the gas
that was coming from the "popline"...typical of W Tx?


Bill P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Doyle" <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:48 AM
Subject: boom


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> Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> Subject:      boom
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> Have we discussed the fact that, in the speech of perhaps half of the TV
> reporters, commentators, and "experts" discussing the Gulf of Mexico
> catastrophe, the word "boom" has become a mass noun? "We need to put out
> more boom"; "Boom has been employed ineffectually"; etc. Sounds really
> weird to me!
>
> --Charlie
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