"carmageddon" -- word of the weekend?

[Tom Zurinskas]

I'm sure I saw "karmageddon" somewhere, which reads like really bad karma.

Tom Zurinskas, first Ct 20 yrs, then Tn 3, NJ 33, Fl 9.
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> Poster: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject: Re: "carmageddon" -- word of the weekend?
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> At 7/13/2011 08:02 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >On Jul 13, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > > 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
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> Isn't it "also" Interstate 405? It is so labelled on
> http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/06/405_freeway_closure_july_16_17_traffic_los_angeles_subway.php
> (and I'm not familiar with West Coast dialect).
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> >(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.
> 
> Does that mean that LA has a North Side and a South Side? Do they
> have rumbles on Nov. 5? This year will they burn effigies of Arnold
> having a letter A on his outermost garment in a contrary color?
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> Joel
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> >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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