Limited Time offer: 'Camaggedon' T-shirts - latimes.com

[Wilson Gray]

"Carpocalypse" and "Aparcalypse" have also been seen/heard.

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:08 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I suppose, the guys can now claim that the spelling was intentional. Your
> mileage may vary (except on the 405).
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> VS-)
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> Is it "Carmageddon"? Or "Camaggedon"? Doesn't matter, said Glen Greenberg.
>> Either way, he and his pals were making brisk sales of novelty T-shirts at a
>> gas station in the San Fernando Valley.
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>> "It was all intentional," Greenberg said of the unusual spelling that
>> doesn't quite meld the words "car" and "armageddon." "The word doesn't
>> exist, so there's not one right way to spell it."
>>
>> More than that, he said, his and his pals who printed up several thousand
>> shirts wanted to encourage a double-take, showing how everything is messed
>> up, a wink to what's happening with the 405 Freeway.
>>
>> The group, selling the T-shirts for $10 apiece, promised to send $1 from
>> each sale to Make-A-Wish Foundation. That's no joke, said Greenberg, who
>> described himself as a childhood cancer survivor. The 27-year freelance
>> fundraiser from Calabasas plans to add "I survived the 405" T-shirts to the
>> offering for sale over the weekend.
>>
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