"carmageddon" -- word of the weekend?

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 13, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> Closure of I405 in Los Angeles from Friday night July 15 through 5:00
> a.m. Monday July 18.

Make that "the 405", as correctly conveyed an hour ago on ABC's World News (which included the info that Jet Blue had offered flights from one side of LA to the other for, I believe, $4--all immediately sold out of course.

LH
>
> (I see there earlier was a "graphically violent
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_combat_game>vehicular combat
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game>video games produced by
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_Games>Stainless Games,
> published by
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay_Entertainment>Interplay and
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Enix_Europe>SCi. It was inspired
> by the 1975 cult classic movie
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_2000>Death Race 2000."  Wikipedia.)
>
> Joel
>
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